Purpose

Footway slurry seal is a low-cost preventative
maintenance treatment used to extend the life of a footway, and is
included as one of a number of services covered under the existing
Surrey County Council (‘SCC’) Highways Term Maintenance
Contract.
 
The Footway Repair Treatment Programme has a
relatively high profile as footway condition is often more
prominent to local residents and communities and the impact of
completed work (to the expected standard) is well received and
creates positive outcomes in those areas.
 
Footway Slurry is a weather dependent
treatment and the window for delivery closes early to late November
and doesn’t reopen until early March, and there are limited
providers of this specific treatment.
 
The intention of this award of contract is to
increase a specialist resource in the SCC delivery programme, and
to reduce the potential risks of delays to the programme, including
deterioration of the footways if not surface treated at this
time.
 

Content

Decision made:
 
It was AGREED that:
 
1.A contract with an initial term of 9 months,
from 1st July 2025 to 30th March 2026, would
be awarded to a specialist contractor to support the SCC Footway
Repair Treatment Programme.
2.The contract would have a discretionary
12-month extension period, from 1st April 2026 to
31st March 2027.
 

Reasons for the decision

Reasons for Decision:
 
The footway slurry programme is one of a
number of services covered under the Term Maintenance Contract with
Ringway who deliver this through a subcontract agreement.
There have been a number of challenges with
delivering this programme over the past 18 months including but not
limited to engaging and retaining the specialist
resource.  In consultation with Ringway
it was agreed that Surrey would directly contract an alternative
contractor to provide additional resource in order to ensure
delivery of the programme.
 

Alternative options considered

The highways service and Ringway have spent a
considerable length of time reviewing alternative resources within
the Ringway supply chain to get this programme delivered, however
they have been unable to secure sufficient additional resource and
therefore the decision was jointly taken for SCC to secure
additional resource to get the programme delivered.