Introducing the Contract
There are big changes taking place in the management and maintenance of the road network in north-west Scotland. TranServ have taken over the contract from incumbent contractors BEAR, who have held it for the last five years.
The Scottish Government, formally the Scottish Executive, who has put its road contracts out to tender since 1996, has three main objectives; customer service, value for money and effective management. It operates four distinct roads units across Scotland, of which the north-west is one, and includes 1,369 km of the trunk roads. The unit is expected to have an annual turnover of around £27m. The contract which began on 1 April 2006, after a mobilisation period of three months has a duration of five years, extendable to a maximum of seven. Transport Scotland, an executive agency of the Scottish Government, is client for this contract.
The scope of the contract includes:
- All routine inspections of the network, including safety and structural inspections
- Winter maintenance
- All routine and cyclical maintenance
- Structural maintenance of roads and bridges
- Road improvements
- Gully emptying
|
- Grass cutting and weed control
- Road lighting and traffic signal maintenance
- Cleaning traffic signs
- Carriageway and cycleway defect repairs
- Safety barrier repairs
- Road lighting faults
|
| Contract facts and figures |
- Scotland has over 3,300km of trunk roads, of which over a third of these are in the North- West region
- These trunk roads account for 7% of the total length of public roads in Scotland
- Over 2,300 structures in the contract
- Over 1,300 bridges including the Skye Bridge and Kessock Bridge
|
- Working with Highland Council, Argyll & Bute Council, Stirling Council, and Perth & Kinross Council
- The contract includes the A9 from Perth to Thurso, the A82 from Loch Lomond to Inverness, and the main arterial routes to the costal port links to the islands such as Wick, Ullapool and Oban
|
|