On 25 July 2023, Cabinet:-
(i) Approved the OBC (Appendix 1 to the
report) to repair and refurbish the Small Heath Wellbeing Centre swimming pool
to enable it to reopen to the public at an estimated capital cost of £3.900m
subject to a Full Business Case (FBC);
(ii) Approved the allocation and spend of a
capital sum of £0.450m funded from the corporate capital contingency budget
(prudential borrowing) for the design and enabling works to develop the project
to RIBA Stage 4 Technical Design and development of the Full Business Case.
(iii) Authorised the Strategic Director, City
Operations to instruct Acivico Ltd to progress the project proposal to RIBA
Plan of Work to Stage 4 (Technical Design) at a cost not to exceed £0.178m.
(iv) Approved the strategy and commencement of
the procurement activity for the works to undertake a further competition
exercise using Acivico Ltd’s Constructing West Midlands 2 (CWM2) Framework Agreement;
(v) Delegated authority to the Strategic
Director of City Operations in conjunction with the Assistant Director,
Procurement, the Interim Director Finance and the City Solicitor &
Monitoring Officer (or their delegates) to award the contract for a Pre-Construction
Services Agreement (PCSA) and noted the approval for the award of the main
works contract will be in the FBC to Cabinet in June/July 2024;
(vi) Authorised the City Solicitor and
Monitoring Officer (or their delegate) to negotiate, execute and complete all
necessary documents to give effect to the above recommendations;
(vii) Noted the future intention to develop a
business case for a new leisure facility in the locality and transfer public
swimming provision and dry site activities from Small Heath WBC to that new
facility and agree with the Star Academy Trust the structure of an arrangement
to allow the School (Small Heath Leadership Academy) on-going use of the
existing facility to deliver the curriculum to their students.
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