West Berkshire District Council - Road Safety Platform - Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice (VEAT)

The supply of a road safety software (Acuity Suite) including access to a data portal, professional expertise, road safety educational materials and training.

This is a Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency (VEAT) notice directly awarding a 3 + 2 year contract for the provision of a road safety suite of services which include:

Access to a data portals which links to:

• Profiling of regional road safety issues using collision data, trends and other appropriate sources.
• Improving understanding of 'who' is involved in accidents and identifying hotspots in the district.
• Related risk analysis and reporting.
• Creating relevant reports to identify current and future emergent issues.
• Specialist guidance and advise around variety of related road safety themes.
• Stakeholder engagement with partners, emergency services and other groups.
• Educational packages developed alongside council officers specifically meeting our area profiling requirements.

In addition to the road safety software (Acuity Suite), the supplier provides professional expertise to the road safety officers and the wider transport team:

• to help identify the causes of problems
• to help develop solutions to those problems
• Access to evaluation and monitoring expertise to ensure effective and efficient objectives are met.