Decision Details

Report of Assistant Director - Procurement

Approval of this report which provides details of the planned procurement activity for the period March 2023 – May 2023 for the following listed below:

1. Refurbishment Works for the Relocation of the Control Centre

2. A managed service provider for a range of delivery partners to support transformation of BCC and deliver savings efficiencies and opportunities

3. Landscape Construction Framework Agreement 2023 – 2027

4. Technical Professional Services for the HS2 Readiness Programme

5. Neighbourhood Integration (NI) – Programme Support
6. Provision of waste sacs and associated services
7. Provision of Street Cleaning Machines
8. Provision of Rateable Value identification data to maximise Business Rate Retention and forecast business rates income
9. New Ways of Working (NWOW) – Procurement of collaboration and specialist supply furniture, delivery, installation and removal of excess office furniture
10. UI Path Delivery Partner

Notes the contract award decisions made under Chief Officers delegation during the period October 2022 – December 2022.

Planned procurement activities reported previously are not repeated in this report.

• Capital in excess of £1m

• Revenue in excess of £500k

• Significant effect on communities in two or more wards

Paragraph 8 of Part I Schedule 12A LGA 1972.  The amount of any expenditure proposed to be incurred by the Council.

On 14 February 2023, Cabinet:-

(i)       Approved the planned procurement activities as set out in Appendix 1 of the report (except for the managed service provider item.  A separate report to Cabinet for this item was needed) and approved Chief Officer delegations, set out in the Constitution, for the subsequent decisions around procurement strategy;

(ii)       Noted the contract award decisions made under Chief Officers delegation during the period October 2022 – December 2022 as detailed in Appendix 4 of the report.