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This report concerns the future provision of the Council’s Insurance Services contracts.  This report requests approval to invite tenders in respect of the proposed Insurance Services contracts to start 1 April 2012, as required by Contract Standing orders 88 and 89

      i.        that the pre-tender considerations and the criteria to be used to evaluate tenders for the Council’s Insurance Services, as set out in paragraph 3.10 of the report, be approved;

    ii.        that officers invite expressions of interest, agree shortlists, invite tenders in respect of the Council’s Insurance Services contracts and evaluate them in accordance with the approved evaluation criteria referred to in the decision above;

   iii.        that approval be given to extend the current insurance services contract with Zurich Municipal for a period of six months.

Councillor Butt (Lead Member, Children and Families) introduced this report which concerned the future provision of the Council’s Insurance Services contracts.  The report requested approval to invite tenders in respect of the proposed Insurance Services contracts to start 1 April 2012, as required by Contract Standing Orders 88 and 89. The Director of Finance and Corporate Services advised that the time extension would allow further exploration of markets.

The Executive also had before them an appendix which was not for publication as it contained the following category of exempt information specified in Schedule 12 of the Local Government (Access to Information Act) 1972 namely:

Information in respect of which a claim to legal professional privilege could be maintained in legal proceedings.

RESOLVED:-

(i)         that approval be given to the pre-tender considerations and the criteria to be used to evaluate tenders for the Council’s Insurance Services as set out in paragraph 3.10 of the report from the Director of Finance and Corporate Services;

(ii)        that approval be given to officers to invite of expressions of interest, agree shortlists, invite tenders in respect of the Council’s Insurance Services contracts and evaluate them in accordance with the approved evaluation criteria referred to in (i) above;

(iii)       that approval be given to the extension of the current insurance services contract with Zurich Municipal for a period of six months.