Essex County Council to discuss extension of Essex Highways partnership
News / Sat 22nd Feb 2020 at 12:41pm
ECC to discuss extension of Essex Highways partnership
ESSEX County Council’s Cabinet will meet next week (Tuesday 25th February) to discuss the approval of an extension to the authority’s current Essex Highways contract with Ringway Jacobs for another five years from 2022 to 2027.
In 2012, Essex County Council entered into partnership with Ringway Jacobs to upkeep and maintain its Highways division, looking after the 5,000 miles of roads, 4,000 miles of pavements, 4,000 miles of public rights of way, 127,000 streetlights and 1,500 highways structures such as bridges.
The recommendation points to the unrivalled industry expertise, internal buying power and technical excellence of parent companies Eurovia UK and Jacobs in improving roads, footways and highways infrastructure, as well as providing value for money.
The contract was initially signed for 10 years to 2022 and contained an option for Councillors to extend the contract for a further five years if desired.
Since 2012, the Essex Highways partnership between the County Council and Ringway Jacobs has delivered;
2,002 miles of road re-surfacing,
15,000 miles of roads inspected each year,
an average of 37,000 street lighting defects dealt with each year,
an average of 70 miles of pavements surfaced each year,
an average of 100,000 drains, keeping roads free from excess rainwater, cleaned each year,
an ongoing LED streetlight and illuminated signs conversion programme, and:
over 51,000 people following updates from the Essex traffic control centre.
Papers also highlight recent benchmarking against the wider market, which revealed work including road surfacing, pavement repair and maintenance and drain clearing work delivered by Ringway Jacobs for Essex Highways was significantly cheaper than alternatives across a range of activity.
Having continuously met performance and efficiency targets (claims Essex County Council), the partnership has also been recognised by the British Standards Institute, achieving BS11000 collaborative business relationship accreditation in 2014.
The Council’s Cabinet will be asked to approve the take up of an option to extend the contract for another five years, allowing investment in the network of approximately £700m over that time period.
Cllr Kevin Bentley, Deputy Leader of Essex Council and Cabinet Member for Infrastructure, said: “This is a healthy, robust working partnership, which is rigorously monitored.
“It is delivering improvement to the roads, pavements and cycleways of Essex and it is delivering savings to the taxpayers of Essex.
“I look forward to discussing the extension of the contract with my cabinet colleagues.”
jarrett
2020-02-22 12:53:51
and it is delivering savings to the taxpayers of Essex. Who are you kidding, i have reported various lighting and road defects a lot of which are within a few feet of each other yet they will only fix one of them, it must be apparent they work strictly to a job card or whatever rather than collating faults within an area. Its about time you got your act together Essex CC and stop telling us how well and how much you are saving.
m ingall
2020-02-22 13:24:20
Essex County Council take 85p in every £1 Harlow Council collects from the residents of Harlow in Council tax. This is to pay for services like repairs to roads, pavements and cycle tracks, street lights and libraries. With our roads, pavements and cycle tracks in disrepair. With our streetlights only on at night thanks to Harlow Labour Council paying additional money for the service and with libraries being starved of books and professional staff so that inevitably they will fall into disrepair and be closed, residents of Harlow are right to question if we are getting good value for money from the Tories in Chelmsford.
tenpin
2020-02-23 09:52:31
April 1st must have come early, surely Cllr Kevin Bentley cannot have visited Harlow in the last couple of years otherwise he would never be so bold to say what he has. Here, we have roads which are probably in the worse condition than they have ever been, pot holed in thousands of places, repairs that only last for weeks and even when wholesale resurfacing takes place, within weeks or months there is evidence of a breakdown in the road surface showing, As for the street lights, well apart from bollards which keep on flashing or don't work at all, whole stretches of lights on some of our main roads have been out for months recently. The parent company of Ringway Jacobs is called Vinci a French company working in over 100 countries, another example of a public service which has been put out to the private sector who can then skim off a profit. It can do this by cutting corners, not doing work to a decent standard and using inferior materials so that work done does not last long.
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