Issue - meetings

Cllr L D Carter

Key Decision identified as Procurement Update in the Notice of Key Decisions published on 14 August 2019.

Councillor L D Carter, Cabinet Member: Finance, Commercial Services & the Borough Economy presented the report of the Assistant Director: Governance, Procurement & Commissioning which provided an update on the Council’s Procurement Intentions Document and the latest information regarding effective procurement and contract management.

It was noted that the council wide procurement continued to drive savings through robust competitive tendering and real time negotiation when brokering services.

Government had urged Councils to ‘be bold’ in their approaches to social value and ensure that bidders are not restricted or unintentionally excluded by making social value complicated.  The Council’s procurement officers had recently supported a construction event held at Flaxmill, Shrewsbury, to assist local suppliers with top tips on supporting social value.  The Live Well Telford website offered an invaluable link to bidders to enable them to understand organisations they could link with in the borough who could support their social value offer.

The report included details of the social value delivered by Balfour Beatty as part of the contract for the railway link bridge and explanation of how Veolia have met their social value commitment in their contracts with the Council. 

In 2018, the council had become a ‘carer friendly employer’ and was also working towards being a Disability Confident Employer aided by the voluntary Government scheme.  

The regular Procurement Intentions Document was set out at Appendix 1 to the report. The document presented up and coming procurements for the next few months.

The report was welcomed.

RESOLVED that –

(a)  the procurement  updates in the report be noted; and

(b)  the Procurement Intentions Document (Appendix 1 to the report) be noted and, where indicated, authority be delegated to the appropriate officers (as per the Contract Procedure Rules) to progress new procurements through the tender process to contract award.