i. Approves the award of two contracts, one for advice based services and the other for infrastructure services, as detailed as Option 4, paragraph 3.5 of the report;
ii. That the contract term and funding be until the 31st March 2020;
iii. That the overall budget model be Option 3 (amended) as detailed in the first Table in paragraph 4.4 of the report;
iv. Approves the funding split for the contracts as 65% to 35% in favour of advice based services but with flexibility through negotiated contract award of 10% either way; and
v. That the existing Task and Finish Group be retained and to work with the Executive Councillor for Community Resilience to develop the contract terms including performance metrics and reporting frameworks.