Issue - meetings

Cabinet Member: Finance

Forward Plan Ref: 2024/340

Contact: Michael Hawthorne, Project – Property and Assets (Michael.Hawthorne@oxfordshire,gov.uk)

Report by Executive Director of Resources and Section 151 Officer (CMDF5)

The Cabinet Member is RECOMMENDED to:

a)    Approve the release of funding greater than £1m for the provision of construction services to carry out upcoming design and construction works as part of the Phase 1.5 & 2 Asset Rationalisation Project at the Blackbird Leys Children and Family Centre, Union Street, Oxford.

b)    Approve delegation of the authority to procure and award the contracts for the upcoming design, early works and construction works to the Director of Property & Assets in consultation with the Head of Legal and Deputy Monitoring Officer.

The Chair remarked that this project reflects a very sensible asset rationalisation of the staff working in Children’s Services and provision of a better office for them in an area where there is a great deal of need for their services. The Chair agreed to the recommendations in the report.

The Cabinet Member for Finance RESOLVED to:

a) Approve the release of funding greater than £1m for the provision of construction services to carry out upcoming design and construction works as part of the Phase 1.5 & 2 Asset Rationalisation Project at the Blackbird Leys Children and Family Centre, Union Street, Oxford.

b) Approve delegation of the authority to procure and award the contracts for the upcoming design, early works and construction works to the Director of Property & Assets in consultation with the Head of Legal and Deputy Monitoring Officer.