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(Report of the Director of Place and Sustainability. To be introduced by the Cabinet Member for the Environment). The report seeks approval to enter into a contract for highways and street lighting works over the eight year term.

Exempt information pertaining to the report will be considered under Item 22.

Cabinet considered a report, introduced by the Cabinet Member for the Environment, which sought approval to enter into a contract with Ringway Jacobs, the LoHAC contractor for the North East sector, which would allow call offs to be made for highways and street lighting works over the eight year term.

In response to a question from Cllr Allison regarding that cast-iron street lighting be conserved rather than replaced, the Cabinet Member for Environment advised that this would be looked into.

Exempt information was considered under agenda item 22.

RESOLVED

i)             That a contract is entered into with Ringway Jacobs, the LoHAC contractor for the North East sector which allows call offs to be made for highways and street lighting works over the 8 year term of the LoHAC framework.

ii)            That a call off contract under the LoHAC framework for the Green Lanes Corridor Scheme is entered into.

iii)           That call-off contracts under the LoHAC framework for term maintenance and planned schemes for highways and street lighting are entered into as follows:

i)             A one-year call-off to deliver the Sustainable Transport Works Plan and planned works for 2013/14.

ii)            A three year call-off for reactive highways works.

iii)           A three year call-off for street lighting maintenance and gully cleansing.

iv)           That the Cabinet Member for the Environment is granted delegated authority to finalise additional call-offs under the LoHAC Framework for the OLF Public Realm improvements in Green Lanes and the TfL funded Major Scheme improvements in Wood Green High Road.

Alternative options considered

The Sustainable Transport Works Plan for 2013/14 proposes an investment of more than £16m on sustainable transport works.

Haringey’s current term maintenance contracts with Volker Highways expire at the end of June 2013, so a decision on how to deliver the 2013/14 plan in the most efficient way needs to be made.

In late 2012 TfL announced the successful contractors appointed to the London Highways Alliance Contract (LoHAC). LoHAC created four regions in London where the appointed contractor for that region would provide maintenance services on the TfL Road Network and also be available to London Boroughs within the region to call off works. Haringey therefore has this additional option to consider.

Haringey is in the North East LoHAC Region with Enfield, Waltham Forest, Barking and Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge. The successful contractor for the North East Region is Ringway Jacobs.

Initially the following five different options were considered:

1.    Re-procure the service.

2.    Extend the existing contracts with Volker but negotiate discounts on rates and improved performance measures.

3.    Enter into the LoHAC Framework for all works.

4.    Enter into the LoHAC Framework for one year and re-procure the service for the second-year onwards.

5.    Use a combination of Volker by extending and LoHAC.

Transport for London (TfL) have also now instructed London Boroughs in receipt of LIP funding from 2013/14 that they must use the LoHAC Framework for schemes costing over £250,000 unless they can demonstrate that their own contractor would provide  ...  view the full minutes text for item 424