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Documents shared by Herefordshire Council appear to indicate that more than £600,000 is set to be spent on consultants for the architectural, transport and design aspects of the Hereford City Masterplan Project.
Herefordshire Council says the decision has been taken for the following reasons:
“A Hereford City Masterplan framework will help Hereford to become a more active travel city in the short, medium and long term.”
The first decision documented explains the following:
“To award a professional services contract for consultants to provide the Architecture and Town Planning aspect of the City Masterplan Project. The quoted cost for delivery of the works is £157,635.00. An additional £30,000 contingency is also needed to allow for any modifications/changes to the brief and accommodate identified risks (to be managed through the project risk register). The total amount required to implement this decision is therefore £187,635.00.”
The second decision documented in Herefordshire Council papers explains:
“To award a professional services contract for consultants to provide the Architecture and Town Planning aspect of the City Masterplan Project. The quoted cost for delivery of the works is £86,468.74. An additional £17,000 contingency is also needed to allow for any modifications/changes to the brief and accommodate identified risks (to be managed through the project risk register). The total amount required to implement this decision is therefore £104,400.00.”
The final decision related to this explains:
“To award a professional services contract for consultants to provide the Transport Planning and Design aspect of the City Masterplan Project. The quoted cost for delivery of the works is £337,901.00. As consultancy budgets are limited, we are not asking for any contingency within this contract, as project contingency is covered elsewhere within the budget.”
Further details on these decisions can be found by visiting the following links:
HC Global Template (herefordshire.gov.uk)
