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Decision details
Hastings Country Park Visitor Centre
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: No
Purpose:
The scheme to build a new country park visitor centre has been re-tendered, and this report is to update Cabinet on the results of the re-tendering process.
Decisions:
Murray Davidson, Environment and Natural Resources Manager presented an update to Cabinet on the results of the re-tendering process for the construction of a new visitor centre at Hastings Country Park and sought approval to let a contract to the preferred bidder.
On 21 May Cabinet approved an increased budget for the visitor centre project reflecting additional EU funding and associated match funding from the council. The authority was also delegated to senior management to let a contract to a named principal contractor co-ordinating a consortium of specialist contractors/artisans to build the new visitor centre. These are specialists in this type of building.
The bid was said to still be within budget, and due diligence had thoroughly been done.
Thanks were given to officers for their work on the project.
Councillor Rogers proposed these recommendations, which was seconded by Councillor Batsford.
RESOLVED (by 6 for, 2 against) that:
1. Delegate authority to the Director of Operational Services and Assistant Director Financial Services and Revenues in consultation with the Lead councillor for Environment, Safety and Equalities to award the contract to build the visitor centre at Hastings Country Park to SIA Design and Build.
Reasons for this Recommendation were:
Following Cabinet decision of 21 May 2018 to award a contract to a named principal contractor and a consortium of straw bale builders to build the visitor centre at Hastings Country Park, the structural and commercial workings of the consortium could not be finalised in an acceptable time.
We therefore re-tendered the project through the Sussex Procurement Hub and a different contractor was identified as the preferred bidder. A Cabinet decision is therefore now required to let the contract to this new principal contractor.
Report author: Mike Hepworth
Publication date: 11/04/2019
Date of decision: 03/12/2018
Decided at meeting: 03/12/2018 - Cabinet
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