Issue - meetings
Brent Civic Centre: Authority to Award Contract for Furniture Furnishings and Equipment (FFE)
Meeting: 19/09/2012 - Executive (Item 12)
This report requests authority to award contracts as required by Contracts Standing Order 88. This report summarises the procurement process undertaken by the Council to procure the Furniture, Furnishings & Equipment (FFE) for the new Civic Centre and recommends to whom contracts should be awarded.
Additional documents:
- rmp-civic-app1, item 12 PDF 36 KB
- rmp-civic-app2, item 12 PDF 35 KB
- rmp-civic-appendix 3 NOT FOR PUBLICATION , View reasons restricted (12/4)
Decision:
(i) that the Furniture, Furnishings & Equipment contracts to the organisations named in Appendix 2 for the following Lots be awarded as follows:
Lot 1: Workstation Desks, Storage and Lockers
Lot 2: Loose Furniture for Administration Areas
Lot 3: Loose Furniture for Public and Democratic Areas
Lot 4: Specialist Furniture for Conference Rooms and Civic Hall
Lot 5: Workstation Chairs
(ii) that the Assistant Director Major Projects and Civic Centre with the Director of Legal and Procurement be authorised to finalise the terms of appointment.
Minutes:
Councillor Crane (Lead Member, Regeneration and Major Projects) introduced the report in the name of the Chief Executive which sought authority to award contracts as required by Contracts Standing Order 88. The report summarised the procurement process undertaken by the council to procure the Furniture, Furnishings and Equipment (FFE) for the new Civic Centre and recommended to whom contracts should be awarded. Councillor Crane was pleased to announce that the new Civic Centre had achieved a BREEAM outstanding rating as the greenest public office building in the country. Councillor Crane thanked Hopkins Architects, the developers SKANSKA and the Civic Centre Development Team for all their work. Arrangements would be made for members to visit the site in due course. On the contract for Furniture, Furnishings and Equipment, Councillor Crane reported that 11 organisations had tendered following the placement of the notice in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) in April 2012 and reminded the Executive that once the decision was taken to award the contract there would be a mandatory 10 day standstill period before the appointment could be made.
The Executive also had before them an appendix to the report which was not for publication as it contained the following category of exempt information as specified in Schedule 12 of the Local Government (Access to Information Act) 1972: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 that information).
RESOLVED:-
(i) that the Furniture, Furnishings & Equipment contracts to the organisations named in Appendix 2 for the following Lots be awarded as follows:
Lot 1: Workstation Desks, Storage and Lockers
Lot 2: Loose Furniture for Administration Areas
Lot 3: Loose Furniture for Public and Democratic Areas
Lot 4: Specialist Furniture for Conference Rooms and Civic Hall
Lot 5: Workstation Chairs
(ii) that the Assistant Director Major Projects and Civic Centre with the Director of Legal and Procurement be authorised to finalise the terms of appointment.