Issue - decisions
Design and cost report and Tender Acceptance for the bulge expansion of Allerton Grange School for September 2020
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Approval of the expenditure of £2,151,200.80
from capital scheme number for the construction work and associated
fees necessary to remodel and refurbish the former CLC on Allerton
Grange School site to accommodate general teaching spaces for
6th form, in order to facilitate a bulge cohort of 60
additional pupils in the main school building from September
2020.
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Authorisation to proceed with acceptance of the
tender submitted via the Leeds Local Education Partnership in the
sum of £2,078,700.80 inclusive of all professional design
fees incurred by the appointed contractor, development costs and
surveys incurred by the contractor. Release of funding for the
construction costs will be subject to valuations completed and
validated by NPS Ltd Leeds.
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Authorisation of the requirement to enter into a
contractual agreement with Leeds D&B One Ltd to deliver the
development at Allerton Grange School. This will take the form of a
JCT 2016 head contract between the authority and Leeds D&B One
Ltd for the sum of £2,078,700.80
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Note that the officer responsible for implementation
is the Head of Service Learning Systems and the Head of Projects
and Programmes, Asset Management & Regeneration and authorise
them as a signatory of all other contract related documentation
that is required to deliver the project.
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decision is taken under the general exception provision and not
subject to call in. The current Covid-19 pandemic places additional
constraints on certainty to maintain programme and meet delivery
for September 2020. Bringing the programme start date forward to
the earliest possible date provides an opportunity to commence
while schools are not fully operational and facilitates changed
working practice under social distance measures which, alongside
potential limited resource capacity, will lengthen delivery
timescales. Any failure to deliver on this site would have a wider
impact on the demand for school places across the city which are
already under pressure.