Issue - meetings

Chorley Bus Station - Contract Award

 

 

Meeting: 14/11/2024 - Executive Cabinet (Item 41)

Chorley Bus Station - Contract Award

To receive and consider the report of the Director of Planning and Property.

Additional documents:

Decision:

1.    To award the contract to Inleaf which are a local company in Chorley. The cost of the work including an annual maintenance fee is £97,260 following the procurement that has taken place.  

2.    To approve the provisional sum of £17,582.98 for the returned elevation of the green wall (section LW5) following the procurement that has taken place.

3.    To delegate the contract award for the external cladding element of the Bus Station project to the Executive Member for Economic Development and Public Service Reform on the proviso that it is within the agreed budget. (Reason- to spend UKSPF money in line with funding timescales).

Minutes:

Councillor Alistair Bradley, Executive Leader and Executive Member for Economic Development and Public Service Reform, presented the confidential report of the Director of Planning and Property which, following the approval of the procurement strategy to undertake the Chorley Bus Station improvements, sought approval to award the contracts for the living wall and external cladding at the bus station.

 

Resolved (unanimously)

  1. To award the contract to Inleaf which are a local company in Chorley. The cost of the work including an annual maintenance fee is £97,260 following the procurement that has taken place. 
  2. To approve the provisional sum of £17,582.98 for the returned elevation of the green wall (section LW5) following the procurement that has taken place.
  3. To delegate the contract award for the external cladding element of the Bus Station project to the Executive Member for Economic Development and Public Service Reform on the proviso that it is within the agreed budget. (Reason- to spend UKSPF money in line with funding timescales).

 

Reasons for recommendations

  1. To continue with the improvements to Chorley Bus Station
  2. The proposals and funding have already been approved at Cabinet on 22nd February 2024. The Procurement strategy was approved via EMD on 20th August 2024. Following a compliant procurement process, the contract awards now need to be approved for the project to proceed.

 

Other options considered and rejected

No other options considered.