The Highways
Agency has today announced a new supplier recognition scheme,
aimed at recognising efforts by suppliers who demonstrate leading
performance in driving down costs and delivering even more
efficient and effective customer services.
The annual recognition programme will highlight the important
contribution made by the Agency’s suppliers, who play a vital role
in supporting the Agency in operating, maintaining and improving
the strategic road network in
England efficiently and
effectively. Entries for this year will be invited from 1
September 2011.
Suppliers including joint ventures, lower tiers, small and medium
enterprises and those from across all aspects of Highways Agency
business, are being invited to be recognised through a
non-financial award in five key business areas for the Agency:
-Managing down cost/improving value.
-Supply chain management.
-Health and safety.
-Building & sustaining capability.
-Delivering sustainable value and solutions.
Highways Agency Director of Procurement, David Poole said:
"We work in close partnership with all our suppliers and
want to recognise the important contribution they make towards
ensuring we together meet the diverse needs of road users and the
communities we serve.
"It is now more important than ever to develop better
and broader supply chain relationships and to demonstrate best
practice. We hope the recognition scheme will encourage a more
effective, professional, and diverse supply chain that can help us
to drive down costs and deliver even more efficiencies."
Companies working on Agency projects who would like to submit an
entry can do so between 1 September and 14 October 2011, with
planned announcement of winners and runners up taking place in
December 2011.
Full guidance and entry forms can be found on the Highways Agency
website at http://www.highways.gov.uk/business/32027.aspx
Notes to editors
1. The Highways Agency is an executive agency of the Department
for Transport. We manage, maintain and improve
England’s
motorways and other strategic roads on behalf of the Secretary of State.
2. Real-time traffic information for
England’s motorways and
other strategic roads is available:
- From the web at www.highways.gov.uk/traffic
or www.highways.gov.uk/mobile
if using a phone or mobile device.
- By phone from the Highways Agency Information Line on 0300 123
5000 at any time. (Calls to 0300 numbers will cost no more than 5p
per minute from a standard BT residential landline. Call charges
from other landlines and mobile networks may vary, but will be no
more than a standard geographic call and will be included in all
inclusive minutes and discount schemes).
- Before using any mobile, find a safe place to park. Never stop
on the hard shoulder of a motorway except in an emergency. Make
sure it’s safe and legal before you call.
- From our Traffic Radio service, available on DAB digital radio
and the internet at www.trafficradio.org.uk
To tune into the DAB service, simply press the
"scan" button on your radio. The radio will tune
into all available channels and you can select the new service by
scrolling through the channels until you reach "Traffic Radio".
- From Twitter on one of eight separate feeds with live traffic
information for each region. For the full index visit www.highways.gov.uk/twitter.
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