Flood and Coastal Risk Management (FCRM) Operational Framework - South East Hub

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We are the Environment Agency. We protect and improve the environment. Acting to reduce the impacts of a changing climate on people and wildlife is at the heart of everything we do. We reduce the risks to people, properties and businesses from flooding and coastal erosion. Please find details regarding the role of the Environment Agency and the work that we undertake at https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/environment-agency This document describes what we need to achieve and how we plan to do it. Currently we rely on a number of national and local arrangements (contracts and frameworks) to deliver our works in relation to our capital and revenue programmes. Our national framework, WEM (Water and Environment Management), expires in July 2019 and there is already a different project team looking at the replacement of that arrangement. The future of WEM (or NGSA) falls outside the scope of this operational framework. The purpose of this framework is to put in place a contractual arrangement that is fit for purpose for delivering low value civil engineering projects and packages as well as routine maintenance works. The North, Central and South West hubs have already begun this future arrangement. Incorporating approximately 30 of our previous arrangements and frameworks covering a wide range of services – minor (civil engineering) works, culvert inspection and clearance, vegetation management, tree works, main river maintenance, pest control and soft engineering and river restoration works. The structure and approach we have settled on reflects the need to be more efficient in the way that we operate as well as making the arrangements easier for both the Environment Agency and our successful suppliers. Lot 1 - Small scale civil engineering and maintenance works (including culvert inspection and clearance) Lot 2 - Routine maintenance, vegetation management and pest control Both lots will require emergency / incident response capability.