Highways Agency: Contracting for Highways Maintenance - Public Accounts Committee Contents

Supplementary memorandum to the Public Accounts Committee following the Evidence Session on 2 November 2009 on contracting for highways maintenance

  This memorandum responds to the requests for additional information to questions put to Graham Dalton, Chief Executive, Derek Turner, Director of Network Operations and Stephen Dauncey, Director of Finance on 2 November 2009.

Question 64 (Mr Curry): asked for our top five contractors by value of work over the last five years

	2004-05		2005-06		2006-07		2007-08		2008-09
Rank	Name of supplier	£m	Name of supplier	£m	Name of supplier	£m	Name of supplier	£m	Name of supplier	£m
1	Amey Mouchel	166	Amey Mouchel	186	Amey Mouchel	178	Amey Mouchel	189	InterRoute	161
2	Carillion Highway Mtce	59	InterRoute	79	InterRoute	137	InterRoute	138	Amey Mouchel	131
3	Raynesway	57	Carillion Highway Mtce	62	Carillion Highway Mtce	79	Carillion Highway Mtce	73	Carillion Highway Mtce	88
4	Atkins	43	Raynesway	52	Carillion WSP	46	Balfour Beatty	64	Carillion WSP	76
5	Amscott	41	Optima	44	Optima	41	Carillion WSP	52	Aone+	64

Notes:

1.  Table shows for each year the top 5 suppliers by value of work undertaking maintenance work for the Highways Agency.

2.  These figures for value of work are in-year figures—they have not been restated for the effects of inflation.

3.  Individual suppliers may be represented in their own right and as part of Joint Ventures.

4.  For the current year, 2009-10 Aone+ are emerging as the highest ranked supplier by value of work.

Supplier Breakdown

InterRoute	—	Joint Venture between Raynesway (since acquired by Balfour Beatty)/Mott MacDonald
Amey Mouchel	—	Joint Venture between Amey and Mouchel
Aone+	—	Joint Venture between Colas, Halcrow, Costain
Amscott	—	Joint Venture between Alfred McAlpine, Scott Wilson
Raynesway	—	Since acquired by Balfour Beatty
Optima	—	Joint Venture between Atkins, Enterprise (previously Accord)

Question 102 (Mr Davidson): asked for a note on which contractors have had accidents at road works

  The National Audit Office (NAO) report "Highways Agency: Contracting for Highways Maintenance" in para 3.17 states:

"Between 2003 and 2006 (the latest year for which data is available) the total number of road worker injuries, as reported by the Agency's service providers, fell from 61 to 47, and within that the number of fatal and major injuries remained stable at just under 20."


  The source of the figures quoted by the NAO is a report commissioned by the Highways Agency and published in 2006 by Transport Research Laboratory (TRL), entitled "Safety Performance of Minor Road Works on Trunk Roads and Motorways". This report included figures for Design, Build, Finance & Operate (DBFO) concession holders as well as the more conventional service providers running the Managing Agent Contractor (MAC), Managing Agent (MA) and Term Maintenance Contractor (TMC) contracts. The DBFO concession holders are included in the tables 1-6 to preserve consistency with the figures in the NAO report.


  The attached tables (1 to 4) give a breakdown of the number of road worker injuries each service provider (contractor or consultant) reported for each of the four years quoted by the National Audit Office. Tables 5 and 6 give the same information for 2007 and 2008. This information brings the report used by NAO up to date. Against each service provider there is a description of which Highways Agency Maintenance Areas that service provider was involved with in each of those years.


  As can be seen from the range of Agency Areas in which roadworker accidents occurred, there is no specific geographic pattern to the figures.


  The service providers are listed in order according to the total number of injuries they have reported. There is no weighting given to the severity of the injuries unless any total figures are of equivalent value.


  Recorded injuries are classified as fatal, major or minor. A major injury would be one requiring hospitalisation as an in-patient, or fractures, concussion, internal injuries, crushings, burns, major cuts, lacerations and general shock—whether or not they resulted in hospitalisation. A minor injury would include sprains, cuts and bruises which resulted in a three day or greater absence from work.


Key to Agency Maintenance Areas


Areas 1, 2	Southwest
Areas 3, 4, 5	Southeast
Areas 6, 8	East
Area 7	East Midlands
Areas 9, 11	West Midlands
Areas 10, 13	Northwest
Areas 12, 14	Yorkshire and the Northeast




Key to Suppliers


InterRoute	Joint Venture between Raynesway (since acquired by Balfour Beatty)/Mott MacDonald
Amey Mouchel	Joint Venture between Amey and Mouchel
Amscott	Joint Venture between Alfred McAlpine, Scott Wilson
Raynesway	Since acquired by Balfour Beatty
Optima	Joint Venture between Atkins, Enterprise (previously Accord)
AOne	Joint Venture between Colas, Halcrow




Table 1

ROAD WORKER INJURIES IN ROADWORKS 2003


Contractor/ Consultant					No of HA Maintenance Areas involved in
	Fatal	Major	Minor	Total
AmeyMouchel	0	2	16	18	4 (Areas 1, 9, 10, 13)
Atkins	2	4	3	9	4 (Areas 2, 6, 10, 11)
Mouchel Parkman	0	2	2	4	1 (Area 5)
Gifford WSP	0	2	1	3	1 (Area 12)
AM Scott	0	0	3	3	1 (Area 7)
Mott MacDonald	0	0	3	3	2 (Areas 3, 4)
Owen Williams	0	0	3	3	1 (Area 12)
Babtie Group	0	1	1	2	Consultant—various
AOne	0	0	2	2	1 (Area 14)
WSP	0	0	2	2	1 (Area 12)
Others (Single Incidents)	0	5	7	12	n/a
Total	2	16	43	61




Table 2

ROAD WORKER INJURIES IN ROADWORKS 2004


Contractor/ Consultant					No of HA Maintenance Areas involved in
	Fatal	Major	Minor	Total
AmeyMouchel	0	0	19	19	4 (Areas 1, 9, 10, 13)
RMG	0	7	8	15	A1 DBFO Company
Atkins	0	2	3	5	4 (Areas 2, 6, 10, 11)
AOne	0	1	3	4	1 (Area 14)
Mouchel Parkman	0	1	2	3	1 (Area 5)
Carillion 1	1	1	0	2	3 (Areas 5, 8, 12)
AMEC Alfred McAlpine	0	1	1	2	1 (Area 7)
May Gurney	0	1	1	2	On specific project
RCS	0	0	2	2	1 (Area 2)
Others (Single Incidents)	0	2	6	8	n/a
Total	1	16	45	62




Table 3

ROAD WORKER INJURIES IN ROADWORKS 2005


Contractor/ Consultant					No of HA Maintenance Areas involved in
	Fatal	Major	Minor	Total
AmeyMouchel	3	0	10	13	3 (Areas 1, 9, 10, 14)
RMG	0	4	3	7	A417/A419 DBFO Company
Carillion	2	0	3	5	3 (Areas 5, 8, 12)
AM Scott	0	2	2	4	1 (Area 7)
Mouchel Parkman	0	2	2	4	1 (Area 5)
Owen Williams	0	1	3	4	1 (Area 12)
Atkins	0	2	1	3	4 (Areas 2, 6, 10, 11)
Edmund Nuttall	0	0	3	3	Specific project
Others (Single Incidents)	0	2	13	15	n/a
Total	5	13	40	58




Table 4

ROAD WORKER INJURIES IN ROADWORKS 2006


Contractor/ Consultant					No of HA Maintenance Areas involved in
	Fatal	Major	Minor	Total
AmeyMouchel	0	4	5	9	4 (Areas 1, 9, 10, 13)
InterRoute	0	2	7	9	2 (Areas 2, 4)
Carillion	0	1	6	7	3 (Areas 5, 8, 12)
Alfred McAlpine	0	3	3	6	1 (Area 7)
Le Crossing	0	5	0	5	Dartford Crossing
Birse Civils	1	1	0	2	Specific project
Mouchel Parkman	0	1	1	2	1 (Area 5)
AM Scott	0	0	2	2	1 (Area 7)
RMS	0	0	2	2	A1 DBFO company
Others (Single Incidents)	0	2	3	5	n/a
Total	1	19	29	49*

*  The total quoted for 2006 in the NAO report was 47. This figure only included accidents from 1 January 2006 to 7 November 2006. The total to the end of 2006 is 49


Table 5

ROAD WORKER INJURIES IN ROADWORKS 2007


Contractor/ Consultant					No of HA Maintenance Areas involved in
	Fatal	Major	Minor	Total
Carillion	0	1	7	8	8, 12
Amey Mouchel	0	2	6	8	9, 13
AM Scott	0	2	3	5	7
InterRoute	0	1	2	3	2, 4
Midland Expressway	0	0	2	2	M6 Toll
McAlpine	0	1	0	1	10
Soil Mechanics (M25)	0	0	1	1	SE
Connect A1-M1 DBFO	0	0	1	1	YNE
RMS A1 DBFO	0	1	0	1	YNE
Total	0	8	22	30




Table 6

ROAD WORKER INJURIES IN ROADWORKS 2008


Contractor/ Consultant					No of HA Maintenance Areas involved in
	Fatal	Major	Minor	Total
Amey Mouchel/Mouchel	0	3	8	11	5, 9, 13
Carillion	0	0	7	7	12, 5
AM Scott	0	0	3	3	5, 7
A-one	0	2	1	3	14
InterRoute	0	0	2	2	4
Midland Expressway	0	0	2	2	M6 Toll
Amey Highways	0	0	2	2	SE Tech Mac Contract
Accord MP	0	1	0	1	1
Autolink	0	0	1	1	A19 DBFO
Enterprise Mouchel	0	0	1	1	3
Total	0	6	27	33




Question 122 (Edward Leigh): asked Graham Dalton to write to the Committee next February about what more has been done in this area

Graham Dalton will write to the Committee again in February about what further work the Agency has done since the National Audit Office published their report on 16 October 2009.

13 November 2009

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Prepared 7 January 2010