The Future of Local Transport

Delivery Road Show 2011

Why Change

Dana Skelley – Director of Roads TfL

Transforming London Highways

Management

• Across London around £450m pa spent on

highways related activities, via c100 contracts

• Range of different specifications

• Range of rates for similar activities varies

considerably across the 34 London Authorities

• Scope for a better service at a lower cost

.

How? • Better utilisation of resources and skills –

Contractor & Client

• Clear links between service levels, cost and risk

• Minimum disruption through joint forward

planning and improved collaboration on area

works

• Better and more consistent customer experience

• Reduction in interfaces and the use of common

specifications

• Ceasing the constant state of retendering

Project Partners

• LoTAG

• London Strategic Procurement Board

• Sub Regional Procurement Groups

• London Councils (Capital Ambition)

• Efficiency and Reform Group (formally OGC)

• HTMA

And we are feeding into the National scheme HMEP

Structure

Project Sponsor

Martin Smith

Chief Executive LB Ealing

Joint TfL/Borough

Project Board

London Highways Alliance Contract

Newham

Lambeth

Enfield

H&F

Bromley

Hillingdon

TfL

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DfT

Contract

Development

Team:

TfL (3 FTE)

Enfield (1)

Haringey (1)

Lambeth (1)

Camden (1)Joint funding by London

Councils and TfL

Best value for money

from

available funding

Where we want to be

• Partnership thinking and working (“leadership”

and “ownership”)

• Understanding cost

• Orientation towards performance

• Promoting positive outcomes

• Long term thinking and planning

• Looking for wins at all levels – local, borough,

sub-regional, pan-London

Common Specification

Where we want to be

• Partnership thinking and working (“leadership”

and “ownership”)

• Understanding cost

• Orientation towards performance

• Promoting positive outcomes

• Long term thinking and planning

• Looking for wins at all levels – local, borough,

sub-regional, pan-London

Common Specification Benefits

• Reduce pallet of materials

• Reduced stock holding

• Reduced tender costs – both sides

• Reduced depots and empty mile running

• Reduced vehicles – currently London wide

maintenance fleet is estimated at 1500. We could

achieve a 10-20% reduction!

Programme• Development of a common specification contract

- London Highway Alliance Contract LoHAC

• OBCM

• e-auctions for commonly used services and

goods

• Supplier Relationship Development – SRD on

existing contracts

• Highway Management Systems

• Creating the Culture for Delivery

Supplier Relationship Development

• Working with existing borough suppliers

• Supplier and Clients have scored each other out

of 10 against a number of performance attributes

• Looking at work load planning

• Looking at current inspection regimes

• November publication of SRD best practice

document

Programme• Development of a common specification contract

- London Highway Alliance Contract LoHAC

• OBCM

• e-auctions for commonly used services and

goods

• Supplier Relationship Development – SRD on

existing contracts

• Highway Management Systems

• Creating the Culture for Delivery

Questions?