Issue - meetings

Background:

This report provided details of the outcome of the tender process for the award of a contract for building works at Twydall Primary School, Gillingham.

It was noted that the key aims for this project wereto join the previous Infant and Junior Schools with a fully enclosed linking corridor, as well as a new building incorporating staff and administration accommodation and a combined entrance for the newly amalgamated Primary School. Some of the vacated accommodation in the old Junior building, plus areas identified in the old Infant building and Nursery, would be developed to create a specialist unit for children with hearing impairments and cochlear implants. Work to deliver this specialist provision would be undertaken as a separate project using funding allocated by the council to provide additional special education needs provision.

The Strategic Procurement Board had approved this Procurement Gateway 3 Report on 30 November 2011 for submission to Cabinet.

An exempt appendix contained key information on finance and whole-life costings and detailed procurement process tender evaluation information.

Reasons:

The procurement will deliver the objectives outlined in the business case and summarised in Section 4.1, to provide accommodation to enable the school to offer a much improved teaching and learning environment to the children at the school.