Agenda item

3875

21 May 2020

Procurement – Supplier Relief Payments

Nil

Urgent payment was required to companies in order to relieve the financial pressures they were under.

3877

23 May 2020

Contract Extensions to Mitigate the Impact of the Coronavirus Outbreak

£24,840,628

The contract extensions were emergency measures to sustain the delivery of essential works, services and supplies during the current Coronavirus outbreak, when it would not be possible to renew contract through a full procurement process as it was not feasible to undertake planned procurement activity.

3879

26 May 2020

Purchase of Personal Protective Equipment during the Coronavirus Outbreak

£6,500,000

To enable purchases to be made as soon as possible as supplies are identified, subject to relevant minimum checks on suppliers.

3883

29 May 2020

Nottingham Small Business Grant

£3,500,000

The scheme was required by Government to issue grants to businesses in June.

3892

5 June 2020

Opening High Street Fund

£294,000

The funding was to support opening the city centre and neighbourhoods, as retail reopened from 15 June.  The funding was to help citizens and businesses with clear information and messages.  Funding was released by Government on 24 May to be spent from 1 June.  Contracts and services needed to be procured to have advertising, materials and programmes in place ready for the gradual re-opening of the City post Covid-19.

3900

6 June 2020

Financial Support for the Tram

£3,700,000

The tram service had been running with substantially reduced passenger levels for several weeks and the transfer of the Department for Transport funding to Tramlink was urgently required for them to maintain cash-flow within their business.

3909

10 June 2020

Allocation of Adult Social Care Infection Control Grant Funding

£2,727,217

The Department for Health and Social Care’s guidance required that, in order to ensure that the relevant infection control measures were put in place as speedily as possible, local authorities accepted the grant and made the relevant payments to providers as soon as they could, on receipt of their allocations.

3911

13 June 2020

Property Trading Account Rental Deferral

Exempt

The support measures needed to be implemented urgently to allow officers to negotiate flexible rental payment terms with tenants, to provide financial support to tenants therefore minimising the risk of tenant failure, and securing income to the Council.

3918

25 June 2020

Financing Arrangements

Exempt

Delay would have jeopardised the ongoing viability of a wholly owned company.

3879

26 May 2020

Purchase of Personal Protective Equipment during the Coronavirus Outbreak

£6,500,000

As a result of the current Covid-19 outbreak, supplies of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) were urgently needed for the delivery of social care services for adults and children, including both internal Council in-house services and possibly externally commissioned providers and Blue Light services across the LRF footprint.  Purchasing of PPE needed to be made instantly when stocks were found to be available due to the high demand nationally and internationally.  Therefore a decision was required urgently to enable purchases to be made as soon as supplies were identified, subject to relevant minimum checks on suppliers.

3883

29 May 2020

Nottingham Small Business Grant

£3,350,000

The scheme was required by the Government to issue grants to businesses in June.

3900

6 June 2020

Financial Support for the Tram

£3,700,000

The tram service had been running with substantially reduced passenger levels for several weeks and the transfer of the Department for Transport funding to Tramlink was urgently required for them to maintain cash-flow within their business.

3911

13 June 2020

Property Trading Account Rental Deferral

Exempt

The Property Department has received numerous requests from commercial property tenants seeking financial assistance with rental payments as a result of Covid-19.  Despite Government support to businesses during the lockdown period, tenants have still found themselves in exceptional financial difficulty and have turned to the Council as landlord for assistance.  The support measures needed to be implemented urgently to allow officers to negotiate flexible rental payment terms with tenants, to provide financial support to tenants therefore minimising the risk of tenant failure, and securing income to the Council.

Minute ref: 12

16 June 2020

District Heating Scheme Agreement

Exempt

Delay beyond the end of June may have caused the project to have been delayed until 2021 and the project could therefore have no longer been viable.

3918

25 June 2020

Financing Arrangements

Exempt

Delay would have jeopardised the ongoing viability of a wholly owned company.