2  General

2.1  The Service Provider shall undertake all inspections, surveys, tests and assessments and provide strategy documents and reports in accordance with this paragraph 2.1 and, subject to the provisions of this Schedule 7, the Highways Maintenance Code, the Highways Structures Code and the Highways Lighting Code so that all the unprocessed data is available to the Authority to:

(a)  enable it to support a defence under section 58 of the 1980 Act and any other Law that requires the Authority to know or reasonably be expected to know whether or not the condition of the Project Network was likely to cause danger to users of the Project Network;

(b)  monitor that the Service is being provided in accordance with the requirements of the Output Specification;

(c)  provide such evidence as may be required by the DfT or the Audit Commission (or such other replacement or successor body) that the NIs (or such replacement or successor local government performance indicators) have been calculated correctly; and

(d)  run the NCI Calculation Methodology, the FWCI Calculation Methodology, the VGCI Calculation Methodology, the KBCI Calculation Methodology and the CTCI Calculation Methodology.

2.2  The Service Provider shall carry out safety inspections on Highway Trees during the Safety Inspection of the Project Roads.

2.3  The Service Provider shall update the Service Provider Programmes to take into account:

(a)  the results of all inspections, surveys, tests and assessments; and

(b)  all strategies, reports, and programmes,

required pursuant to this Schedule 7.