Issue - meetings

To consider the award of a contract to conduct a strategic review and soft market testing of the Crewe Lyceum Theatre and Knutsford Cinema.

The Cabinet Member for Health and Wellbeing considered the award of a contract to conduct a strategic review and soft market testing of the Crewe Lyceum Theatre and Knutsford Cinema.

In order to take the project forward, and owing to a lack of internal capacity, it was necessary to engage consultants to evaluate all suitable management options. The consultants would be asked to examine each of the facilities in turn and to soft market test a variety of options in order to measure levels of interest.

The suitable management options would include:

?         A New Leisure Trust or Limited Company

?         Transferral to an existing Leisure Trust or Limited Company

?         A Management Buy-Out

?         Community Interest Company

?         Transferral to the Private sector

?         Retaining the Service In House

The consultants would be closely monitored by the Project Team, and in particular by the Service Development Manager.

In accordance with Finance and Contract Procedure Rules, four companies had been invited to quote and three quotations had been received, the lowest being that of PMP Genesis in the sum of £10,506.

The cost of the work could be met from an existing capital budget.

RESOLVED

That the Cabinet Member for Health and Wellbeing approves that

(1)   the contract to conduct a strategic review and soft market testing of the Crewe Lyceum Theatre and Knutsford Cinema be awarded to PMP Genesis for the sum of £10,506; and

(2)   a total sum of up to £15,000 be allocated to this work, the difference between this amount and the quotation figure acting as a contingency sum.