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WSCC Electric Vehicle Charging Concession Contract

Meeting: 03/11/2020 - Cabinet (Item 64)

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The Cabinet is requested to consider the report and its appendices and make the following resolution:

 

That having considered the recommendation from the Environment Panel (para 9.2), the Cabinet resolves to not join West Sussex County Council’s concession contract for the planning, installation and deployment, service and maintenance of electric vehicle charge points across the county of West Sussex but to monitor usage of the Council’s electric vehicle charge points and keep under review whether the Council wishes to join the contract at a future date.

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Decision:

RESOLVED

 

That having considered the recommendation from the Environment Panel (para 9.2), the Cabinet resolves to not join West Sussex County Council’s concession contract for the planning, installation and deployment, service and maintenance of electric vehicle charge points across the county of West Sussex but to monitor usage of the Council’s electric vehicle charge points and keep under review whether the Council wishes to join the contract at a future date.

Minutes:

Cllr Plant introduced the item.

 

Mr Ballard then provided an update. He explained that the Director of Environment and Public Protection at West Sussex County Council had published a notice on 2 November 2020 awarding a concession contract to Liberty Charge from 1 February 2021. The notice outlined how three tenders had been received and the decision would now be subject to the call-in procedure. Mr Ballard confirmed that the notice had not changed the officer recommendation as stated in the report.

 

Cllr Brown was then invited to speak. He explained that he wished the Cabinet to reject the officer recommendation in line with the recommendation made by the Environment Panel (of which he is a member). Mr Ballard explained that officers had fully considered the options but had come to the conclusion that without fully understanding the impacts of joining the Group it would not be appropriate to do so. Mr Frost added that the council already had a greater number of electric vehicle charging points than some of its nearest district neighbours (the council has 18, the nearest district has 6). He clarified that the council could still join the Group as a collaborative partner at any point.

 

The Cabinet were in agreement that they did not wish to agree a contract without all the terms and conditions so by supporting the officer recommendation it keeps the council’s options open about joining the Group at a later date.

 

In a vote the following resolution was agreed:

 

RESOLVED

 

That having considered the recommendation from the Environment Panel (para 9.2), the Cabinet resolves to not join West Sussex County Council’s concession contract for the planning, installation and deployment, service and maintenance of electric vehicle charge points across the county of West Sussex but to monitor usage of the Council’s electric vehicle charge points and keep under review whether the Council wishes to join the contract at a future date.

 


 

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