Issue - meetings

to approve the recommendations contained within the exempt report.

The Committee had before it a report by the Head of Commercial and Procurement Services which sought approval to utilise the Scotland Excel Framework Agreement for Outdoor Play Equipment and Safer Surfaces, to conduct Call-Offs including those Call-Offs above £50,000 as long as the spend is within the estimated expenditure as detailed within the report.

The report recommended:-

that the Committee –

(a)       approve the undertaking of Call-Offs for Outdoor Play Equipment and Safer Surfaces, including Call-Offs above £50,000 as long as the expenditure is within the estimated expenditure as detailed in this report;

(b)       approve the estimated expenditure for the Call-Offs as detailed in the Financial Implications Section;

(c)        instruct the Head of the procuring Service to report to this committee on an annual basis with expenditure made within that year and cumulative expenditure against initial estimate (for the period of use of this iteration of the framework); and

(d)       instruct the Head of Education and Children’s Services and the Director of Communities, Housing and Infrastructure to provide the necessary information on expenditure to comply with said reporting requirement.

The Committee resolved:-

to approve the recommendations.