Decision details

Before the Committee was a report by the Director for Housing and Communities, copies of which had been circulated to all Members and a copy of which is attached to the signed copy of these minutes as Item 11.

As part of the Adur Homes Improvement Plan, officers have been developing a maintenance programme, which is a critical part of providing residents with decent homes.

As part of the programme the paper set out a proposal to use what was referred to as a ‘multi disciplinary consultant’ (MDC) to project manage a minimum of eight contracts over a three year period of time with the added extension options included.

The MDC role which broadly includes pre-contract design, undertaking surveys, and cost planning and further details are detailed in 4.3 below.

Members were told of the role of this consultant and options were set out for Members to consider. It proposed the appointment of one Multi Disciplinary Consultant to manage the contracted packages of work with the appointed contractor(s). This work would be required for the purposes of obtaining key information to inform the overall scope of work and tender documents and subsequent contract management.

Decision:

1.    That the appointment of a multi disciplinary consultant for an initial three year period be approved for the essential contract professional services required for the development, procurement and management of contracts entered into.

2.    That the spend be authorised in respect of the MDC to cover 8 work areas detailed in section 3.3 over a 3 year period. The spend is in accordance with procurement consortium tender price of 4.24% of full contract value and detailed further in section 7.3.

Call In: The call-in deadline for decisions will be 5.00pm on 20 December 2024