Decision Maker: Assistant Director - Property, Procurement & Commercial
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
A Key Decision is required in relation to the
Office Furniture contract in order to utilise the available
contract extension from 1 April 2024 – 31 March 2025.
Approval for the extension has been granted through the Gateway
process, and while spend under the contract isn’t expected to
breach the £500,000 expenditure threshold to trigger a Key
Decision, the addition of spend for all legacy authorities
following LGR has increased the anticipated whole life cost.
A Key Decision is being taken as the anticipated whole life cost
falls close to the threshold and with spend against this contract
being variable, there is a risk the threshold may be
exceeded.
To extend the existing contract for a period
of 12 months from 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025.
There have been no issues with the current
contract / supplier. Prices are fixed through both the initial term
and extension period. Secondly, in response to the Local Government
Reorganisation (LGR), the Authority is going through a period of
transformation where the requirements of the new single authority
are yet to be fully understood. A review of the property portfolio
is being undertaken and as such spend for the 12 month extension
period will be greatly reduced on previous years.
The extension of the existing contract will provide stability while
the transformation work is completed and future requirements
established, ahead of going back out to market for a new contract
from 1 April 2025.
None given.
Publication date: 29/01/2024
Date of decision: 23/01/2024
Effective from: 06/02/2024
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