To approve contract awards for 4 contracts listed below to enable the Council to carry out essential highway maintenance of existing carriageway and footway surfaces:

A1.1 Surface Dressing and Micro Carriageway Surfacing
A1.2 Footway Slurry and Carriageway Micro Hand Patching
A1.3 Carriageway and Footway Retread
A2 Carriageway Structural Resurfacing

Resolved – That

(1)  the Director of Neighbourhood Services be authorised to proceed with procurement exercises with a view to appointing, in each case, a contractor to deliver the following essential highway maintenance works on a 3-year contract:

a) the A1.1 Surface Dressing and Micro Carriageway Surfacing contract.

b) the A1.2 Footway Slurry and Carriageway Micro Hand Patching contract.

c) the A1.3 Carriageway and Footway Retread contract.

d) the A2 Carriageway Structural Resurfacing contract; and

(2)   the Director of Neighbourhood Services be authorised to appoint in each case the preferred tenderer on the basis of the most economically advantageous tenderer criteria.