Agenda item

Report of the Chamberlain

Members considered a report of the Chamberlain providing an update on the work of City Procurement, key performance and areas of progress for Q1 of 2020/21.

Officers advised that despite the COVID-19 challenges, steady progress was being maintained with major projects and some new pan-London projects were imminent.

In response to questions and observations from Members on the long list of high value, high risk procurement projects in flight, Officers stated that resource capacity was a growing risk again, mainly due to the additional unplanned and urgent work to support Covid and covid recovery, but that payments processing was close to the target and waivers had continued its trend in declining.  Contractor performance during the COVID-19 pandemic was closely monitored by lead Departments and thus far, there had been no significant issues with key contractors/suppliers failing.

Members requested data to compare CoL performance with peers in future iterations of this report and commended Officers for their efforts in challenging circumstances.

RESOLVED – That the report be noted.