Decision details

Environmental Services Re-provision

Decision Maker: Cabinet

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Decision:

2.1       Cabinet, subject to confirmation of commitments after the Alcatel standstill period, appointed Bidder B as the Preferred Bidder and agreed to award the Environmental Services Contract for a period of 10 years, at a price of £97,697,867 (not including indexation /inflation), with an option to extend by mutual agreement for up to a further 10 years, subject to satisfactory performance of the contract and Cabinet approval nearer that time.

 

2.2       Cabinet delegated to the Director of Customers and Communities, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Environment, authority to do all that would be reasonably required, necessary and appropriate to implement Cabinet’s decision to award the contract to the Preferred Bidder and to achieve successful completion of the environmental services procurement process, including:

·         Agreeing terms and entering into leases, in line with the Preferred Bidder’s property, vehicle, equipment and container proposals

·         Providing final approval and execution of the contract following confirmation of commitments.

 

2.3       Cabinet approved, in accordance with the advice of the Council’s Chief Finance Officer, expenditure of £11.938m into the capital programme, funded by borrowing with up to £10m of the Minimum Revenue and interest charges being offset by the use of existing reserves for the vehicles, equipment and containers that would be used to provide the new environmental services contract.

 

2.4       Cabinet agreed, in accordance with the advice of the Council’s advisors that the Council would pay for the cost of bringing the facilities up to standard at the Council owned Westbridge Depot, at the price provided for this work by the Preferred Bidder of £450,038, the sum to be included for in the Capital programme for 2018-19.

 

2.5       Cabinet noted the impact on the revenue budget of the contract was £11.128m for 2018/19 which had been factored into the budget to be approved by Council in February 2018.

 

Publication date: 18/01/2018

Date of decision: 17/01/2018

Decided at meeting: 17/01/2018 - Cabinet

Effective from: 24/01/2018

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