The Interim Group Finance Director submitted a report to Cabinet to request that Cabinet delegate authority to the Interim Group Finance Director for the 2026/27 financial year to award any fleet contracts valued in excess of £750k following a compliant procurement process.

Cabinet is recommended to:

1.    Delegate authority, to the Interim Group Finance Director for the duration of the 2026/27 financial year to award contracts with values over the Key Decision threshold for the purchase of fleet vehicles.

Cabinet resolved to:

Delegate authority, to the Interim Group Finance Director for the duration of the 2026/27 financial year to award contracts with values over the Key Decision threshold for the purchase of fleet vehicles.

The Interim Group Finance Director submitted a report to Cabinet to request that Cabinet delegate authority to the Interim Group Finance Director for the 2026/27 financial year to award any fleet contracts valued in excess of £750k following a compliant procurement process.

Annette Osborne, Strategic Procurement Manager, presented the report. She noted that this was a similar report to the one which Cabinet had approved in the previous year. She outlined the recommendations of the report and the procurements they believe will be undertaken in the coming year.

Councillor Linda Smith asked what opportunities there were in the procurement process to buy British vehicles to support British manufacturing and the British economy.

The Strategic Procurement Manager said that procurements for fleet were all call offs from a framework. She said that this was dependant on supplies listed in framework. She said that they had specific requirements for vehicles which limited where they could procure them from. She said that where possible they would try to build this in, but this would not always be possible.

Cabinet resolved to:

Delegate authority, to the Interim Group Finance Director for the duration of the 2026/27 financial year to award contracts with values over the Key Decision threshold for the purchase of fleet vehicles.