Telent has been awarded a ten-year maintenance contract with England's Solihull Council, covering more than 160 highways assets, including junctions and pedestrian crossings.
Solihull is a town located in the West Midlands, between Birmingham and Coventry.
Telent is to conduct routine, preventative maintenance and will also be responsible for attending to and repairing urgent faults.
It will also provide a suite of fault management and asset management systems and deliver new and refurbished traffic signal installations.
The company says its STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) ambassadors will commit 100 staffing hours per year to provide careers advice and workshops for Solihull students.
Additionally, Telent is to roll out dedicated staff wellbeing courses and diversity training for all contractors and subcontractors.
Nigel Weldon, Telent’s business development director for highways, says: “As well as supporting the Council’s vital Highways technologies and keeping Solihull residents safe, we’re committed to bringing social value into the local areas in which we operate.”
Telent has committed to maintaining spend with local suppliers, with its procurement team offering business advice to voluntary community social enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises.
As part of the agreement, all procurement contracts will include commitments to ethical procurement, including anti-slavery verification and other relevant requirements.
Telent’s Wednesbury Regional Service Centre will administer the contract.
