Issue details

Cabinet on 15 December 2016 gave their approval for the City and County of Swansea to extensively overhaul its entire EOTAS service to provide a sector leading practice. The objective is to reconfigure the service to build on existing good practice, transforming the provision to support vulnerable children and their families and to meet the requirement to provide suitable full time education, in a timely manner, to those children and young people who need to be educated other than at school. This must also be seen in the context of emerging national policy, including the recent report from Estyn (June 2016) as well as the continuing national and local budget pressures.

Recommendations presented in December 2016 included the proposed restructure of Swansea PRU into three strands (ABC), educated in a fit-for-purpose learning environment.

Cabinet in July 2017, approved the progression of the design of a new PRU on land at Cockett Road and the submission of a detailed planning application.

Planning Consent for the demolition of 3 buildings on the site and the construction of a 3500m2 purpose built facility was approved in March 2018.

A contract award was approved by Cabinet on 18 October 2018 in accordance with CPR 13.10.

On the 15 March 2019 the appointed contractor Dawnus Construction Ltd went into administration and were no longer able to fulfil contract obligations.

At the 15 March 2019, the development of the site had commenced and the demolition phase complete, however, though pre-construction groundworks were ongoing the main construction phase had not started and was subject to the contractor completing elements of technical design.

This report is seeking approval of a new contract award and contractor selection/ appointment.