Issue - meetings

With reference to article 23 of the minute of meeting of 30 September 2014, the Committee had before it a report by the Head of Finance which sought approval to extend the current Payment Processing contract, including approval expenditure and to undertake a procurement exercise for the supply of Payment Processing Services.

The report recommended:-

that the Committee –

(a)       approve an extension to the current contract due to end on 31 March 2018 until October 2018; 

(b)       delegate authority to the Revenues and Benefit Manager, Revenues and Benefits following consultation with the aligned Category Manager, Commercial and Procurement Shared Service to undertake an EU Procurement for the procurement and thereafter award of a contract for Payment Processing Services;

(c)       approve the total estimated spend as detailed within the report for the extension of the current contract; and

(d)       approve the total estimated spend as detailed within the report over a 5 year period as detailed in the report.

The Committee resolved:-

to approve the recommendations.