164 Award of Contract for St Gerard's football pitch project
Report of the Deputy Chief Executive enclosed.
Additional documents:
Decision:
Decision taken (unanimously):
That recommendations 2 and 3 of the confidential report be approved.
Minutes:
The Cabinet Member for Health, Wellbeing and Leisure presented a report of the Director of Neighbourhoods and Development bringing the St Gerard’s Football Pitch project back before members following an open tender process to seek permission to spend the allocated capital budget and award the contract to the Preferred Bidder identified by the procurement process.
Decision taken (unanimously):
That recommendations 2 and 3 of the confidential report be approved.
Reasons for Decision
The St Gerard’s project relates to a specific S106 amount of funding available for the development of a new football pitch at the club. The money has been built into the Council’s capital programme. As part of the green links programme the project was also highlighted in a report to Cabinet in June 2019. We have now reached the stage of requesting Cabinet to award the contract to allow works to begin.
Alternative options considered and rejected
The alternative option was to do nothing, however this was rejected for the reasons given above.