Issue - meetings

Forward Plan Ref: 2023/320

Contact: Jason O’Sullivan, Senior Project Manager, jason.o’sullivan@oxfordshire.gov.uk

Report by Corporate Director Environment & Place.

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.

The annex 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  complete the  NEC4 Professional Service Contract (for the value given in the Annex A) with Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering Ltd acting as agent for Balfour Beatty Group Limited to be called off under the SCAPE Civil Engineering Gen3 Framework in relation to the Detailed Design of the A40 HIF2 scheme together with all related ancillary agreements [such as, Parent company guarantee and collateral warranties].

Recommendation approved.