Decision details

RESOLVED:

That Cabinet:

1. Accepts the tenders submitted by Redwing Construction Ltd, totaling £693,829 for the works at Coteford Infant School (£324,736) and Pinkwell Junior School (£369,093) but delegate the timing and award of the contracts to the Cabinet Member for Education & Children’s Services in consultation with the Corporate Director of Education & Children’s Services.

2. Accepts the tenders submitted by T&B Contractors, totaling £1,847,528 for the works at Charvile (£468,500), Deansfield (£464,882), Whitehall (£474,868) and Yeading (£439,278), but delegate the timing and award of the contracts to the Cabinet Member for Education & Children’s Services in consultation with the Corporate Director of Education & Children’s Services.

Reasons for the decision

Cabinet made the decision in order to provide sufficient accommodation to meet demand for places and meet the legal requirement to admit pupils up to each school’s published admission number.

The proposed projects were part of a programme of works designed to provide improved life chances for Hillingdon’s young children and their families and the Council has a target to develop these 6 Children’s Centres by March 2010. 

Alternative options considered

Cabinet could have not accepted any tender, in which case the project would not have been able to proceed.

Officers to action:

Michael Kinsella, Deputy Chief Executive’s Office

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.

Urgency Provisions

This report had been circulated less than 5 working days before the Cabinet meeting and was agreed by the Chairman to be considered as urgent.