Decision details

To approve the following decisions:
1. To implement Contract Standing Order 9.07.1 (c), which provides that a Director may award, assign, or novate contracts valued at less than £500,000 (five hundred thousand pounds) for the purposes of appointing Belshaw Building Consultancy to provide Building Surveyor services to convert four vacant shops to housing.

2. Award a contract to Belshaw Building Consultancy Ltd for a total fee of £128,000 + VAT.

The Council requires a Building Surveyor to take schemes from RIBA stage 1-7 on four shop conversion sites to housing:
• 4-6 Poynton Road, N17
• 22-24 Scales Road, N18
• 27 Harvey House, N8
• 43 Finsbury Road, N22

1. To appoint a separate Employers Agent/Quantity Surveyor to manage the build contract and an Architect to manage the design development. However, this option was discounted as the level of design required will be minimal as these schemes are simply conversions. Any architectural input required for the treatment of the shop fronts can be sought by the Building Surveyor. In addition, due to the estimated construction value of these schemes there were concerns that it would be a struggle to appoint consultants separately as the commission would not be financially attractive to each specialist discipline.

2. The other option considered was to appoint the Building Surveyor via a framework. This was also deemed not suitable as the likely value of the contract was going to be under the OJEU threshold. The list of building surveying firms on these frameworks were also not suitably sized to have an interest in these shop conversion sites leading to an uncompetitive tender process.
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