📋 Tender Overview
It follows a decision by the Department for Transport to discontinue the PFI programme, with the council recently agreeing a two-year contract extension with Kier to maintain the citys highways and deliver essential services across the road network.
The councils ambition is to prevent where possible damage to highways in the first place and reduce wear and tear.
As well as being less costly in the longer term it will mean better looking neighbourhoods that communities can be proud of.
Cllr Rob Grant, cabinet member for transport, said: The state of the citys roads and pavements is one of the key concerns for residents. Potholes and uneven footpaths not only cause damage and can be dangerous, but they also have a detrimental effect on neighbourhoods.
I know people take pride in where they live and as a council we want to support communities to continue to do that, and a street that is in good condition will in turn make residents and visitors more likely to keep it clean and look after it.
The contract covers highways and footways maintenance, emergency repairs, street lighting, drainage and arboriculture works, winter maintenance services, and traffic management.
It covers more than 2,500km of road, 5,000km of footways, 846 structures, three tunnels, 94,000 street lighting columns and 76,000 highway trees.
A PS10m scheme to upgrade street lighting for more than 17,000 lights was also recently agreed as part of the highways maintenance priorities, changing them to LED, reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions and encouraging walking and cycling in the night-time environment.
As well as replacing lighting on the key traffic routes, the programme will also focus on estate roads and footpaths which typically make up the majority of the start and end of peoples journeys.
The report was approved by cabinet on 8 September.
