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Highway authorities challenged to buy same items to save millions

18 November 2011
 

The Cabinet Office is urging highway engineers to sacrifice their use of bespoke items such as footway kerbs and streetlight lamps in return for shaving a fifth or more off the cost of buying materials.

Zerrin Lovett, the Cabinet Office efficiency and reform group’s head of strategic supplier management, told an LTT conference held with Transport for London and the London Technical Advisors Group: “Every highway engineer has a technical specification that they have to have. They can...

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