Issue - meetings

Report of the Corporate Director (Resources, Environment and Cultural Services) on the award of contract for the redevelopment of Tewin Road Depot.

Cabinet, in accordance with the unanimous recommendation of the Cross Party Streetscene Mobilisation Board, agreed to approve delegate authority to be given to the Corporate Director (Resources, Environment and Cultural Services), in consultation with the Executive Member (Environment), to award the construction contract to RG Carter Cambridge Limited subject to the following - the construction cost will be no greater than £8.5M; and satisfactory planning is achieved for the redevelopment.

Report of the Corporate Director (Resources, Environment and Cultural Services) on the award of contract for the redevelopment of Tewin Road Depot.

(1)       The Decision Taken

RESOLVED:

Cabinet, in accordance with the unanimous recommendation of the Cross Party Streetscene Mobilisation Board, agreed to approve delegate authority to be given to the Corporate Director (Resources, Environment and Cultural Services), in consultation with the Executive Member (Environment), to award the construction contract to RG Carter Cambridge Limited subject to the following - the construction cost will be no greater than £8.5M; and satisfactory planning is achieved for the redevelopment.

(2)       Reasons for the Decision

Members had previously agreed to re-develop Tewin Road depot into a new modern streetstcene depot and co-locate with a new household waste and recycling facility, which would replace the Cole Green Lane HWRC.

The Cross Party Streetscene Mobilisation Board had been overseeing the procurement of a contractor to design and build the depot.  Cabinet approved the appointment of RG Carter at its meeting on 11 February 2020 to carry out the initial works and in order to avoid any delay in the project, it was unanimously supported by the Cross Party Board to recommend to Cabinet to approve delegated authority to award the contract as outlined in the report.