Issue - meetings

Further to Minute 64 (14 November 2017), the Cabinet Member for Educational Attainment and School Improvement reported on the proposal to vary the procurement strategy for a cashless catering hardware replacement system including software upgrade, support, installation and maintenance of the new system.

The Cabinet Member explained that it was now proposed to follow a Restricted Procurement route, in order to engage and elicit responses from the entire market while restricting the number of tender submissions received to a manageable quantity.  The scope of the contract had also been varied to provide for additional functional requirements.

The Cabinet resolved to:

(i)  Approve the revised approach for the procurement of supplies and services’ contracts for the provision of a cashless catering and online payment solution, in accordance with the strategy set out in the report; and

(ii)  Delegate authority to the Commissioning Director for Children’s Care and Support, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Educational Attainment and School Improvement, the Chief Operating Officer and the Director of Law and Governance, to award and enter into the contract(s) with the successful bidder(s).