Decision details

RESOLVED:

That Cabinet:

1. Agree that the Term Contract for the provision of Term Contract Schedule 33 (Erection and Renewal of Street Furniture) be awarded to Cyril Smith (Fencing) Limited.

2. Agree that the Term Contractor is to provide the service for an initial period of three years, commencing on 14 October 2009, with the possibility of extending the Contract on an annual basis for a further 2 years, depending on Contractor performance.

3. Instruct Officers to ensure that all expenditure against this term contract is approved by way of a formal Cabinet Member decision jointly made by the Leader of the Council and Cabinet Member for Finance and Business Services.

Reasons for decision

Cabinet were aware that the Council was statutorily required to maintain highways maintainable at public expense and to take such care as is reasonably required to secure the safety of the highway for traffic. Cabinet therefore approved to have a Term Contractor available to carry out the erection and renewal of street furniture as and when required by the Council.

Cabinet approved the recommendation put forward by officers because the successful tenderer was able to satisfy the Officers that they had the capability and capacity to work in partnership with the Council to achieve best value in the provision of the erection and renewal of street furniture. Cabinet also requested any expenditure be made by way of a formal Cabinet Member decision.

Alternative options considered and rejected

Cabinet could have agreed not to appoint a tenderer which would have left the Council without a contractor for the provision of the erection and renewal of signs and street furniture.

Officer to action:

Jonathan Westell and Stuart Foulstone, Environment and Consumer Protection

Exempt Information

This report was included in Part II as it contained information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the Authority holding that information) and the public interest in withholding the information outweighed the public interest in disclosing it (exempt information under paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government (Access to Information) Act 1985 as amended.