Decision details

1. Approved an injection of £324k for technical consultancy costs funded from HRA capital budget and ESIF grant.
2. Approved the injection of the balance of the ESIF grant (£5.66m - subject to a successful ESIF bid) in addition to the £10,307k approved in Feb 2016 as part of the Housing Leeds capital programme.
3. Provided authority to procure for a tender to appoint a design, build and operate contractor for the Housing DHN.
4. Approved price/quality splits of 40/60 for the Housing DHN design build and operate contract and to approve the evaluation weightings attached in appendix 1.
5. Provided authority to procure, authority to award a contract and authority to spend to allow a direct call off from Lot 16 of the Yorconsult framework for a technical advisor to support both the Housing and Spine DHN up to a value of £200,000.
6. Waived CPR 9.1 that we are not seeking competition as we will be using a direct award procedure through lot 16.
7. Noted that a further more detailed report seeking a key decision for the authority to spend on the remainder of the budget and to seek authority to procure a technical advisor for the remainder of the project will be presented when the scheme reaches design freeze. This is anticipated to be November 2016, alongside the Spine.