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(iii)
that:
approve the Preliminary Sketch Plans in order
(a) Farrells may be instructed to proceed with the next stage-"Final Sketch Design Scheme"; and
(b) OED can instruct the quantity surveyor (QS) to produce costings based on the preliminary sketch plans.
Members will, in effect, be asked to agree that the overall design is satisfactory and broadly meets our requirements. After this meeting it will still be possible to make minor detail (eg partition type) changes, but members should regard this as the point at which any outstanding major concerns should be settled. Once Farrells have been given authority to proceed, any major alterations to the design will cost us money and cause delays to the programme.
4.
When the QS has produced the costings, a further meeting of the Steering Committee will be necessary to consider the design in the light of costs, and to recommend it for ministerial approval to go forward as a firm PES bid, (members will recall that there is a firm commitment in the PES capital programme based on our estimate of construction costs. will need to be replaced by a firm costing).
This
Thom
JC Morris
min.cons.gen.MORRIS
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