Decision details

The Cabinet will be asked to approve arrangements relating to the procurement of a Strategic Advisory Framework, which would represent the preferred method of securing strategic services and bring together the Council’s recent requirements for specific technical and investment due-diligence advisors for commercial investments as well the provision of services currently delivered via Elevate which cannot be procured via that route post December 2020.

Cabinet resolved to:

(i)  Approve the procurement of a Strategic Advisory Framework in accordance with the strategy set out in the report; and

(ii)  Delegate authority to the Chief Operating Officer, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Finance, Performance and Core Services and the Director of Law and Governance, to enter into the framework agreements, call off contracts and all other necessary or ancillary agreements with the successful bidder(s) plus any access agreements with participating authorities.