1. Celebrations & Aspirations
MHA Term Working Group
Stewart Corbett
Chair

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. Our Progress - Reviewed
Average 16% Improvement

7. 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

8. 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

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

10. 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

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