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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:

1. A strategic alliance with the London Borough of Camden be set up in order to produce a Professional Services Team Consultancy Contract, at a total estimated cost of £28,000; and

2. Councillors Geddes and Kallar be appointed to take part in the evaluation and award of contract in accordance with the Constitution Part D Contract Rules.