(i) The Chief Officer of Highways and Transportation has approved the award of a contract to Johnston Publishing using Regulation 32 (b) (ii) of the Public Contract Regulations 2015 - Negotiated procedure without publication of a notice - on the technical grounds that the advertising of Statutory Notices in the Yorkshire Post can only be provided by Johnston Publishing due to the fact that their publications are the only ones available on a daily basis and which meet the Council’s legal requirements in ensuring that the various statutory legal Notices are ‘published in a newspaper circulating in the locality’, meaning that there is no reasonable alternative; and
(ii) has agreed that the contract is awarded to Johnston Publishing for five years to commence on the 1st April 2019 with provision to extend for up to a further five year period (and can be cancelled at any time). It should be noted that the contract can also be cancelled and not binding if legislation changes to allow notices to be advertised by other means.