Decisions

The Department for Education requires Local Authorities to set term dates for community and voluntary controlled schools, community special schools and maintained nursery schools. The Education (School Day and School Year) (England) Regulations 1999 (SI 1999 No. 3181) requires schools to have at least 380 half-day sessions (190 days) in each school year, beginning with the first term to start after July. This is consistent with the 195 days a year required by a teacher's statutory conditions of service: the additional five days are for in-service training (known as INSET days).

Following consultation to proceed with the proposed school term dates for the academic year 2020/2021.

Bristol City Council entered into a contract with Perfect Circle to provide multi-disciplinary consultancy services to submit an Outline Planning Application with design codes for Hengrove Park. The application was taken to Development Control Committee on 27th February 2019 and refused by the Committee. Following discussions with the Cabinet Member for Housing, the Council will resubmit a new Outline Planning Application for Hengrove Park responding to the reasons for refusal.

Appoint Perfect Circle to submit a new Outline Planning Application with Design Codes for Hengrove Park, under the Council’s existing contract with Perfect Circle as a Supplementary Workpackage.

To bring the property back into use to accelerate the provision of housing to meet the Mayors target of building 2000 homes a year – 800 affordable a year by 2020.

To enter into a contract with Perfect Circle JV Ltd to undertake
feasibility, design, planning and contract management of refurbishment works.

The current procurement is in process but has been delayed due to the complexity of requirements with the CCTV and the wider network and the growing importance of fibre and interdependencies across the council and the city, more time has been needed than anticipated to resource and write the requirements. The procurement is not expected to conclude until end of December 2019 and time may be needed for on-boarding any new supplier.

There is a need to extend the existing contract for Fibre with Select Electrics Ltd by up to 12 months in increments of 6 months plus 3 months plus 3 months, which would provide 12 months to end July 2020. This will allow for current OJEU procurement process to run and on-boarding/implementation period. This extension has a value increase of £400K, which is 10% of the contract value of £4 Million.

Bristol City Council entered into a conditional Sale Agreement with the University of Bristol for sale of the Cattle Market Road site and a portion of the Temple Island site for development of the University’s new Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus. The sale is conditional on a number of issues being resolved by BCC, including works on site in preparation of future development; this includes demolition of the former sorting office building and ground works.
During the preconstruction and enabling works phases, site trials revealed the construction of the basement to the former sorting office building to be more complex than could be envisaged, and is further complicated by proximity to the Grade I listed Network Rail station and floating harbour, affecting methodology for removal.
The Council has been working in collaboration with the University of Bristol to identify a more efficient solution to the site works in order to minimise cost and risk to the Council. Site trials are required to verify an alternative methodology to resolve the issues around the existing basement, which could result in a more efficient solution.

Approval for additional budget of £140,000 to allow critical site trials to take place on the Cattle Market Road site; these investigations will inform the methodology for subsequent works to the basement of the former sorting office building, and could result in a significant overall saving due to a more efficient methodology being adopted
Approval for variation to the existing contract with Kier Construction Limited by £140,000 in association with the above site trials
Approval to receive income of £140,000 in association with the above site investigations

As a result of a competitive procurement a new supplier will be in place for this 4 year contract as awarding to the supplier whom scored the highest against the published evaluation criteria.

Following a competitive tender for Video Management System and interface support and maintenance, a 4 year contract is to be placed with Tyco Fire