Issue - decisions

The Cabinet considered the STAR Procurement Collaboration and Executive Joint Committee detailing the strategic proposal to expand the current STAR Shared Procurement service (“STAR”) from four partner councils to six partner councils and the rationale for STAR’s growth strategy, proposed commercial arrangements, governance arrangements and implementation strategies and agreed to:-

·         Approve the disestablishment of the current STAR Joint Committee.

·         Approve the expansion of the current shared procurement service to include the Fifth Partner and Sixth Partner which will continue to be hosted by Trafford Borough Council in accordance with the provisions detailed in the main body of the report.

·         Approve the establishment of a new STAR Joint Committee for Stockport, Trafford, Rochdale, Tameside, the Fifth Partner and Sixth Partner that will support the delivery of the Shared Service and provide delegated authority to the Procurement Service to operate across the Stockport, Trafford, Rochdale, Tameside, Fifth Partner and Sixth Partner areas.

·         Approve the governance arrangements and Terms of Reference of the new STAR Joint Committee as set out in the report.

·         Delegate authority to the Assistant Director – Legal & Democratic Governance in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Finance and Resources to agree the final terms and conditions of and to enter into an Inter Authority Agreement (“IAA”) in respect of the STAR Procurement shared service in similar terms to the existing IAA.

·         To note the proposed approach to those circumstances whereby staff would transfer to the new procurement service, and therefore to Trafford Council under TUPE, as outlined in the report.