Agenda item

The Director of Finance introduced the report on contract management which set out a framework for effective scrutiny and key lines of enquiry to focus the committee’s questions and evidence gathering.

It was proposed that a task and finish group be formed to carry out further work on this in the coming months and bring back a report to the main committee.

A member of the Committee suggested that a synopsis of each contract should be completed as contracts end to assess whether lessons have been learnt. Therefore this would create a place to work from when contracts come to the Committee to be renewed or assessed.  It was agreed to establish a task and finish group with Councillors S Malik, Strutton, Gahir, Basra and Kaur to:

§  Review the major contracts list and select some to focus on;

§  Meet with relevant officers for those contracts and discuss the key lines of enquiry in the appendix; and

§  Bring a report back to a future meeting of Scrutiny for consideration.

The first meeting was expected to be held in September to review the contracts list and select some key contracts for further scrutiny.

Resolved –  That the report be noted and that a scrutiny task and finish group be established on contract management.