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Cabinet:

a)     Approvedin principle the procurement of a two stage tender to replace the rainscreen cladding,AOVs, windows and roofing and install sprinklers and LD1 fire alarms at Highfield Towers comprising Pre-Construction Services (Stage 1) and Works (Stage 2) utilising the LHC – Fire Safety (FS2) Lot 7A framework with a combined indicative value of £7.5Million. 

b)     Approved a waiver of the Council’s default evaluation criteria of 70% Price: 30% Quality and instead award the contracts on the MEAT basis of a 60% Quality, 30% Price, and 10% Social Value weighting for the reasons set out in Section 7 of this report, Procurement Route. 

c)     Delegated the approval of the award of the Pre-Construction Services Agreement (Stage 1) and the works contract (Stage 2) to the Strategic Director of Place, acting in consultation with the Strategic Director of Resources and the Deputy Director of Legal & Governance. 

d)     Delegated the change of procurement route from a framework to a Dynamic Procurement system (DPS), if required, to the Strategic Director of Place.