1. Total recorded spend incurred by the Council for repainting roundabouts (including planned maintenance and reactive works), broken down where held by: staff time/recharge rates, contractor costs, vehicles/plant/materials, traffic management, disposal/waste, overtime.
This information is not held by Devon County Council. Information specifically for roundabouts not held. This financial year a budget of £1.7million is dedicated to planned road marking programmes.
Information on the cost of individual reactive repairs to road markings identified as highway safety defects is not held. Charging and paying for defect repairs is based on cost of labour plant and materials for a given geographical area for the billing period.
1a. The number of jobs/incidents where roundabouts were repainted, with date and ward or postcode sector for each (no exact addresses required). If you do not hold a discrete ’roundabout’ category, please extract cases recorded under road markings/white lining/traffic signs & lines where the free-text notes contain ’roundabout’, ‘RB’, ‘circulatory’, ‘island’ or any likely similar keyword for the period.
Information of planned works specifically for roundabouts is not held by Devon County Council.
245 road marking safety defects have been identified in the period. Please see the records in the following spreadsheet that refer to “roundabout” in the records.
2. The job/incident category codes and cost centre/recharge codes used for these works (e.g. road markings/white lining/circulatory carriageway/roundabout).
Cost codes:
R0562002
R0554004
C02043
C0652001
3. The current schedule of rates (or equivalent) used by the Council and/or its contractor(s) for road-marking/white-lining works specifically applicable to roundabouts (e.g. per metre/per m² rates, mobilisation, traffic management).
This information is exempt from disclosure under Section 43(2) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (Commercial Interests).
Devon County Council can confirm the requested information is held; however, its disclosure would prejudice the commercial interests of the Council.
This is because sharing this information could have an impact on future contracts and jeopardise our ability as a purchasing authority to achieve best value for money. Release of this information could result in suppliers benchmarking against previous rates when preparing future tenders. Publishing this level of detail may also prompt suppliers to elect to not bid for Devon County Council tenders. This is on the basis that we could be viewed as being in the habit of releasing details of bidding models and thereby potentially compromising bidders’ ongoing commercial positions. This would risk distorting the competitive process and could undermine our ability to secure best value for money and may end up causing the Council to obtain less value from procurement exercises.
The Council has considered the public interest in releasing this information and recognises there is a public interest in openness and transparency. However, there is a stronger public interest in ensuring that the Council is able to obtain the best possible value from future contract negotiations and deliver services efficiently in order to avoid placing financial pressure on public funds.
We publish total contract value of awarded contracts in contract award notices (Find high value contracts in the public sector – GOV.UK), and in our contract register. To find out the details of the contract please use the narrow results and search facility to find the contracts you are interested in. This will give you the details of the contract and the winning supplier.
4. Any policy/guidance/Standard Operating Procedure in force during the period for inspection, prioritisation and repainting of roundabout markings and associated surfacing, including the legal basis (e.g. Highways Act 1980 s41 duty to maintain; Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016; Traffic Signs Manual – Chapter 5 (Road Markings); UK Road Leadership Group ‘Well-managed Highway Infrastructure’).
All of the above legislation is relevant. Please also see Devon County Council’s Highway Safety Policy.
Please also see this further information that is held regarding road markings: Road Markings Information Sheet.