Minutes:
Decisions:
1.
That the
requirements of Rule 2.2 of the Council’s Contracts Procedure Rules (“CPRS”) be
excluded;
2.
That the
Framework and the Framework Agreements be extended for a period of one calendar
year from 31 May, 2016 to utilise any proposed National Procurement
Service Framework for the eventual appointment of a contractor(s) or
alternatively run its own competitive tender exercise and either of these
exercises be undertaken at the same time as the extension is put in place.
Reason for Decisions:
To
ensure continuity of supply of the Service pending the Authority undertaking a
new procurement exercise to secure a new framework for the Service.
Implementation of
Decisions:
The
decisions are urgent ones for immediate implementation, the Chair of the
Scrutiny Committee had agreed to this course of action and therefore there
would be no call-in of these decisions.