Disabled Driver Questionnaire
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Better information for your journey
The National Traffic Control Centre collects real-time information on road conditions.
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.
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Research and Development Supply Chain Community - Consultation Document, December 2003
What we want to do and how we will do this
We want to apply the Procurement Strategy principles and the Community concept to our R&D and Technical Consultancy work. In particular, it is considered that R&D has the potential for significantly better value by the early involvement of research suppliers in the development of projects, allowing greater scope for innovation.
We intend to implement a rolling programme under which our existing frameworks and discrete contracts will be replaced by a smaller number of wider ranging, longer term and higher value framework contracts with fewer suppliers.
The expectation is that a number of prime suppliers will provide the majority of the work through their supply chain arrangements. However, it is recognised that small and medium sized suppliers also provide a valuable resource and can offer better value on appropriate projects. We would expect smaller firms to be employed through the supply chain but it would be possible to include a number of smaller firms on a framework, or give consideration to a separate specialist framework.
The Agency will work with suppliers to achieve continuous work flows within budgetary constraints. This will create an environment which will enable supplier's performance to be measured against the Agency's Headline Key Performance Indicators which are :
- Client satisfaction - Product
- Client satisfaction - Service
- Predictability - Cost
- Predictability - Time
- Defects
Suppliers performance against these indicators will be used to help inform work allocations and to facilitate activities such as best practice and knowledge share. Best value will be achieved when the right team is working to clear objectives and supported by quality, measurement and benchmarking control mechanisms. Each framework will have a Framework Board which will primarily have an allocation and monitoring role.
The framework contracts will include an informal Partnering Clause. The expectation is that payment for work will be on an actual cost and / or target cost arrangement. The revision of rates under the contract will be applied annually with reference to the Average Earnings Index.
There will be two evaluation stages for the procurement of the frameworks. The first stage will concentrate on the capacity and capabilities of potential suppliers by seeking answers to questions that will provide information that is consistent with that required by the Capability Assessment Toolkit. The second stage will concentrate on those aspects of quality which enable a supplier to demonstrate that it can add real value to the product or service.
As each new supplier is appointed we hope that they would be willing to join the Community.
