Issue - meetings

To consider a report from the Portfolio Holder for Finance, Commercial and Assets.

Decision

That authority be delegated authority to the Portfolio Holder for Finance, Commercial and Assets to award a contract for banking services.

Cabinet consider a report setting out the planned procurement activity that was in addition to the procurement forward plan approved by Cabinet on 4 June 2019.  Now that the predecessor councils had come together as one organisation, multiple bankers would not be the most efficient and effective way to operate. Therefore the Portfolio Holder for Finance, Commercial and Assets proposed the appointment to a single provider of banking services for Dorset Council. 

Appointing a single provider would allow processes to be streamlined and simplified.  In particular, this would enable some of the savings identified as part of the Tranche 2 Review of the Corporate Development directorate to be delivered.

Decision

That authority be delegated authority to the Portfolio Holder for Finance, Commercial and Assets to award a contract for banking services.