Issue - decisions

(i)         that the increase in scheme costs by £400,000 from £2.2m to 2.6m be noted, and that this will be funded from the Schools Main Capital Programme at £1m and £1.6m is to be resourced from BNSV monies;

(ii)        that authority be delegated to the Director of Regeneration and Major Projects to appoint and award a contract to the preferred ‘Contractor A’, who is named in Appendix 3 to the Director’s report and is a contractor from the IESE Framework Agreement in relation to the construction works at Park Lane Primary School, to not exceed £2.35m, subject to an adjustment as considered necessary to the Main Capital Programme, in accordance with the needs of other schools expansion projects on this resource and with the agreement of the Director of Finance and Corporate Services.