Purpose

Procurement strategy for partner contractor
for the Avonmore development project

Decision

That
Cabinet:

 

1.         
Notes that
Appendix 2
is not for publication
on the basis that it contains information relating to the financial
or business affairs of any particular person (including the
authority holding that information) as set out in paragraph 3 of
Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972 (as
amended).

 

2.         
Notes that Full Council
approval will be sought for a total Development capital budget,
including contingencies, to deliver the proposed new one form entry
school and associated nursery and SEND facilities and new homes, to
be funded through a combination of HRA 
and GF borrowing, Right to Buy receipts and capital sales receipts
from shared ownership and private leasehold sales, as set out in
exempt Appendix 2.
 

3.         
Authorises the Strategic Head of Regeneration and
Development to take decisions on expenditure against this
contingency budget subject to the continued viability of the
development.
 

4.         
Approves the Procurement Strategy, as set out in
Appendix 3, to procure a principal construction contractor, using a
single stage lump sum JCT standard form of building contract, on a
design and build basis, via a two-step mini competition procurement
route, using the preferred Notting Hill Genesis Framework Agreement
(NHG).
 

That
Full Council:
 

5.         
Approves a total
Development capital budget, to deliver the proposed new school,
nursery and new homes. The budget will be funded through a
combination of HRA and GF borrowing, Right to Buy receipts and
capital sales receipts from shared ownership and private leasehold
sales, as set out in exempt Appendix
2.