FEATURE BPA MODEL CONTRACT
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PRESSURE IS ON LOCAL AUTHORITIES TO DELIVER HIGH LEVELS OF SERVICES, BUT WITH EVER-TIGHTER BUDGETS AND INCREASING COSTS, THE NEED TO MANAGE BOTH TIME AND RESOURCES HAS NEVER BEEN MORE KEY. DAVE SMITH EXPLAINS HOW THE BPA MODEL CONTRACT IS PROVIDING A SOLUTION
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ne thing that can assist in ensuring best practice and performance measures are in place and being monitored is the BPA’s model contract for parking.
Developed in response to demand from
local authorities for a standardised contractual framework to be used for outsourcing decriminalised parking enforcement contracts, the model contract was launched in 2004 and was made available to all local authorities under a cost-eff ective licensing regime. T e contract has now been redeveloped
and updated, and is designed for use by all organisations that appoint service providers to manage their parking and associated services, including healthcare and higher education facilities, shopping centres, airports and railways.
A detailed document T e 2011 version has been through a consultation process, with the BPA, government, local contractors and service providers, and amendments have been made to the fi nished product. T is has been endorsed by the Transport Select Committee and is included in the Statutory Guidance. T e contract helps organisations to reduce the time spent designing and preparing contracts. It also helps to improve the level of service delivered as it provides a standard template for the procurement of services. Best practice is encouraged by measuring the quality of service provided and eases negotiations for both supplier and service provider. T e contract is based on the following: ■ An open and trusting partnership;
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Dave Smith is
communications offi cer at the British Parking Association
■ A sharing of risk, which is allocated to
whichever party is best able to manage it; ■ Performance related payments that are directly linked to actual measurement of performance
through key performance indicators; ■ Incentives for service providers to seek
innovative ways of reducing target costs; and ■ Employing the right calibre of motivated and well trained staff . Austen Hunter, Brighton and Hove City
Council, said: ‘T e BPA model contract has proved invaluable in helping us to demonstrate a real, practical commitment to quality-based enforcement services. We are often asked about the nature of our contract and the key drivers. T e model contract gives credibility to us as a progressive, customer-driven service.’ T e BPA model contract makes public
procurement better value for money, as well as heading off adverse media scrutiny on parking- related issues.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION contact Abdul Traore email adbul.t@britishparking.
co.uk Telephone 01444 447 310 Visit www.
britishparking.co.uk/ Library/Model-Contract
A complex matter Chris Galbraith, department for regional development in Northern Ireland added: ‘T e BPA model contract provided an excellent framework for the fi rst-ever decriminalised parking enforcement contract in NI in 2006. Due to the extensive geographical spread and the broad range of functions covered, it was a particularly complex contract, valued at more than £8m/year. We hope to use the BPA model contract when our contract expires in 2012.’ T e contract can be provided both as a paper
copy and in PDF format on a disc. It costs £500 for BPA members (£950 non-members) for each year the contract is in use.
www.britishparking.co.uk
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