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The next stage of the highways PFI scheme is reached today as the council invite the three preferred bidders to fine-tune their proposals
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After taking extensive evidence, the Parliament Treasury Select Committee questions if PFI is a good idea to finance project
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Stop The Cuts Alliance ask why the council won't reconsider highway PFI scheme when the Government are reassessing
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After George Osborne said Government was going to 'reassess' PFI, the council say their plans will go ahead 'unaffected'
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The council plan to put aside £1,000,000 in 2012/13 for the project to decide who will get the new waste contract in 2015.
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Labour and Independent budget proposals lost out to Conservatives who voted against alternatives.
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Not-for-profit , Waste Improvement Network, offers councils a framework to procure their Waste Disposal strategies meaning the Isle of Wight council wouldn't need to reinvent the wheel (or spend vast amounts of our money) says Independent Cllr, Vanessa Churchman
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Cabinet meeting in May will endorse 'Preferred Bidder Appointment & Final Business Case' for the Highways PFI
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Cabinet member to take Delegated Decision over PFI Waste Contract in relation to the appointment of technical, legal and financial advisors
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Council say they have been talking to Waste Improvement Network about Waste Contract procurement, but the scope of their project is too wide for the framework. We're waiting to hear back on what is so special about the Wight scheme, as 141 other councils had used it successfully.
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The chair of the Scrutiny Committee will need to decide whether she will dis-allow a call-in on the preferred bidder Delegated Decision, as requested by the head of the project Jay Jayasundara.
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Decision to disapply the call-in has been announced following our earlier report.
