Issue - meetings

To consider a report by the Head of Environment and Transport regarding the tender process for the Kent Road Environmental Improvements Scheme.

Subject to such reductions in the specification as may be negotiated and agreed by the Director of Operational Services to award the contract for Kent Road Environmenal Improvements to J Breheny. Approved a supplementary capital estimate of £243,000 to meet the net cost of the scheme.

(The Chairman announced that he proposed to admit a second report by the Head of Environment and Transport as a matter of urgency in accordance with Section 100B(4) of the Local Government  Act 1972 in view of the receipt of additional information which revised information and recommendations contained in the report appended to the agenda).

The Cabinet considered reports by the Head of Environment and Transport (copies of which are appended as an Annex to the Minute Book) in respect of tenders received for an environmental improvement scheme at Kent Road, Oxmoor, Huntingdon.

Having expressed their concerns in relation to the difference between the lowest tender and the provision made in the budget for the scheme, the Cabinet

RESOLVED

(a)  that, subject to such reductions in the specification as may be negotiated and agreed by the Director of Operational Services, the contract for Kent Road Environmental Improvements be awarded to J Breheny; and

(b)  that approval be given to a supplementary capital estimate of £243,000 to meet the net additional cost of the scheme.