Issue - meetings

Consideration has been given to:

a)

the Strategic Directors, Economy, Innovation and Growth and Housing, Environment and Healthy Communities and Service Leads, Major Projects and Corporate Property, following consultation with the Strategic Directors, Corporate Resources and Digital and Corporate Services and Governance, being authorised to jointly approve schemes and estimates, and to invite and accept tenders over certain thresholds, during the summer recess following the Cabinet meeting on 19 July 2022 up to the date when Cabinet next meets (currently scheduled for 13 September 2022); and

b)

the Chief Executive, following consultation with the Leader of the Council and in accordance with the terms of the lease between the Council and North Music Trust (dated 30 July 2019) exercising the Council’s authority as landlord to give consent to the renaming of Sage Gateshead.

RESOLVED -

(i)

That the Strategic Director, Economy, Innovation and Growth and the Service Director, Housing, Environment and Healthy Communities and Service Leads, Major Projects and Corporate Property, in consultation with the Strategic Directors, Resources and Digital and Corporate Services and Governance, be authorised to jointly approve the letting of any contracts relating to the Cabinet-approved 2022/2023 Capital Works Programme which exceed £250,000 in value. Such approval is to be in the form of either:

a)

an authorisation to invite or negotiate tenders in accordance with Rule 6 of the Contract Procedure Rules (“the Rules”) or to conduct some other procurement process in accordance with the Rules and to award the contract to the economic operator submitting the most economically advantageous tender as determined by the Service Director, Corporate Commissioning and Procurement in accordance with the stated terms of the tender or other process and, where applicable, the Regulations; or

b)

an authorisation subsequent to the conduct of a tendering process or other procurement process in accordance with the Rules to award the contract.

(ii)

That the Chief Executive be authorised to exercise on behalf of the Council delegated authority to grant consent under Schedule III paragraph 7.6 of the lease dated 30 July 2019 between the Council and the North Music Trust for a change of name for the premises demised under the lease and known as Sage Gateshead.

The above decisions have been made to enable projects to progress and to avoid delay in delivery of the capital programme and its related expenditure and to enable timely consent to be granted for a new name for Sage Gateshead, if so requested by the North Music Trust.