To seek approval to progress the retendering of the separate construction building maintenance and facilities management cleaning services contracts and to authorise officers to award contract to put in place a new combined service delivery arrangement for 1 April 2018.
The existing two contracts for building maintenance and building cleaning services are due to end on 31 March 2018 having previously been extended once. Whilst a longer term aim is to move to an outcomes based commissioning model there is insufficient time to develop such a specification and complete a procurement before the existing contracts terminate. A separate report on the reasons for this outcome spec being preferred is being developed for leaders briefing It is therefore proposed to commission, as a single service, based on the existing specification for a limited period of two years, to allow for the development and procurement of an outcomes based service.