On 10 September 2024, Cabinet:-
(i) Approved the recommendation to account
for existing Private Sector Leased (PSL) properties through the Block Contract
within the Housing Revenue Account (HRA) and to extend the current block
contract by 1 day;
(ii) Delegated authority to the Strategic
Director of City Housing in consultation with the Interim Director Commercial
& Procurement (or their delegate), the Interim Director of Finance and
Section 151 Officer (or their delegate) and the Interim City Solicitor &
Monitoring Officer (or their delegate) to:
(a) Approve the procurement strategy and to
approve the establishment of the new TA Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) with
the intention that all PSL properties secured through the DPS being accounted
for in the HRA via a 10yr plus 1 day Leasing Scheme
(b) Approve the procurement of a managing
agent to provide continued support to the Directorate’s acquisitions programme
(c) Approve the procurement of external legal
resource to support the registration of leases, if required;
(iii) Delegated the award of contracts following
the completion of further competition exercises under the DPS, to be authorised
in accordance with the Procurement and Contract Governance Rules;
(iv) Delegated authority to the Strategic
Director for City Housing to extend the DPS for a further period of up to 2
years in yearly increments;
(v) Noted the use of the exemption to the
procurement legislation under regulations under Regulation 10(1)(a) in the
Public Contract Regulations 2015 (PCR2015) approved by Cabinet on the 5
September 2023 will be replaced by paragraph 8(1) of Part 2 of Schedule 2 of
the Procurement Act 2023 (PA2023) which comes into effect on the 28 October
2024;
(vi) Approved the use of Reg 10(1)(a) (PCR2015)
or paragraph 8 of Schedule 2 (PA2023) subject to the approval of Revenue &
Benefits, through the Section 151 officer to secure the use of additional
premises to use as homeless centre accommodation;
(vii) Approved the spend of the £8m currently
available s.106 monies on HRA acquisitions and delegated authority to the
Strategic Director of City Housing in accordance with the Council’s Section 114
spend protocols for the ongoing minimum of 50% spend of the available Section 106
fund each financial year on HRA acquisitions;
(viii) Authorised the Interim City Solicitor &
Monitoring Officer to complete all necessary documents to give effect to the
above recommendations.
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