Decision details

Pre-Construction Service Agreement for Grove Park school

Decision Maker: Chief Operating Officer

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: Yes

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Purpose:

This is for pre contract services to enable a tender to be prepared for a new 2000sqm building providing PMLD pupil places for Secondary and Sixth Form pupils on the Grove Park Primary School site. The existing primary school will have minor alterations and a new nursery provision will be provided on the same site. Two mobile classrooms will be removed.

Capital funding has been allocated in the Capital Programme to accommodate the new facilities at Grove Park School. The site will therefore have a nursery, primary school and new secondary/sixth form accommodation. The pupils will be between the ages of 2 to 18 years.

Decision:

The Pre-Contract Services Agreement (PSCA) contract for feasibility studies in relation to a new Profound and Multiple Learning Disability (PLMD) building for Grove Park Secondary and Sixth Form on a Council owned site in Crowborough has been award to Willmott Dixon.

Alternative options considered:

Various possible procurement routes to market were considered and the most suitable was selected.

Publication date: 28/06/2023

Date of decision: 26/06/2023

Effective from: 05/07/2023