Issue - meetings

That:

1)        agreement be given to the commencement of the implementation of a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for the recommissioning and award of all the Council’s passenger transport contracts;

2)        the implementation of the Proactis (Procontract) Dynamic Purchasing System be approved;

3)        for future transport contract award decisions over £500k the DPS would be delegated to the Director for Localities and Customer Services, in consultation with the Lead Member for Transport;

4)        any real savings derived from the implementation of a DPS be referred to Overview and Scrutiny Committee once ascertained.

The Executive considered a report relating to a procurement business case for the proposed acquisition of a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for the recommissioning and awarding of all the Council’s passenger transport contracts.

The Executive Member for Highways and Transport informed the meeting that the proposal was simply to switch on some functionality that the Council already owned therefore there was no cost associated with the proposal.  The DPS would enable dynamic purchasing which would be in line with OJEU requirements and would allow the Council to purchase services from a subset of already verified suppliers, which should speed the process up and be more cost effective. 

RESOLVED that:

1)        agreement be given to the commencement of the implementation of a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for the recommissioning and award of all the Council’s passenger transport contracts;

2)        the implementation of the Proactis (Procontract) Dynamic Purchasing System be approved;

3)        for future transport contract award decisions over £500k the DPS would be delegated to the Director for Localities and Customer Services, in consultation with the Lead Member for Transport;

4)        any real savings derived from the implementation of a DPS be referred to Overview and Scrutiny Committee once ascertained.