Decision details

Appointment Of Consultant Team For Hartopp & Lannoy Point

Decision Maker: Strategic Director of the Economy Department

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: Yes

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Purpose:

This report seeks approval to award a contract to Faithful & Gould for Core Professional Services (the control team) including Employer’s Agent services, Project Management, Quantity Surveying, and Principle Designer / Construction Design Management (CDM) to support the council to redevelop the Hartopp Point and Lannoy Point Site.

 

Decision:

The Strategic Director for the Economy, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for the Economy:

 

1.    Notes that Appendix 1 is not for publication on the basis that it contains information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information) as set out in paragraph 3 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended).

 

2.    Approves the appointment of Faithful & Gould as the Control Team (for Employers Agent, Project Management, Construction Design Management (CDM) and Quantity Surveyor (QS) services) for the Hartopp & Lannoy Point scheme, for RIBA stages 1-7 with a break clause at the end of RIBA Stage 1.

 

3.    Approves that the contract awarded to Faithful & Gould is at a fixed cost of £38,025 up to the end of RIBA stage 1 and up to a total cost of £609,975 for the full RIBA stages 1 – 7, subject to budgetary approval.

 

4.    Approves the contingency set out in exempt appendix 1 and authorises the Head of Development to take the decisions against the approved contingency sum.

 

Reasons for the decision:

The appointment of the Control Team will enable the Council to progress proposals for a viable planning application enabling the final business cases for each project to be determined.

 

Alternative options considered:

1.     Option 1 –appoint Faithful & Gould as the Control Team for the Hartopp & Lannoy Point.

 

2.     Option 2 – do not appoint Faithful & Gould as the Control Team for Hartopp and Lannoy Point scheme and carry out a new procurement exercise.

 

3.     Option 3 – do not appoint Faithful & Gould as the Control Team, leaving the Hartopp & Lannoy scheme without a Project management team to manage the lead Architect and Design Team in working up proposals.

 

Option 1 is recommended as the preferred approach.

 

Publication date: 16/12/2020

Date of decision: 15/12/2020

Effective from: 21/12/2020

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