Issue - meetings

(Joint Report of the Director of Corporate Resources and the Chief Financial Officer): To seek agreement to enter into a Consultants for Construction Works (Additional Services) Framework Agreement with identified companies. 

We received a report requesting agreement to enter into a Consultants For Construction Works (Additional Services) Framework agreement with the companies identified in the Appendix to the report.

Details of the contracts which were set out in the Appendix to the interleaved report were the subject of a motion to exclude the press and public from the meeting as they contained exempt information relating to the business or financial affairs of any particular person (including the Authority holding that information).

Following discussions with Officers, we requested that information on the hourly rates of the companies identified be provided to the Committee.  We further requested a briefing and presentation on the process which would be followed upon the Council entering into the Framework Agreement.

Officers also promised to provide Members with information on the number of Project Managers who were agency staff.

RESOLVED:

That approval be given to the proposal to enter into a Consultants for Construction Works (Additional Services) Framework Agreement with:

Ø      John Burke Associates for provision of clerk of works services

Ø      Gardiner &Theobald LLP for provision of CDM co-ordinator services

Ø      Frankham Consultancy Group, Erinaceous Group, Keegans Ltd, Potter Raper partnership LLP for provision of quantity surveying

as allowed under Contract Standing Order (CSO) 11.03, for a period of two years with the option to extend the framework agreement for a further two years on an annual basis subject to satisfactory performance of those companies.