Issue - meetings

To consider report 39/10 of the Head of Corporate Strategy.

The Executive considered report 39/10 of the Head of Corporate Strategy.  This asked for permission for a joint website review project with South Oxfordshire District Council.  The intention was to make the councils’ websites more customer-focused.  The report also requested agreement for an exemption from the council’s contract procedure rules to allow this council to appoint the same supplier as South Oxfordshire District Council.  This could deliver a combined saving of £20,000. 

The Executive supported the proposal as it would refresh the council’s website, the costs would be contained within budget, and savings were projected.  However, the Executive stressed the importance of the Vale brand in the website design. 

RESOLVED

(a)               To agree to join a project with South Oxfordshire District Council to transform the councils’ respective websites to be more customer-focused; and

(b)               To agree to an exemption to the contract procedure rules to allow the council to appoint the same supplier as South Oxfordshire District Council and deliver a combined saving of £20,000.