The Group Finance Director submitted a report to request that Cabinet delegate authority to the Group Finance Director for the remainder of the current financial year to award any fleet contracts valued in excess of £750k following a compliant procurement process. 

Cabinet is recommended to:

-       Delegate authority, for the remainder of the current financial year, to the Group Finance Director to award contracts with values in excess of £750k for the purchase of fleet vehicles.  

Cabinet resolved to:

-       Delegate authority, for the remainder of the current financial year, to the Group Finance Director to award contracts with values in excess of £750k for the purchase of fleet vehicles.  

The Group Finance Director submitted a report to request that Cabinet delegate authority to the Group Finance Director for the remainder of the current financial year to award any fleet contracts valued in excess of £750k following a compliant procurement process. 

Councillor Chapman presented the report. He said that the report was before them to delegate authority to the Group Finance director for the remainder of the current financial year to award any fleet contracts valued in excess of £750k following a compliant procurement process. He outlined how this would give them more flexibility and renew the fleet to ensure they avoid any service delivery impacts.

The Strategic Procurement Manager said that this decision would help to be more agile and avoid the bottleneck they had around renewing fleet contracts. She noted that a table in the report had missed off a noting of 27 commercial vans which they intend to buy.

Noting the addition to the report,

Cabinet resolved to: 

-       Delegate authority, for the remainder of the current financial year, to the Group Finance Director to award contracts with values in excess of £750k for the purchase of fleet vehicles.  

Councillor Turner left the meeting during this item at 19:05.