Standing Item: Compliance with Contract Procedure Rules
Meeting: 28/07/2022 - Audit and Governance Committee (Item 30)
30 Standing Item: Compliance with Contract Procedure Rules 
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To consider an update to the Audit and Governance Committee on the number of cases where, and reasons why, procurement activity has required the use of waivers and/or non-adherences (WARNs).
Minutes:
The Director of Finance and Customer Services and Section 151 Officer presented the Waivers and Non-Adherences (WARNs) report, these had been reviewed by the Finance Sub- Committee.
Waivers had increased in relation to Covid related expenditure these were sometimes in an emergency, there was an expectation that the figure will reduce significantly in due course.
RESOLVED: That:
a) the reason for five Waivers approved between 1 May 2022 and 31 May 2022 (6 in total in 2022/23) be received and noted; and
b) the Finance Sub-Committee, on the 6 July 2022 had reviewed the Waivers for this period as part of its responsibility for the pipeline of procurement activity be received and noted.