Decision details

The Street Works Contract will enable East Sussex County Council's Parking Services Team to provide an essential ancillary sign and line maintenance service so as to maintain safety, legality and enforceability, principally in the County Council’s Controlled Parking Area’s in Eastbourne, Lewes and Hastings. Reliable Maintenance Ltd, the incumbent supplier, submitted the only bid after a compliant procurement process.

It was decided that this contract should be awarded to Reliable Maintenance Ltd as part of a retender (Option 1) - they were the incumbent supplier and no other bids were received.

Option 1: Retender process

Option 2: Call off and existing Framework Agreement
Although ESPO has a framework for parking machine installation, there is not a suitable framework for line marking and maintenance services or a framework to cover both services in one Lot.

Option 3: Do Nothing
Do nothing is not an option as this contract is required to provide an essential ancillary sign and line maintenance service so as to maintain safety, legality and enforceability, principally in the County Council’s Controlled Parking Zones and Controlled Parking Areas in Eastbourne, Lewes and Hastings which in turn supports the Civil Parking enforcement contract being tendered separately.