Received a report setting out a procurement strategy for Professional Services within the Leisure and Environmental Services Department, to support in-house capability to meet peak workloads, and a proposal for a bespoke contract to achieve this.
The contract will cover multi skill and expertise services and offer a panel of consultants, already vetted and approved, to be called upon by all departments of this Council to assist officers as and when the need arises. The intention being to ensure delivery of projects on a needs basis where in-house capability is already saturated with work.
Agreed, in order to assist the Council in achieving it’s Community Priority of “Making Barking and Dagenham Cleaner, Greener and Safer”, that: