Issue - meetings

The Cabinet Member for Education and Schools introduced a report on the procurement of a new nursery service which would help to alleviate childcare pressures in Gascoigne, Abbey and Thames wards, together with the Council’s Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report for 2015.

The Cabinet Member explained that the new nursery service would provide 80 full-time equivalent places for children aged between three months and five years.  It was also noted that the contract and co-terminus lease arrangement for the nursery building would be for up to 10 years and tenderers’ submissions would be assessed against a criterion of 95% quality / 5% price.

Cabinet resolved to:

(i)  Agree the procurement of a seven year contract, with an extension option for up to three years, for the provision of nursery services at a new nursery on the Shaftesbury Estate; 

(ii)  Delegate authority to the Corporate Director for Children’s Services, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Education and Schools, the Strategic Director of Finance and Investment and the Head of Legal and Democratic Services, to award and enter into the contract and coterminous lease to the successful bidder in accordance with the strategy; and

(iii)  Note the Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report 2015 as set out at Appendix 1 to the report.