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Salford City Council – Record of
Decision
 
I Councillor Youd, Lead Member
for Finance and Support Services and chairman of the Procurement
Board, accept the recommendation of the Procurement Board and in
exercise of the powers contained within the Council Constitution do
hereby approve:
 
·    
to Award the Contract forHighways Drainage Works, as
detailed in the table below:

Detail
required

Answers

Title/Description of Contracted
Service/Supply/Project

Technical and Highways Works Framework
: Lot 3 Drainage

Procurement Reference numbers (DN
and CR number supplied by Procurement)

 

Name of Successful
Contractor

General Utilities Northwest
Ltd

Supplier Registration
Number
(to be supplied by
Procurement

6468779

Proclass Classification
No.
(to be completed by
procurement)

 

Type of
organisation
(to be supplied by
Procurement)

Private Limited
Company

Status of
Organisation
(to be supplied by
Procurement)

SME

Contract Value
(£)

£    700,000     
per annum

Total contract value £
(including extensions)

£       700,000  
total project value

Contract
Duration

12 months

Contract Start
Date

01/09/2025

Contract End
Date

31/08/2026

Optional Extension Period
1

N/A

Optional Extension Period
2

N/A

Who will approve each Extension
Period?

Procurement Board (extension >
£150k)

Contact Officer (Name &
number)

Stuart Culshaw

 

 

 

Lead Service
Group

Place

How the contract was
procured?
(to be supplied by
procurement)

Other

Framework Details (where
applicable)
(procurement body, framework
reference & title, start/ end date

Open Tender on the
Chest:
 Technical
and Highways Works Framework : Lot 3

Funding
Source

Combination of Above (please detail
below)

Ethical Contractor (EC):
Mayor’s Employment Charter

Yes
 

EC: Committed to sign The
Mayor’s Employment Charter

Yes
 
 

EC: Committed to the principles
outlined in the Mayor’s Employment
charter

Yes
 

EC: Accredited Living Wage
Employer

Yes
 

EC: Committed to becoming
Accredited Living wage Employer

Yes
 

 
The Reasons
for the decision and report is to award a compliant contract that
allows drainage works to be commissioned and undertaken by a
suitably appointed contractor.
 
Options considered and
rejected were
– this is the final year of a 4 year framework
hence CSO’s stipulate that where a
suitable framework exists, this must be used unless there is an
auditable reason not to do so. Hence
this was the preferred procurement route. Work
cannot be undertaken in-house as there are insufficient
resources.
 
Assessment of
Risk
– by not having a contract in place roads and
areas of the City would be subject to ongoing and emerging flooding
problems as we would be unable to undertake drainage repairs. This
would further impact on roads potentially being closed and flooding
to land and property.
 
The source of
funding is a mixture of approved capital and revenue funding
depending on the nature of drainage work being
undertaken.
 
Legal Advice
obtained
– The proposed award of
the contract follows a call off exercise in accordance with the
Council’s Technical and Highways Minor
Civils Works Framework (Drainage Lot)
referred to in the body of the report and legal supports the award.
 
Financial Advice
obtained
– Finance identifies the funding that is in
place to deliver the likely projects to be undertaken. There
remains sufficient headroom in the contract for other drainage
projects to be commissioned by the council should it be
needed.
 
Procurement Advice
obtained -  This contract was procured
as a further competition under the Technical and Highways Works
Framework – Lot 3. This is a compliant route to market which
complies with SCC standing orders and PCR’s 2015.  Out of the 6 contractors on this Lot there were 3
bids for this competition and General Utilities North West was the
winning bidder in Quality, Price and Social Value.
 
HR Advice obtained –
N/A.
 
Climate Change Implications
obtained – N/A.
 
The following documents have
been used to assist the decision process:
 
The relevant documents contain
exempt or confidential information and are not available for public
inspection:- tender returns from contractors invited to tender
contain commercially sensitive and confidential financial
submissions.

Contact Officer: Sharon Walls
Telephone number: 07598063732
 
The appropriate Scrutiny
Committee to call-in the decision is the Growth and Prosperity
Scrutiny Panel
 
 

Signed:    Cllr J
Youd         Dated:    13 October
2025.
         
    Lead Member
 

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ONLY:
 
*         This
decision was published on 14
October 2025
*         This
decision will come in force at 4.00 p.m. on 21 October 2025 unless it is called-in in accordance
with the Decision Making Process Rules.