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Additional costs for Jacobs as NEC PM team for Harbour Walkway

Decision Maker: Director: Economy of Place

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Purpose:

Jacobs, via Perfect Circle, have provided the NEC Project Management and Supervision team for the Harbour Walkway project since 2018. Because of the delays caused by the recent harbour bank failure and other delays encountered as part of the construction, further funding is required to pay for their time between June 2024 and January 2025. Their costs from February 2025 are covered in a separate Committee report to 6 February Transport and Connectivity Committee.

Decision:

To accept Perfect Circle compensation event 3821-002 CE002 and permit an order to be raised for £143,987.23.

Alternative options considered:

Option 1 - The only alternative option would be not to retain Jacobs’s services and not deliver the Harbour Walkway project that is a live construction site in a marine environment that no BCC staff would be qualified to take on, and to change consultancy at this stage would ultimately cost more money.

Publication date: 29/01/2025

Date of decision: 27/01/2025