Decision details

Medway Control Centre

Decision Maker: Cabinet

Decision status: Decision made

Is Key decision?: Yes

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Purpose:

This report details the development opportunities for Medway Control Centre.

Decision:

274/2005 These decisions are the most appropriate means of developing the business of the Medway Control Centre to generate additional income and to support service delivery in a number of key areas of Council activity.
275/2005 The Cabinet agreed to waive contract rules and enter into a strategic trading partnership with the company detailed in the exempt report and a hosted technology agreement for the provision of alarms call handling technology for a period of 5 years.
276/2005 The Cabinet agreed that further investigation and costings be undertaken on the feasibility of relocating the control centre and updating the CCTV technology to digital and that this be reported back to Cabinet.
277/2005 The Cabinet agreed that further investigation be undertaken of the most appropriate method to raise the funding to support decision 276/2005 above and that this be reported back to Cabinet.
278/2005 The Cabinet agreed that further work be carried out into the costs and restructuring of the staffing in the control centre and that this be reported back to Cabinet.
279/2005 The Cabinet agreed that contract rules be waived to the extent lawfully necessary to permit this proposal.

Publication date: 29/11/2005

Date of decision: 29/11/2005

Decided at meeting: 29/11/2005 - Cabinet

Effective from: 09/12/2005

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