Celebrations & Aspirations MHA Term Working Group Stewart Corbett Chair

The Term Working Group has progressed and achieved many excellent results in the last 10 years. And is fully intending to continue in the years ahead. Save time and money for members through collaborative working and procurement Enable members to achieve best practice and continuous improvement in highway maintenance The following are some highlights of our journey and how we continue to achieve and exceed our objectives Introduction MHA East Midlands local highway authorities with common interests in improving performance and making efficiency savings in the delivery of highway services working in collaboration. Our Term objective was: To establish, implement and develop a continuous improvement model for highway term maintenance to achieve convergence to best practices

Our Journey Focused training and knowledge sharing Best Practice Review Transformational Route Map Introduce the CI Cycle Developed the initial RSGM Toolkit Write the Term suite of Contracts Form the Community Board CONVERGENCE IMPLEMENT Carry out improvement pilots and case study Re do - Best Practice Review Improve the DfT questionnaire Identify Best Practice Alliance SHARING HTMA HMEP

Levelling The Playing Field Embedding Best Practice Principles Include the above Levelling The Playing Field Embedding Best Practice Principles Cost Vs Price Incentivisation Collaboration & Sharing Target Costing Transformational Route Map Robust Improvement Efficiency Cycle

Strategic Guidance and Rationale Manual Outcomes: Collaboration & Teamwork; CI; Realising efficiencies and innovation; VFM; Disseminating information; Updating of skills Use example form w/shop July 17 Strategic Guidance and Rationale Manual A living document Records and documents with rationale, the journey the group has taken so far. Includes: Lessons Learnt Case Studies Incorporates: The group drivers and required outcomes The Best Practice principles The process or toolkit to deliver the principles Implementation packages Strategic Guidance and Rationale Manual Term Maintenance

Our Progress - Reviewed Average 16% Improvement

Alliance Support Common Suite of Contract Documents On from the route map the development of the common term suite of contracts pre HMEP – HMEP Plus Trailed at Lincs, Nottinghamshire, Rutland, MK and DC and NC Alliance Support Term Contract Common Suite of Contract Documents Single TMC (NEC) converts into SLA Framework Contract Common KPI’s - Developed with input from the HTMA A group of KPI that can be measured in a “like to like” manner by all members Allows for direct comparison providing alliance focused support and inter- authority support

Alliance Support DCC Pilot £350k Savings Dissemination and Sharing Derbyshire £ 340k On 10k investment DCC Pilot £350k Savings From 10k investment Dissemination and Sharing Pilot improvements Managing Programme Change Reactive works delivery Outcome specific Improvement case studies Focused workshop forums DfT funding support

Outcomes Savings Generated to date Procurement £2.2m Collaboration & Sharing £4.1m £6.3M

What’s Next Continue to strengthen : Collaboration Open and honest Transparency Efficiency Pilots in progress Target Cost process improvements Reactive works incentivisation Toolkits developed Annual Cultural Framework

Finally “To Improve is to Change; to be Perfect is to Change often” Winston Churchill Help support our members to achieve it Thank You