Issue - meetings

This report summarises the procurement process undertaken by the Council to procure a Design & Build contractor and requests authority to award a contract for the appointment of a Design & Build contractor for the new Civic Centre. A supplementary report will be tabled at the meeting identifying the successful tenderer.

i.          that the design and build contract for the Civic Centre be awarded to Skanska Construction UK Limited;

ii.         that the Assistant Director (Civic Centre) with the Director of Legal and Procurement be authorised to finalise the terms of appointment.

Councillor John introduced the report on the award of the contract to design and build the new Civic Centre.

A supplementary report was tabled at the meeting.  The Borough Solicitor advised that in taking a decision on the matter, the Executive could resolve to take the tabled paper in public.

The Assistant Director for the Civic Centre stated that four tenders for the contract had been received and a lot of work had gone into evaluating them against set criteria.  He was recommending the award of the contract to Skanska Construction UK Ltd.

The Executive also had before them appendix 2 and 3 to the report which were not for publication as they contained the following category of exempt information as specified in Schedule 12 of the Local Government (Access to Information Act) 1972: 

Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding the information).

RESOLVED:-

(i)        that the supplementary report tabled at the meeting be taken in public;

(ii)       that the design and build contract for the Civic Centre be awarded to Skanska Construction UK Limited;

(iii)      that the Assistant Director (Civic Centre) with the Director of Legal and Procurement be authorised to finalise the terms of appointment.

(Councillor Thomas had declared an interest in the above item and withdrew from the meeting room during discussion on the item)