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This report requests authority to award a contract for the provision of Revenues and I.T. Support as required by Contract Standing Order No 88. This report summarises the process undertaken in tendering this contract and, following the completion of the evaluation of the tenders, recommends to whom the contract should be awarded.

Appendix also below

(i)         that approval be given to award the contract for the provision of Revenues and IT Support Services to Capita Business Services Limited with effect from 1 May 2011;

(ii)        that delegated powers provided through regulations issued under the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 for the assessment and collection of Council Tax and Business Rates be granted to Capita Business Services Limited with effect from the 1 May 2011.

The Director of Finance Services report requested authority to award a contract for the provision of Revenues and IT Support as required by Contract Standing Order No 88. The report summarised the process undertaken in tendering this contract and, following the completion of the evaluation of the tenders, recommended to whom the contract should be awarded.  The Executive also had before them an appendix to the report which was not for publication for the following reasons set out in schedule 12(A) of the Local Government Act 1972 namely:

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

RESOLVED:-

(i)         that approval be given to award the contract for the provision of Revenues and IT Support Services to Capita Business Services Limited with effect from 1 May 2011;

(ii)        that delegated powers provided through regulations issued under the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 for the assessment and collection of Council Tax and Business Rates be granted to Capita Business Services Limited with effect from the 1 May 2011.