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Delegated authority to award for Newly Built Civic Centre Telephony Services Contract
Meeting: 18/06/2012 - Executive (Item 11)
11 Delegated authority to award for newly built Civic Centre Telephony Services Contract 
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This report concerns the future provision of the Council’s Telephony Services. This report requests approval of delegated authority to the Director of Finance and Corporate Services to award the Telephony Services contract.
Additional documents:
- PINK fcs-telephony-civic-centre-v2 , View reasons restricted (11/2)
Decision:
(i) that the process to be followed for the procurement of a telephony services contract for the newly built civic centre be noted;
(ii) that the Director of Finance and Corporate Services be authorised in consultation with the Director of Legal and Procurement to award the contract for telephony services following the evaluation of tender submissions in accordance with the approved evaluation criteria referred to in paragraph 3.13 of the report from the Director of Finance and Corporate Services.
Minutes:
Councillor R Moher (Lead Member, Finance and Corporate Resources) introduced the report which concerned the future provision of the council’s Telephony Services particularly in the light of the forthcoming move the new Civic Centre. The new solution would allow all staff to be able to work flexibly and the successful vendor was expected to invest the necessary equipment to provide services. In view of the timescales the report requested approval of delegated authority to the Director of Finance and Corporate Services to award the Telephony Services contract.
The Executive also had before them an appendix to the report which was not for publication as it contained the following category of exempt information as specified in Schedule 12 of the Local Government (Access to Information Act) 1972: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 in respect of which a claim to legal professional privilege could be maintained in legal proceedings.
RESOLVED:-
(i) that the process to be followed for the procurement of a telephony services contract for the newly built civic centre be noted;
(ii) that the Director of Finance and Corporate Services be authorised in consultation with the Director of Legal and Procurement to award the contract for telephony services following the evaluation of tender submissions in accordance with the approved evaluation criteria referred to in paragraph 3.13 of the report from the Director of Finance and Corporate Services.