Decision details

1.     That the Board approve the Business Justification Case for the LPWAN project and authorise the Portfolio Director, in consultation with the Chair, Vice-Chair, Section 151 Officer and the Monitoring Officer to procure and establish the required frameworks for the delivery of the project, subject to the Portfolio Management Office addressing the outstanding issues set out in section 7.1 of the report.

2.     That the Board note the process for accessing funding through the frameworks will involve the submission of a delivery plan for each local authority area and delegate authority to the Portfolio Director in consultation with the Lead Member for the Digital Programme and the Digital Programme Board to approve the delivery plans and delegate solely to the Portfolio Director the subsequent allocation of funding through the frameworks.

3.     That the Board note that the LPWAN Business Justification Case is a sub-set of the larger Connected Campus project from which funding will be allocated and agree to the principle that any underspend within the LPWAN project budget is ringfenced to the Connected Campus project in the first instance.