Road Surface Treatments Term Contract

Tender description

Halton Borough Council Intends to Procure a Contract for Road Surface Treatments for five years to cover the period May 2017 to March 2022 with the options available to the Council to extend the Contract for up to five periods of 12 months each. This Road Surface Treatments Term Contract will be open for St Helens MBC to utilise subject to agreement by Halton Borough Council. The contract has no guaranteed quantities, works orders will fluctuate according to demand and available budget. End dates of current contracts for each named Local Authority/organisation and estimated annual expenditure have been provided for information purposes only. Where such estimates are provided they are genuine good faith estimates based on historical usage intended to assist the tenderer in the preparation of their offer, but offer no guarantee of future usage. In the case of St Helens MBC, whilst they wish to have access to the contract at the current time they are unable to commit, thus it is possible they may choose not to place any works orders through the contract. For the avoidance of doubt the term ‘Council’ used in the paragraph below refers to Halton Borough Council or St Helen’s Council if they chose to utilise this Contract. The contract does not form a monopoly arrangement. The Council can at any time choose to place orders for works or services covered by this contract with other suppliers of such works or services. Placing of orders for items outside the contract will be entirely at the discretion of the Council and its officers and the Council will not be bound to account for any such decisions to the contractor. The Council is not committed to any maximum or minimum expenditure through the Agreement, and does not commit to maintaining current, or any level of spending. Any indicated Agreement value is based on historic data and subject to fluctuation both through demand and budgetary variation, figures are provided for illustrative purposes only. The successful Contractor is required to : 1. Liaise with the Employer’s Representative(s) to maintain and improve the Council’s highway assets by the application of the most appropriate surface treatments. 2. Assess the asset condition, decide the most appropriate treatment to extend the assets life, develop and agree annual works programmes and preparatory works with the Employers Representative(s). 3. Use his expertise in designing / selecting the material / treatment process for each location / asset to be maintained. 4. Work with the Employer in partnership to preserve and extend the whole life highway assets in the Borough of Halton. Only those companies who are fully Sector 7, Sector 12B and D and Sector 13 compliant will be considered for this opportunity. The following are also mandatory requirements of the Contract: 1. Proof of operatives undertaking traffic management being Sector 12 LANTRA Qualified and Registered. This applies equally to subcontractors who must also satisfy this requirement. 2. Proof of RSTA endorsed CSCS cards in line with NHSS Sector Scheme 13 for operatives applying road surface treatments. This applies equally to subcontractors who must also satisfy this requirement. 3. Proof of CSCS cards in line with NHSS Sector Scheme 7 for operatives undertaking the installation of road markings and road studs. This applies equally to subcontractors who must also satisfy this requirement. . Keywords: Road, Road Surface Treatments, Highways