ANNEXURE 1 TO PART 4 OF SCHEDULE 3 [OUTPUT SPECIFICATION]

The Annual Winter Maintenance Service Operational Plan shall comply with the requirements of the Authority's Winter Maintenance Policy and shall include (without limitation):

1.  an introduction and the Service Provider's policy statement;

2.  all details of management arrangements and operational structures at all times including during and out of normal working hours with roles responsibilities;

3.  all details of liaison undertaken and to be undertaken with other highway authorities and/or their maintaining agents and liaison with the police and other emergency services, public transport providers and Centro and indicate where comments from such other parties have been taken into account in the relevant Annual Winter Maintenance Service Operational Plan;

4.  all details of contact arrangements with and, communications and arrangements for informing the media and public including public information leaflets

5.  all details of attendance at meetings on behalf of the Authority;

6.  identification of the weather forecast provider used and such information as is/was provided by the service received;

7.  all details of the ice prediction and detection system proposals including it's maintenance, calibration and development;

8.  all details of the decision making processes, including roles and responsibilities, procedures for use of weather forecast provider, accuracy of forecast, justification for changing decisions, arrangements for continuous monitoring of forecasts, use of CCTV facilities to monitor weather conditions;

9.  all details associated with the intended use of salt (and other anti-icing products) spread rates for carriageways and footways etc to deal with ice, snow and severe weather conditions;

10.  all details of precautionary treatments including salting routes, patrol routes, protocols for resource availability during hours of darkness, inclement weather;

11.  all details of snow clearing operations, description of arrangements and resources for snowfall and prolonged snowfall strategy including treatment strategy for FSLs;

12.  all details of the strategy for emergency actions such as requests from police & other emergency services regarding hazardous locations and additional service requests from the public;

13.  all details of storage arrangements for anti-icing including a comprehensive salt management strategy;

14.  all details of arrangements for procurement of additional resources in severe conditions and response times;

15.  all details of labour, numbers available, training and qualifications of operatives and call out procedures;

16.  all details of plant, equipment and depots including availability, calibration, communication equipment as well as descriptions and locations of depots and storage facilities;

17.  all details of any additional resources;

18.  all details of liaison with the Authority re additional resources;

19.  all details of measures to minimise damage or pollution arising from the use of anti-icing agents, through any over salting and coverage of salt stocks;

20.  all details of areas identified for dumping snow;

21.  all details of record keeping including archives of data, decision making logs, weekly summary reports, salt usage, ice early warning system data etc and all vehicles to be fitted with GPS with salting spreading and comprehensive details;

22.  all details of communications and liaison with emergency services and public transport executive;

23.  all details of putting out, refilling, taking back in and storage of grit bins including locations, full street plan location books, refills criteria, damage limitation (vandalism) & fixing methods, response to incidents/dangerous during day, night, week;

24.  all details of locations for special treatment areas including structures where sale is not permitted, frost susceptible areas and areas with known surface run-off problems;

25.  all details of the Winter Maintenance Service Operational Plan's relationship with the Emergency Response Plan;

26.  the period over which Winter Maintenance Service Operations shall take place (the "Winter Maintenance Period");

27.  a detailed footway treatment plan; and

28.  details of bus routes with a frequency of thirty (30) minutes or less as agreed between the Service Provider and public transport authority.