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Forward Plan Ref: 2023/250

Contact: Steve Burdis , Joint Group Manager (Waste Management), steve.burdis@oxfordshire.gov.uk

Report by Corporate Director Environment & Place (CMDCCDE5).

To determine the contractual way forward for The Management of Household Waste Recycling Centres In Oxfordshire Contract.

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 1 containing exempt information under the above paragraph is attached.

The Cabinet Member is RECOMMENDED to

a)                  Approve that the current Contract for: The Management of Household Waste Recycling Centres in Oxfordshire be extended for the full period of 3 years; and

b)                  Delegate to the Corporate Director of Environment Place, in consultation with the Section 151 Officer and Cabinet Portfolio Holder, finalisation of the contract 3- year extension and the contract amendments, as detailed in Annex 1, to alleviate some of the current contract challenges to deliver service contract improvements.

Recommendations approved.