To consider a report of the Governance Committee on Contract Procedure Rules and Procurement Strategy (attached).

Report AGREED without division.

A report of the Governance Committee recommended that Council approve a revised version of the Contract Procedure Rules which set out the process for achieving improved procurement performance, greater efficiency and improvement in the delivery of community and economic outcomes from the Council’s procurement activity.

Council was also asked to note the latest version of the Council’s procurement strategy which reflected recent changes to EU thresholds and the introduction of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.

The report was AGREED without division and it was RESOLVED:

1.      That the draft Contract Procedure Rules set out in Appendix 3 to these minutes be adopted with immediate effect and the Monitoring Officer be authorised to make any such changes as may be necessary to the Council’s Constitution.

2.      That the Procurement Strategy set out in Appendix B to the report to Council be noted..