Issue - meetings

Background:

This report sought permission to award the procurement of the Housing Revenue Account (HRA) Estate Services and HFIL communal cleaning Contract to Norse Commercial Services Group [Norse], delivered by Medway Norse, following a procurement process.

The report set out that the HRA had a responsibility as a Local Authority landlord to ensure that communal areas that the Council own were kept clean and tidy. Norse had delivered the current communal cleaning contract for the past ten years to the HRA general needs flatted blocks and the last 8 years for the HFIL schemes, through the corporate contract with Norse.

An Exempt Appendix to the report set out financial analysis in relation to the procurement.

Reasons:

The bid received from Norse was most cost effective and was £45,582.38 per annum cheaper than the next nearest competitor. This equates to £217,911.90 over the 5-year contract term.  Additionally, Norse scored the highest across the weighted evaluation questions.