Agenda item

Cabinet Member: Cabinet Member for Resources & Financial Governance, Councillor Callton Young

Officer: Executive Director of Resources, Jacqueline Harris Baker

Key decision: no

The Leader of the Council delegated authority to the Cabinet to make the following decisions:

RESOLVED: To approve the awards of the Gas & Electricity Supplies Contracts in accordance with the recommendations set out in the report at agenda item 8a, as set out in section 4.1.1 of the report.

RESOLVED: To note

1.    The contracts between £500,000 and £5,000,000 anticipated to be awarded by the nominated Cabinet Member, in consultation with the nominated Cabinet Member for Resources and Financial Governance or, where the nominated Cabinet Member is the Cabinet Member for Resources and Financial Governance, in consultation with the Leader, as set out in section 4.2.1 of the report.

2.    The list of delegated award decisions made by the Director of Commissioning and Procurement, between 25/09/2020 – 19/10/2020, as set out in section 4.2.2 of the report.

The Cabinet Member for Resources & Financial Governance, Councillor Callton Young, introduced the report and highlighted that the report included the contracts on electricity and gas supplies. He informed Cabinet that the council’s Contracts and Commissioning Board recommended that the award of the corporate contracts were approved, and that the framework agreements for electricity and gas supply set out in Part B of the report be agreed for three years, with the option to extend for one further year.

In response to the Shadow Cabinet Member for Finance & Resources, it was confirmed that an asset fire sale was not essential, but was good practise to ensure the expertise were sought to receive the correct advice on valuations.

The Shadow Cabinet Member for Culture, Leisure & Sport (Job Share), Councillor Vidhi Mohan, noted that the telephone parking contract was going to cost the council approximately £950,000 over four years, and asked how much the council would earn from parking charges above the £950,000 over the course of the next four years. He further asked if a risk assessment had been done in regards to this revenue, and if mitigation measures had been put in place. The Executive Director of Place agreed to respond to Councillor Mohan with an answer.

The Shadow Cabinet Member for Transport, Environment & Regeneration, Councillor Gareth Streeter, further asked, on the telephone parking charges, why an equalities assessment was not completed, as it was thought older residents could be impacted by this. The Cabinet Member for Resources & Financial Governance agreed to take a view and feedback any details to Councillor Streeter regarding the equalities work which had been done regarding this contract.

The Leader of the Council delegated authority to the Cabinet to make the following decisions:

RESOLVED: To approve the awards of the Gas & Electricity Supplies Contracts in accordance with the recommendations set out in the report at agenda item 8a, as set out in section 4.1.1 of the report.

RESOLVED: To note

1.    The contracts between £500,000 and £5,000,000 anticipated to be awarded by the nominated Cabinet Member, in consultation with the nominated Cabinet Member for Resources and Financial Governance or, where the nominated Cabinet Member is the Cabinet Member for Resources and Financial Governance, in consultation with the Leader, as set out in section 4.2.1 of the report.

2.    The list of delegated award decisions made by the Director of Commissioning and Procurement, between 25/09/2020 – 19/10/2020, as set out in section 4.2.2 of the report.