North West Centre of Excellence

News Update

Week Ending 6th May 2005

New Assistant Director at the Centre

We are pleased to announce that Miranda Carruthers-Watt joined the team at the Centre on 5^th May.  Miranda has been seconded to the post of Assistant Director Corporate/Collaborative Services.  Her previous role was Assistant Director, Rights, Advice and Entitlements at Blackburn with Darwen.

Wigan leads the way on the procurement of Refuse Collection Vehicles in the North West

Wigan has agreed to be the lead for the procurement of Refuse Collection Vehicles in the North West and work is just about to start on establishing a baseline position. We’ve had a number of local authorities expressing an interest in being part of the workstream but if you haven’t expressed an interest and would like to join the group please contact Bev Brooks at the Centre bev.brooks@tameside.gov.uk

As part of the initial work a baseline questionnaire is being circulated to all Local Authorities to try and size the RCV market in the North West and also look at the various contracts that people are tied into and also the duration of that contract.

One of the first objectives of the group is to put a framework agreement together for RCV’s but as time progresses it is expected that this will be developed further to include:

Other vehicles e.g. Lorries, Vans and Cars and develop appropriate framework agreements for these.

And then

Examine the potential to work collaboratively to deliver fleet manage transport solutions between and on behalf of other authorities.

e-Procurement Workstream – change of date

The next meeting of this workstream will now be on the 24th June not the 20th June as stated in the last news update. If you are currently not a member of this workstream but would like to be involved please contact shelley.taylor@tameside.gov.uk More information will be available in due course.