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Changes to PartnerNet
PartnerNet is now served from a new Our Partners area of the HA website. Further changes are planned to improve the way we deliver information to our partners.
The Project Control Framework
On 1st April 2008 we launched the Project Control Framework. The Framework sets out how we, together with the Department for Transport, manage and deliver major improvement projects.
Efficiency Gains from Collaborative Roads Procurement
Delivering efficiency and best value is central
E-procurement
Issue
To support government targets for carrying out procurement and business electronically.
Objectives
To ease the burden and cost of tendering on industry, to improve communications and document control, to help make financial controls and reporting more efficient and to support performance measurement and reporting.
Actions
Work opportunities with the HA will continue to be advertised on the HA's website and new procedures will be introduced to make the information more reliable and comprehensive.
E-tendering systems will be introduced to achieve efficiencies in purchasing low value goods. Opportunities will be sought to enter into collaborative arrangements with other government departments to obtain better value for money through increased purchasing power. The use of electronic catalogues and the Government Procurement Card will be extended.
On construction and other highway-related procurement, e-tendering systems will be piloted using packages specifically developed for civil engineering projects. This will provide greater control of communications during the tender period.
Electronic project collaboration tools will be used to improve communications during project implementation and also to support the development of partnering throughout the supply chain. The use of these tools to support performance measurement and benchmarking will also be explored.
The HA's recently acquired electronic supplier database will be used to maintain records on firms and to support the selection of tenderers. It will be linked with the information available through ConstructionLine to ensure that the amount of information that needs to be submitted with individual tenders is kept to a minimum.
Information on best practice and lessons learnt from individual projects will be made available electronically in the form of post-project reviews, project experience notes and HA advice notes.
