Agenda item

Minutes:

The Committee:

 

·     Approved the public advertisement of tenders as per Standing Order 37a detailed in Appendix 1 (Table 1);

 

·     Approved the award of STAs in line with Standing Order 55 exceptions as detailed in Appendix 1 (Table 2); and

 

·     In relation to the ‘Provision of Sharps Boxes Services’ contract, agreed that a report be submitted to a future committee to outline the volume of usage and resources of the issue, together with the work being undertaken with community organisations.

 

Table 1: Competitive Tenders

 

Title of Tender

Proposed Contract Duration

Est. Max Contract Value

SRO

Short description of goods / services

On published pipeline (Y/N)

 

Prior Committee approval (Y/N) If Y name Committee & Date

External Funding (Y/N)

Email filtering to remove spam and malware in emails

Up to 3 years

£150,000

S McNicholl

Without a filtering solution like this BCC would receive a large number of spam and malware emails. This would increase the risk of a cyber attack

N

N

N

Urban Meadows Creation Works – in relation to a Notice of Motion

Up to 1 year

£50,000

S Leonard

Required under a Notice of Motion to create 4 new urban meadows across the city

N

Y – P&C Oct 25

N

The repair, deployment, filling and storage of 20 beacons

Up to 36 months

£172,000

J Girvan

A supplier is required to carry out these works prior to the delivery of the annual Beacon programme on July 11th.

N

N

N

Fairground rides and entertainment package for events

Up to 4 years

£480,000

D Sales

Service required to support wide range of Council events held throughout the year. May also be used to support Fleadh requirements as well.

N

N

N

Provision of fuels; Diesel, Gas Oil, Kerosene & Ad Blue

Up to 3 years

£500,000

D Sales

Required to fuel various machines, plant items and buildings throughout the Council’s estate

N

N

N

Collection, treatment and recycling of hard plastics

Up to 4 years

£650,000

D Sales

Service required to support recycling of hard plastics from household recycling centres by our waste management team. 

 

N

N

N

Provision of Sharps Boxes Services

Up to 3 years

£90,000

D Sales

Specialist and suitable certified contractor to provide a sharp boxes service. Service includes supply of sharps/ needle boxes to designated street and parks locations and safe removal/ disposal of same.

N

N

N

Public protection software for the provision of a Case Management Solution for NI HMO.

Up to 3 years

£85,000

P Gribben

For the continued use of the current public protection software system for NI Housing of Multiple Occupation ‘HMOs’. It is a regional service. BCC provide the service, collect all the fees and licence HMOs for all Councils in NI. All Councils have licences and access to the system.

N

N

N

 

 

 

 

 

Table 2: Single Tender Actions

 

Title

Duration

Est. Max Contract Value

SRO

Description

Supplier

STA

Reason

 

Other Committee approval (Y/N) If Y name Committee & Date

External Funding (Y/N)

Pest control services across BCC sites

Up to 1 year

£80,000

N Largey

A STA is recommended with Termapest to regularise this off contract spend until insourcing project is complete. This is estimated to be completed within 6 to 12 months; STA to cover up to 12 months as open tender exercise will take up to 6 months to complete.

No fixed term contract will be created with Termapest as part of this STA so spend with Termapest will cease once insourcing project is complete.

Termapest Ltd

11.

N

N

Support and maintenance of E-Bravo tendering solution

Up to 2 years

£111,146

S McNicholl

Annual license for the continued use of E-Bravo to support the Council’s procurement teams and publishing tenders electronically. Exploring options about delivering through e5 financial system and their procurement module.

Bravo Solutions (Jaggaer)

3.

N

N

Tricostar Case Management solution

Up to 3 years

£46,304

P Gribben

The current system delivers functionality which is required in Legal Services to manage case files along with associated documents / correspondence. There is no other supplier who can offer the license and support requirements for this solution

Tricostar Software Ltd

3.

N

N