The Council has undertaken a request for quotation exercise seeking consultancy support to write a waste a recycling collection and street sweeping service specification.
WRM Sustainability Ltd are the successful bidder and as such this decision is to award the contract to them.
At total of £0.200m has been set aside as part of a budget adjustment for 2024/25 as approved by Cabinet at its meeting on 19th April 2024 (Minute number 116 refers). The spending of this budget is delegated to the Corporate Director for Operations

To appoint WRM Sustainability Ltd to undertake specification writing services for the Council in respect of the waste and recycling collection and street cleaning services.

The alternative option is not to procure specialist consultancy support. Such a decision would leave the council vulnerable due to limited experience in this area of work.