Issue - meetings

Cabinet Member: Place, Environment and Climate Action

Forward Plan Ref: 2025/219

Contact: Stephen Gardner, Senior Project Manager (Stephen.Gardner@oxfordshire.gov.uk)

Report by Director of Environment and Highways (CMDPECA6).

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.

The annex containing exempt information under the above paragraph is attached.

The Cabinet Member is RECOMMENDED to:

a)    Approve the award of a contract for the construction of Didcot Science Bridge Scheme under the HIF1 programme to the Preferred Bidder; and

b)    Authorise the Director of Environment and Highways to finalise the contract terms and enter into a construction contract with the Preferred Bidder for the Didcot Science Bridge (DSB) scheme under the HIF1 programme.

The Cabinet Member is RECOMMENDED to:

a) Approve the award of a contract for the construction of Didcot Science

Bridge Scheme under the HIF1 programme to the Preferred Bidder; and

b) Authorise the Director of Environment and Highways to finalise the

contract terms and enter into a construction contract with the Preferred

Bidder for the Didcot Science Bridge (DSB) scheme under the HIF1

programme.

The Chair introduced the item and asked officers to make any points they wished to about the report.

Officers confirmed that extensive procurement processes had taken place and that funding was in place for the scheme.

The Chair asked officers how residents, local Councillors and other local Councils would be kept informed of developments and the progress of the scheme. It was confirmed that drop-in events had been held recently, as well as a planned regular e-newsletter with the latest information.

The Chair thanked officers and agreed to the recommendations in the report.

RESOLVED to:

a)    Approve the award of a contract for the construction of Didcot Science Bridge Scheme under the HIF1 programme to the Preferred Bidder; and

b)    Authorise the Director of Environment and Highways to finalise the contract terms and enter into a construction contract with the Preferred Bidder for the Didcot Science Bridge (DSB) scheme under the HIF1 programme.