Trafikverket is responsible for the public traffic network in Sweden. The traffic
network contains around 15 500 bridges that constantly are exposed of different
kinds of degradation. The bridges must therefore be maintained at regular
intervals both to keep bridges in good condition and to prevent the degradation
accelerated.
During the last years Trafikverket has developed a new procurement method of
bridge maintenance. The method involves that all bridges maintenance of a region
is being bundled to one contract that an entrepreneur handles for five years, a socalled
bridge maintenance package. A bridge maintenance package exists of
preventive maintenance, remedial maintenance and emergency maintenance.
The purpose of this paper is to follow up the new form to procure bridge
maintenance in package. The goal is to clarify the gains or losses made in
efficiency since the introduction of bridge maintenance in package.
Methods used in the creating of this thesis are literary studies, meetings and
interviews along with analysis, calculations and comparisons.
The result lays the foundation for the client, contractor and consultant working in
the bridge maintenance package and further what has changed from the way they
were working on bridge maintenance earlier.
The largest efficiency gains are administrative. Because a bridge maintenance
package is a turnkey contract the majority of responsibility is put on the
contractor, instead of the client, which gives the client time for other tasks.
Nowadays the bridge maintenance is in a separate contract which lasts for a longer
time which gives the client a more qualified contractor for that kind of work
which is reducing the number of fundamental questions and gives the client extra
time. The contractor will get more operating freedom and at the same time more
time to plan maintenance work. Through frequent communication between client
and contractor decision-making paths becomes shorter which gives more
efficiency throughout the entire process.
The package in the region Skaraborg was one of the first bridge maintenance
packages and it differs a lot from later maintenance packages. The biggest
difference is in the contract documents. The package in Skaraborg was based on a
fictional bridge while the more recent maintenance packages documents addresses
the real action which the contractor will perform during the contracted period.