Procurement models for road maintenance.

Author(s)
Porter, T.M.
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Abstract

The author has been directly involved in the evolution of the maintenance of New Zealand's road network as it moved from the "one stop shop" approach of the New Zealand Ministry of Works in the early 1980's, to the current position, based on complete funder/provider separation, with all services being provided by a fully contestable market. He has also observed developing practices in a number of other countries including Australia, the United Kingdom and Canada. The paper draws on the author's experiences to: define the various roles in the management of a road network and how the procurement models impact on the road controlling authority's residual roles and responsibilities; discuss the evolution of maintenance contracts as they have moved from initially being essentially "input" based, then to "output" based and now, increasingly, "performance" based; outline the predominant models now being used in New Zealand and the author's thoughts on their applicability; and illustrate some of the benefits of contracting out and discuss some of the difficulties encountered. For teh covering abstract of this conference see ITRD number E211426.

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C 42744 (In: C 42681 CD-ROM) /10 /60 / ITRD E211490
Source

In: Transportation : investing in our future : proceedings of the 2005 annual conference and exhibition of the Transportation Association of Canada TAC, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, September 18-21, 2005, 13 p., 3 ref.

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