The Cabinet Member for Environment presented a report on proposals for the procurement of contracts for planned highways maintenance works and street lighting.
The Cabinet Member advised that the immediate plan is for the London Borough of Havering to act as lead authority on the procurement of joint contracts, and for the Council’s current contracts to be extended until 31 October 2011 while the joint procurement is being progressed. The future plan is to let these contracts under the auspices of East London Solutions, which is an initiative led by Capital Ambition and involving the six London boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Newham, Redbridge, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest, but it was noted that this would not be possible until 2014 at the earliest due to the other Borough’s current contractual commitments.
Agreed, in order to assist the Council to achieve improved value for money through joint working, to:-
(i) The procurement of new contracts for planned highways maintenance works and street lighting over an initial two and a half year term commencing 1 November 2011 with an option to extend for a further two and a half years, subject to satisfactory performance, under a joint arrangement with the London Borough of Havering who will act as lead authority; and
(ii) The Council’s current contractual arrangements for planned highways maintenance and street lighting being extended to 31 October 2011 to coincide with the proposed procurement timetable.