Issue - meetings

Forward Plan Ref: 2023/314

Contact: Gareth Slocombe – Senior Project Manager, Gareth.slocombe@oxfordshire.gov.uk

Report by Corporate Director Environment & Place (CMDIDS6).

To seek delegated authority to the Corporate Director of Envrionment and Place to approve the entering into a Professional Services Contract for the Detailed Design of the Scheme.

The information in this case is exempt in that it falls within the following prescribed categories:

3. Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information)

and since it is considered that, in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information, in that a negotiation is ongoing and would prejudice the position of the authority in the process of that negotiation and the Council’s standing generally in relation to such matters in future, to the detriment of the Council’s ability properly to discharge its fiduciary and other duties as a public authority.

Annex A containing exempt information under the above paragraph is attached.

The Cabinet Member is RECOMMENDED to delegate authority to the Corporate Director of Environment & Place in consultation with the Director of Finance and the Head of Legal Services & Deputy Monitoring Officer to approve the commencement of a Professional Services Contract (for the value given in the Annex A) called off under the Scape Perfect Circle Consultancy Framework (Lot 2) between Scape Procure Limited and with Perfect Circle JV Ltd in relation to the Detailed Design of the Access to Witney / Shore Green Scheme.

Recommendations approved.