Decision details

Award of a contract to provide Architectural services

Decision Maker: Assistant Director for Housing

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Decision:

Authorisation is sought from the Assistant Director Housing to award a contract under Contract Standing Order (CSO) 9.07.1c to Satish Jassal Architects Limited to provide architectural services stages 1-3 for the Remington Road site for a Fee of £68,588 + VAT (includes £33,760 provisional sum for surveys).

Reasons for the decision:

The Council requires the services of an Architectural practice to take these sites from RIBA Stage 1 to 3.

Alternative options considered:

One option considered was to appoint an architectural practice via a framework. This was deemed not suitable as the value of the contract was going to be considerably under the OJEU threshold. The list of architectural practices on these frameworks were also not suitably sized to have an interest in these small site schemes leading to an uncompetitive tender process.

Publication date: 07/01/2020

Date of decision: 22/10/2019