Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Portfolio Holder for Finance, Commercial and Capital Strategy.

That Cabinet agrees:

(a)           To begin each of the procurement procedures, as listed at Appendix 1 to the Cabinet report of 12 March 2024.

(b)           That in each instance the further step of making any contract award be delegated to the relevant Portfolio Holder, in consultation with the relevant Executive Director.

The Portfolio Holder for Finance, Commercial and Capital Strategy set out the report and proposed the recommendation.  This was seconded by Cllr A Parry

In response to a question seeking clarification, Cabinet supported the following change to 3.5 of the report.” Call-in does apply to an urgency decision but the relevant Portfolio Holder and Chief Officer can be called to account for their decision at a meeting of the relevant scrutiny committee.”

Decision

It was agreed:

(a)           To begin each of the procurement procedures, as listed at Appendix 1 to the Cabinet report of 12 March 2024.

(b)           That in each instance the further step of making any contract award be delegated to the relevant Portfolio Holder, in consultation with the relevant Executive Director.

Reason for the decision

Cabinet was required to approve all key decisions with financial consequences of £500k or more. It was good governance therefore to provide Cabinet with a summary of all proposed procurements, that individually were estimated to be total value of £500k or more, prior to procurement procedures formally commencing.