The Public Realm contract (September 2013 – August 2024) provides for the monitoring and reporting of a set of Strategic Performance Indicators (SPIs), with performance initially being self-assessed by the provider, Balfour Beatty Living Places followed by an audit undertaken by the Council’s Contract Management Team.
The contract model enables extension to the contract period for achieving acceptable strategic performance and total performance scores in each financial year.
The First SPI additional years review decision was taken in May 2018 and awarded a contract extension of 1 year to August 2024.
This second review concerns the subsequent three financial years namely financial years 17/18, 18/19 and 19/20 as detailed in Clause 31.1 -31.7 of the contract.
As part of this review, an independent assessment of the Contract Management Team’s findings is required in order to assure impartiality and correctness of the findings.
To secure an independent body to undertake this independent assessment, CMT have tendered through the Councils Portal. Three expressions of interest were received and one completed tender. The completed tender was deemed compliant. VFM is assured by comparison with the previous independent verification exercise undertaken in 2018.
The tender in 2018 was for one year’s worth of data assessment and was priced at 64% of this assessment. This assessment is for three years data, so value is assured by comparison
Following the tender process the contract for this work will be awarded to HKA and the cost of this commission of £4,200 will be funded from existing public realm budget (C07192)