Purpose

This report seeks approval to waive the county council's procurement rules to allow the extension of the Microsoft Enterprise Agreement for a further period of one year. This is in order to meet the requirements of Microsoft in the light of the need for the council to move to the more up to date version of the Microsoft product suite.

This is deemed to be a Key Decision and the provisions of Standing Order C21 have been complied with. Compliance with Standing Orders C19 and C20 was not possible for the reasons set out in the report.

Decision

The Cabinet approved the recommendation(s) as set out in the report.

This decision should be implemented immediately for the purposes of Standing Order C29 as any delay could adversely affect the execution of the County Council's responsibilities.  The reason for this is set out in the report.