Issue - meetings

To consider an update on the number of cases where, and reasons why, procurement activity has required the use of waivers and/or non-adherences (WARNs).

The committee received a report from the Director of Finance and Customer Services (S151 Officer) that provided details of the number of cases where, and reasons why, procurement activity had required the use of waivers and / or non-adherences (WARNs).

Details of 6 WARNs were presented to the committee (4 waivers and 2 non-adherences).

Following advice of the Monitoring Officer, WARN Ref 1370 was presented in Part 1 as it was not deemed to include any financial or commercially sensitive information.

RESOLVED:

That the Audit and Governance Committee

(1)  Noted the reasons for the 4 waivers approved between 1 November 2022 and 31 January 2023 (22 in total in 2022/23):

(2)  Noted the reasons for non-adherences between 1 November 2022 and 31 January 2023 (3 in total in 2022/23)

(3)  Noted that the Finance Sub Committee, on 8 March 2022, reviewed the Waivers for this period as part of their responsibility for the pipeline of procurement activity.