Agenda and decisions

Delegated Decisions by Cabinet Member for Community & Corporate Services - Tuesday, 21 November 2023 3.00 pm

Venue: Room 1 - County Hall, New Road, Oxford OX1 1ND. View directions

Link: video link https://oxon.cc/DDCMCCS21112023

Items
No. Item

1.

Declarations of Interest

See guidance below.

 

2.

Questions from County Councillors

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The number of questions which may be asked by any councillor at any one meeting is limited to two (or one question with notice and a supplementary question at the meeting) and the time for questions will be limited to 30 minutes in total. As with questions at Council, any questions which remain unanswered at the end of this item will receive a written response.

 

Questions submitted prior to the agenda being despatched are shown below and will be the subject of a response from the appropriate Cabinet Member or such other councillor or officer as is determined by the Cabinet Member, and shall not be the subject of further debate at this meeting. Questions received after the despatch of the agenda, but before the deadline, will be shown on the Schedule of Addenda circulated at the meeting, together with any written response which is available at that time.

 

3.

Petitions and Public Address

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4.

GIS software license and maintenance renewal pdf icon PDF 219 KB

Cabinet Member: Corporate Services

Forward Plan Ref: 2023/264

Contact: Anne Kearsley, GIS Solutions Manager, anne.kearsley@oxfordshire.gov.uk

 

Report by Director of Finance

 

The Cabinet Member is RECOMMENDED to:

 

a)                  Authorise officers to procure geographic information software

 

b)                  Delegate the award of the contract to the Director of IT Innovation and Digital Services for Geographic Information Software licensing and maintenance.

 

 

Additional documents:

Decision:

Recommendations approved.

 

5.

Zscaler Internet and Application Security and Access pdf icon PDF 201 KB

Cabinet Member: Corporate Services

Forward Plan Ref: 2023/268

Contact: Alastair Reed, Head of IT, Alastair.reed@oxfordshire.gov,uk

 

Report by Director of Finance

 

The Cabinet Member is RECOMMENDED to

 

a)                  authorise the procurement of a suitable supplier to provide Zscaler Cyber Protection; and

 

b)                  delegate authority to the Director IT Innovation and Digital Services to award either a 1- or 3-year contract following the conclusion of the procurement exercise.

 

Decision:

Recommendations approved.

 

6.

Laptop Refresh

Forward Plan Ref: 2023/328

Contact: Alastair Read, Head of IT, alastair.read@oxfordshire.gov.uk

 

Report by Director of Finance

 

To approve the contract to Partner with a 3rd party to supply OCC’s enduser devices eg Laptops. As agreed in the 19-24 IT Strategy.

 

Additional documents:

Decision:

RESOLVED: to award the contract to the winning supplier.