Agenda and draft minutes

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Items
No. Item

12.

Apologies

To receive apologies from members.

Minutes:

Apologies were received from Councillors Holloway (Councillor Moore acting as subsitute) and Darcy.

13.

Declarations of Interest

To receive declarations of Interest from any members.

Minutes:

There were no declarations of interest.

14.

Chair's Urgent Business

To receive any items of Chair’s Urgent Business.

Minutes:

There were no items of Chair’s urgent business.

15.

Delt Services Re-Procurement pdf icon PDF 172 KB

To discuss Delt services re-procurement.

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The report was introduced by Peter Honeywell (Transformation Architecture Manager, Digital and Customer Experience) with further contributions from Councillor Dann (Cabinet Member for Customer Services, Sport, Leisure & HR, and OD).

 

Contributions were received from Councillors Ricketts, Blight, Allison, Reilly, Moore and Murphy.

 

Topics of discussion included:

 

a)    The shareholder structure and associated risks of this structure held by DELT services;

 

b)    The risks associated with various negotiation schemes taking place at the current time;

 

c)    Responses to changes in technology including AI;

 

d)    The utilisation of the range of services offered by DELT including services which may be employed;

 

e)    The risk associated with termination of the contract;

 

f)     SLA satisfaction and reasons for dissatisfaction.

 

The Committed agreed to:

 

1.    Recommend to Cabinet that issues of this nature should in future be available for discussion at scrutiny at an earlier point in the process;

 

2.     Recommend to Cabinet that further reviews of the Delt contract should be undertaken in twelve months and subsequently at year 2, 4, 6 and 8 in advance of contractual break clauses;

 

3.    Recommended to the Monitoring Officer that a mechanism which allows the scrutiny function to scrutinise the companies owned by the council should be included as part of the development of a Governance Framework pertaining to the Family of Companies.