Authorised that alongside the Department for Infrastructure (DFI) and other
councils, BCC would jointly award a contract to TerraQuest Solutions to provide a replacement
regional planning IT system for up to 20 years, as set out in the
Full Business Case issued by DFI in March 2020.
This would be based on a “Commercial Off The Shelf” product with some local
configuration for each Planning Authority and would be subject to
the following:
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the Department and a minimum of 10 Planning
Authorities to agree the award of the contract by June
2020;
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the capital cost to Local Government to be split
evenly between councils and operating costs to be split according
to fee income (as set out in the Funding Proposal accompanying the
Full Business Case) but fixed for at least three years to aid
financial planning;
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satisfactory scrutiny of the full costs model by
officers;
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a satisfactory Gateway Review providing independent
assurance of the project (due to take place the last week in
April); and
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BCC to be part of the first wave of councils to
implement the new IT system.