Procurement advice for highways and infrastructure teams

The UK produces almost 400 million tonnes of waste per year. A third of this waste is construction, demolition and excavation waste, and wastage allowances represent over £1.5 billion value of construction materials. Clients for highways projects can drive change and reduce waste by setting procurement requirements which the whole supply chain can work towards achieving. The cost savings, landfill avoidance and carbon benefits of this action are significant.

The Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) have been working closely with a number of local authorities to help their highways teams change their procurement documentation and ask for good practice in waste reduction. The changes to procurement documentation are undertaken by WRAP entirely free of charge and a document with tracked changes is returned to you for comments or amendment as appropriate. As a Government-funded body, WRAP will provide complete confidentiality.

Click here  for a guide to setting procurement requirements to improve resource efficiency.

Whether you have a framework contract for streetworks or are tendering a PPP or other long-term contract, the use of the WRAP model wording is an excellent way to drive both cost savings and better sustainable practice from your contractors and suppliers.

For further information on this or any other aspect of sustainable procurement, please contact our programme manager for procurement eddie.gibson@improvementeast.gov.uk or T: 01284 8310