Chapter 6
Financial
Key points
Overall position
• The budget allocation from Transport Scotland at £168.5m, was almost identical to the previous year.
• An Efficient Government Assessment indicated the 3G contracts delivered more work on the network for a similar budget than the previous arrangements.
• Overall, the financial systems operated by the OCs were robust, although there were some minor issues needing to be addressed by the OCs during the year.
Programme, budgets, orders and spend
•For all OCs overall spend was broadly in line with budget, with underspends in SE and NW being partly off-set against overspends in NE and SW.
• With the exception of SW, there is room for improvement from all OCs in the provision of accurate expenditure profiles.
• The OCs need to continue with close monitoring of spend against orders for specific schemes.
Contract control and management
systems
• All the OCs operated a functional CCMS during the year.
• The OCs are not fully utilising CCMS to record the completion and closure of schemes.
Claims and commercial issues
• These continue to be reviewed and
dealt with by Transport Scotland and PAG as required.
