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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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Developing performance specifications - Consultation response analysis report, January 2004
Background
The Highways Agency (HA), in April 2003, issued a document entitled "Developing Performance Specifications: Consultation Document" to organisations and individuals currently and previously involved in the management of the motorways and trunk roads in England and Wales.
This document was the third of the three linked consultations in respect of developing new and/or improving the existing policies for procurement and forms of contracts.
The first consultation released in December 2002 aimed at making improvements to the DBFO contract and introducing the principles of early contractor involvement into the delivery process. The second consultation relates to introducing private finance into operation & maintenance contracts such as the managing agent contracts (PFMAC).
The Developing Performance Specifications document, the third in the series, put forward options for widening the use of performance specifications, not only in private finance contracts but across all forms of procurement and sought to obtain views on the proposals presented and any other ideas to improve the procurement process. This document provides detailed analysis of the responses received.
The consultation process also included follow-up interviews with a number of respondents and a series of internal HA workshops to consider the results and identify a way forward.
