Decision details

Resolved:-

1.1 That approval be given for an exemption to the council’s Procurement and Contract Procedure Rules, to enable the Council to enter into individual contracts with Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) approved institutions and independent specialist institutions named in the approved list under Section 41 of the act.

1.2 Authorise this exemption under Contract Procedure Rule 15.8 to enable the course of action referred to in 1.1 above to proceed where ‘genuine sole suppliers’ for certain goods, service or works where it can be evidenced that there is no benefit in undertaking a procurement exercise’, an automatic exemption is given to the following types of contract or activity - Patient or Pupil choice and Sole Suppliers/Providers

1.3 That the Director of Children’s Services and Education be authorised to procure and award contracts to approved Education and Skills Funding Agency institutions.