Term Contract- Highways Minor Works- PGP2019/727*

The Term Contract is primarily to be used by the Place, Growth & Prosperity Directorate to undertake individual schemes including works on and off the highway, drainage, bridge and structural maintenance and Landscape schemes. The work to be executed under this contract is spread over a number of sites within the City, each site providing a separate Task Order.

Routine bridge maintenance works may include for an order being raised for a number of sites grouped together, where they are in close proximity to each other. There is no guarantee that the works to be carried out over the contract period will be continuous or evenly distributed throughout the contract, or that work will be instructed against each and every item.

The total quantity of work the Contractor will be required to undertake is dependent on the forthcoming financial allocations during the period of the Contract. However as a guide, and whilst not guaranteed, it is anticipated that the successful Contractor may be offered 30 to 40 schemes with a total value of up to £4,250,000 per annum of works from this Contract. .

In addition up to £2million over the contract duration may be offered to the following public sector organisations:- . Stoke-on-Trent City Council; Unitas Stoke Ltd; Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council; Stafford Borough Council; High Peak Borough Council • Staffordshire University; University of Keele • Staffordshire Fire & Rescue; • Staffordshire Police; • University Hospitals of the North Midlands; Stoke-on-Trent Clinical Commissioning Group; North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust.

The types of work anticipated are indicated in the tender documents but no guarantee will be given that work will be carried out on any particular aspect of the service during this contract. Works will include construction or improvement works, on or off highway, drainage works, including Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS), soft and hard landscaping and routine Bridge maintenance and structural maintenance schemes generally ranging from about £3,000 to £800,000 in value. An additional one-off task order for a scheme value of up to £2million could also be issued in addition.