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Title:

Best Practices of Outsourcing Winter Maintenance Services

Abstract:

Contract language and provisions being used by various owner-agencies in the public sector. Best practices include clear contractual language placing responsibility on private sector to develop, train and equip it's personnel; confine language to measurable outcome-based performance measures; connect producer-contractor to user-customer; producers proactively responding to RWIS-based predictions and encouraged to utilized anti-icing; seek the sharing of knowledge; and maximize opportunities for the private sector to be responsive, efficient and effective. Appendix D contains sample contract provisions.

Source(s):

VMS, Inc.

http://www-esd.worldbank.org/pbc_resource_guide/Docs-latest%20edition/cases-and-pdfs/BestPracticesOutsourcingWinterMaintenanceServices.pdf

Date: 2001

Author:

Bourdon

Keywords:


Productivity

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