Issue - meetings

19/00016 - Procurement and award of contract/s for Highway Arboriculture Programmed Works

Meeting: 19/03/2019 - Environment & Transport Cabinet Committee (Item 168)

168 19/00016 - Procurement and award of contract/s for Highway Arboriculture Programmed Works pdf icon PDF 104 KB

To consider and endorse, or make recommendations to the Cabinet Member for Planning, Highways, Transport and Waste on the proposed decision to:

 

(a)  approve the procurement of the Arboriculture Programmed Works Contract and in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Planning, Highways, Transportation and Waste delegate authority to the Director of Highways, Transportation and Waste to approve the award of the subsequent contract to the preferred bidder; and

 

(b)  in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Planning, Highways, Transportation and Waste delegate authority to the Director of Highways, Transportation and Waste to award extensions of the Arboriculture Programmed Works Contract in accordance with the possible extension clauses within the contract.

 

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Minutes:

Andrew Loosemore (Head of Highways Asset Management) and Robin Hadley (Soft Landscape Asset Manager) were in attendance for this item.

 

1.    Mr Hadley introduced the report that set out the arboriculture programmed works contract which was due to end on 31st August 2019. A procurement process had commenced, the timetable of which was detailed within the Commercial Strategy report that was approved by the Strategic Commissioning Board (SCB) on 31st January 2019; and therefore, endorsement was sought from the Committee to progress onto the next stage of the procurement process which included: delegated authority to the Director of Highways, Transportation and Waste to approve the award of contract to the preferred bidder; and possible extensions if required in accordance with the contracts clauses.

 

2.    RESOLVED that the proposed decision (19/00016) to be taken by the Cabinet Member for Planning, Highways, Transport and Waste to:

 

(a)      approve the procurement of the Arboriculture Programmed Works Contract and in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Planning, Highways, Transportation and Waste delegate authority to the Director of Highways, Transportation and Waste to approve the award of the subsequent contract to the preferred bidder; and

 

(b)      in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Planning, Highways, Transportation and Waste delegate authority to the Director of Highways, Transportation and Waste to award extensions of the Arboriculture Programmed Works Contract in accordance with the possible extension clauses within the contract,

be endorsed.