Issue - meetings

In August 2014 Cabinet approved the allocation of additional funds to meet estimated costs of providing additional school places at Manor School in order to meet the Council’s statutory duty (£2.182m total project cost).  Cabinet also approved the commencement of the procurement process for the building contract works, based on pre-tender considerations set out in the report. Tenders have been received and evaluated on the basis of the evaluation criteria as set out in the August Report. As such, this report requests authority to award a building contract, as required by Contract Standing Order No 88. This report summarises the process undertaken in tendering this contract and recommends to whom the contract should be awarded.

that the contract for the construction works at Manor School be awarded to Cosmur Construction Ltd.

Councillor McLennan advised that following the Cabinet’s approval of the proposals to expand provision at Manor School, the report before the committee requested authority to award the contract to undertake the associated building works to Cosmur Construction Ltd. This company had been chosen following an open tender process detailed in the report. As timing was critical to this project, the contract would contain provision that performance must be completed before the end of August 2015.

The Cabinet also had before them an appendix to the report which was not for publication as it contained the following category of exempt information as specified in Schedule 12 of the Local Government (Access to Information Act) 1972: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:

that the contract for the construction works at Manor School be awarded to Cosmur Construction Ltd.