Issue - meetings

RESOLVED:

That Cabinet approves:

1.      The retrospective extension of the Mitie contract to provide planned and reactive maintenance and works to the Council's 200+ corporate sites for 2+1 years starting from 1st November 2015;

2.      The variation of the Mitie contract from its current Deductable Comprehensive provision to a Managed Fund governance model;

3.      The variation of the Mitie contract to extract the Post Room Service and bring the service back In-house to be re-modelled;

4.      The variation of the Mitie contract to extract the non civic Caretakers Service and bring the service back In-house to be re-modelled;

5.      The variation of the Mitie contract to extract the Civic Centre room booking facility and bring the service back in-house; 

6.      The retrospective extension of the Honeywell contract to provide planned and reactive Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning maintenance within the Civic Centre for 1+1 years starting from 1st December 2015;

7.      Officers to approach the market in order to commission an Asset Condition Survey of all Corporate Properties in order to ascertain asset condition and lifecycle.

Reasons for decision

Cabinet made the necessary decisions to move the Council's FM strategy away from Total Facilities Management approach to a "Best in Class" approach. Cabinet agreed to vary as appropriate and extend the current contracts with Mitie and Honeywell.

Alternative options considered and rejected

Cabinet could have decided to re-tender for FM services and works.

Officers to action:

Perry Scott, Residents Services

Michael Breen, Finance Directorate

Classification: Private

Whilst the Cabinet's decisions above are always made public, the officer report relating to this matter is not because it was considered in the private part of the meeting and 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.