Cultural Services

Concepts

• cultural services
• warrington
• education services
• culture warrington
• cultural and heritage services
• culture
• cultural
• library, archives, museums
• outreach activities
• warrington borough council

Location

Warrington

Description

Culture Warrington (Company number 07974406) are contracted by Warrington Borough Council to manage a number of facilities including Parr Hall, Pyramid Arts Centre and Warrington Museum and Art Gallery, as well as cultural and heritage services including education services to primary schools and outreach activities.

Award Detail

CPV Codes

• 92500000 - Library, archives, museums and other cultural services

Indicators

Legal Justification

Culture Warrington are contracted by Warrington Borough Council ("the Council") to manage a number of facilities including Parr Hall, Pyramid Arts Centre and Warrington Museum and Art Gallery, as well as delivering cultural and heritage services including education services to primary schools and outreach activities. Culture Warrington were established at the same time as LiveWire (Warrington) CIC ("LiveWire"), in May 2012, as a separate charity to deliver these services. Whilst Culture Warrington are a separate entity to LiveWire, they have a number of shared management and central services staff in order to maximise efficiency. The Council have recently in-housed leisure, life-styles and wellbeing services which were provided by LiveWire and this has caused a requirement to separate some of the shared services. Up until the transfer of services in-house, Culture Warrington purchased these services from LiveWire for an annual fee. As a result of LiveWire no longer delivering these services to Culture Warrington, they have undertaken a review and have confirmed that in order to resource the posts required they will require an uplift of their annual fee by £161,000 per year. Whilst the original Culture Warrington contract was entered into under the Public Contract Regulations 2006 as a “Part B” contract, any significant modification to the Culture Warrington contract needs to be considered in the context of Public Contract Regulations 2015, specifically regulation 72. This Voluntary Ex-Ante Transparency Notice is therefore submitted on the basis of the modification of the Culture Warrington contract being a lawful modification under Regulation 72(1)(f) on the grounds that the modification is no more than 10% of the initial contract cost and is below the relevant threshold. The Culture Warrington contract's annual fee was £1,339,009. On the basis of the contract being for 15 years (that is the length of the contract that the Council and Culture Warrington are now committed to as a minimum), 10% of the initial contract value is therefore £2,008,513.50 (£1,339,009 x 15 years = £20,085,135 @ 10%). As a Light Touch contract, the total permitted value of any uplift under Regulation 72 (1)(f) is therefore up to the Light Touch threshold of £663,540. Pursuant to Regulation 72(6), which confirms that the value of a modification is the net cumulative value of all modifications to the contract over its duration. The fees paid, or to be paid over the 15 year contract duration, including the proposed fee uplift are below:- 2012/13 - £1,339,009 2013/14 £1,352,391 2014/15 £1,352,391 2015/16 £1,352,391 2016/17 £1,302,391 2017/18 £1,302,391 2018/19 £1,302,391 2019/20 £1,172,391 2020/21 £1,172,391 2021/22 £1,172,391 2022/23 £1,172,391 2023/24 £1,518,590 2024/25 £1,550,391 2025/26 £1,550,391 2026/27 £1,550,391 1 April 2027 - 1 – 14 May 2027 £193,799 The total amount to be paid over 15 years is therefore £20,356,418. This amounts to a total increase in the contract cost of £103,970 and as such is within the level permitted by Regulation 72(1)(f) and is therefore deemed to be a lawful modification.