Decision details

To consider the Council’s approach to offering Brent residents a collective energy switching scheme and to recommend the way that they would like setting up a scheme to be progressed.  A switching scheme can be offered to residents for them to participate in by March 2013, when DECC funding will run out.

(i)         that approval be given to the introduction of a collective energy switching scheme for Brent residents as set out in paragraph 3.6 – 3.8 of the report from the Director of Strategy, Partnerships and Improvement;

(ii)        that approval be given to the council’s participation in a collaborative procurement with sixteen other London boroughs leading to the appointment of an organisation to assist residents with collective energy switching should the Director of Strategy Partnerships and Improvement favour the joint establishment with other London boroughs of a collective energy switching scheme;

(iii)       that approval be given to the council’s participation in a collaborative procurement with sixteen other London boroughs leading to the appointment of legal and procurement consultancy services;

(iv)       that approval be given to the collaborative procurement exercises described in (ii) and (iii) being exempted from the normal requirements of Brent’s Contract Standing Orders and Financial Regulations in accordance with Contract Standing Orders 84(a) on the basis that there are good operational and / or financial reasons as described in paragraphs 3.6 and 3.8 of the report