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Welcome to our new website section looking at how eContrack
is being used by different sectors in the marketplace.
This article focuses on the Highways sector.
The Highways Sector
BSL works with the Highways Agency, Transport Wales, Department
for Regional Development Northern Ireland (DRDNI), Local Authorities,
Design Consultants, framework contractors and members of the
professional team involved in the design, delivery and maintenance
of the road network across the UK.
CAT
eContrack Benchmark is the data collection tool used by the
Highways Agency to collect and assess the annual CAT (Capability
Assessment Toolkit) scores
Areas for measurement
- New Road Design
- New Road Implementation
- Planned and Responsive Highway
Maintenance
- Client, Members (Local Council
Members) and Resident Satisfaction
- Best Value
- Efficiency gains
- Respect for People
- Environmental, Health & Safety
- CoP Local Indicators
eContrack Benchmark can handle any
measurement criteria therefore the above list is not exhaustive.
Our work with major clients
BSL provides eContrack Benchmark databases to individual clients,
including The Highways Agency, Local Authorities and Major
Highways Contractors to manage performance data and drive
improvement in relation to:
- Measuring Design performance
- Measuring Project performance
- Measuring Partners on delivery
of work
- Undertaking 360 degree appraisals
- Recording Client, Member and
Resident satisfaction
- Measuring to inform supplier
procurement
Benchmarking Clubs
BSL administers The National Highways Best Value Benchmarking
Club; the Club is sub-divided into the areas of Highway
Works and Highway
Design
The two divisions operate in parallel, a committee drawn from
the membership manages each division, and each has adopted
measures that reflect the requirements of the different disciplines.
Members of each division are provided with access to a shared
database and a common set of measures whilst ensuring the
anonymity of members' data.
Membership of our Clubs provides:
- Services of a dedicated BSL
Benchmarking Club Management Team
- Use of eContrack Benchmark
Club software to share & compare performance data
- Choice of measures that are
of Key importance to the members
- Regular structured meetings
for Club Members
- An annual conference for all
members of both clubs to share experiences.
- The means to share Best Practice
- Assistance with Continuous
Improvement.
- Workshops
- Training
Other eContrack Benchmark features:
- Record data against unlimited
numbers of projects
- Measure the performance of
supply chain partners
- Collect performance data electronically
from source using e-mail scoring requests
- Automatically chase data providers
for information
- Run your own graphs and reports
direct from the software
- Store project images and documents
For further details contact Jennifer Simons 01884 841884
or email jennifers@buildsoft.co.uk.
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