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Moving Britain Ahead Making the Best Possible Funding Case Stephen Fidler June 2015 Local Highways Maintenance Challenge Fund 1
Moving Britain Ahead
Making the Best Possible Funding Case
Stephen Fidler
June 2015Local Highways Maintenance Challenge Fund 1
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One nation. One United Kingdom.
A one nation Government acting in the interests
of the whole country.
We will ensure that every part of Britain benefits from
a growing economy and that everyone who works
hard gets the opportunities they need to succeed.
History of under investment in infrastructure and
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The Department should use the
way it allocates its funding to
incentivise efficiency and
collaboration and it should not
fund poor performance.
The Department should identify
those local highway authorities
that carry out maintenance less
efficiently and target the
Highways Maintenance
Efficiency Programme at them.
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Launched by Andrew Jones MP
Parliamentary Under Secretary
of State on 12th June
£578m (total), 2015/16-2020/21
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In 5 categories:
• Asset management
• Resilience
• Customer
• Benchmarking & efficiency
• Operational delivery
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The Fund was designed to help maintain existing local highways infrastructure, where the asset is coming to the end of its lifecycle and needs urgent repair/renewal.
Including:
bridges, tunnels, retaining walls or other structures
carriageways (roads)
footways or cycleways
drainage assets
street lighting
a scheme which primarily covers one of the above categories but also includes some enhancement to the network to provide better access to housing and/or employment.
Minimum bid size = £5million.
Minimum local contribution = 10% of scheme cost.
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31 successful schemes.
From all English regions
Schemes announced
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Total funding
requested from
DfT =
£1.4billion
Funding available =
£275,000
147
bids
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availableWeighting
Total weighted
marks available
Value for Money 5 x3 15
Strategic Case 6 x3 18
Project delivery
timescales
3 x3 9
Local contribution 4 x2 8
Financial risk 3 x2 6
Governance 3 x1 3
Project planning 3 x1 3
Risk management 3 x1 3
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Kept to the word limits stated.
Used bullet points / short sentences to convey information.
Were clear what the problem was, and what solution was being
proposed for that problem.
Provided clear evidence on the problem and how the solution would
help.
Were able to evidence the scheme being good value for money.
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Submitted a clear project plan, in Gantt format, breaking down each stage into sufficient detail.
Were clear on project management roles and responsibilities, and how decisions would be made
Included a clear risk register that described, quantified and mitigated the top five project risks.
Showed that they had clearly considered and quantified
the key financial risks on the risk register.
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