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Title/Subject Consultant Directorate Description Spend in 17/18 (Ex VAT) Appendix 9(a) Title/Subject Consultant Directorate Description Spend in 17/18 (ex VAT) Business or Technical? On Contracts Register? Museum Museum - Professional Fees Amion Consulting Limited Communications & Fees relating to business plan and bid support for Heritage Lottery Funding £8,200.00 Business Yes Regeneration and Growth Deal, and additional work relating to the project budget Museum - Professional Fees Annie Lord Communications & Consultancy fees in relation to the museum for December 2017 - 2 days @ £700.00 Business No Regeneration £350 per day Museum - Professional Fees Appleyard & Trew LLP Communications & Fees in relation to professional quantity surveying services £6,000.00 Business No Regeneration Museum - Professional Fees Buttress Architects Communications & Professional fees relating to the provision of architectural services, RIBA £52,144.58 Business No Regeneration stage 1, completion of RIBA Stage 3, a Plaster Survey, design team fees and additional printing costs Museum - Professional Fees Casson Mann Communications & Additional costs for an access consultant - Stage 3 RERUN/Developed £800.00 Business No Regeneration design Museum - Public Engagement & Co Curiosity Creative CIC Communications & 3 day refresher course of digital storytelling £1,435.00 Business No Regeneration Museum - Professional Fees DCA Consultancy Ltd Communications & Final payment to DCA for the provision of governance and management £6,593.75 Business Yes Regeneration consultancy in relation to the museum project Museum - Other Costs Dr Vanessa Toulmin Communications & Provision of statement of significance for WG pavilion and horseshoe £2,000.00 Business No Regeneration Museum - Professional Fees DWF LLP Communications & Professional fees in relation to the Blackpool Museum Heritage Lottery £3,830.00 Business No Regeneration Fund project Museum - Organisational Development Impact Fundraising Communications & Summary of charges - fundraising support Blackpool Museum Project £5,747.89 Business No Regeneration Museum - Professional Fees Impact Fundraising Communications & Summary of charges - fundraising support Blackpool Museum Project £9,652.50 Business No Regeneration INSTALLMENT 2 Museum Collections & Content Lancashire County Council Communications & Fees in relation to the provision of an object conservation survey £553.00 Business No Regeneration Museum - Other Costs Mark Price Communications & Provision of a Statement of Significance for the Pavilion Theatre within £1,250.00 Business No Regeneration Blackpool Winter Gardens Museum - Professional Fees PRT Social Enterprise Communications & Provision of Project Management Services in relation to the delivery of the £15,324.00 Business No Regeneration Museum Project Total £114,230.72 Tramway Blackpool to Fleetwood Tramway Upgrade Bircham Dyson Bell LLC Communications & For the continued provision of legal services of parliamentary agent as £9,137.36 Technical Yes Regeneration outlined in Blackpool Council's letter of appointment and in Bircham Dyson Bell's TWAO programme and fee proposal Blackpool to Fleetwood Tramway Upgrade Dr Michael Clarke Communications & Professional fees in relation to the investigation of corrosion of Starr Gate £24,873.02 Technical No Regeneration Tram Depot Blackpool to Fleetwood Tramway Upgrade Equis Associates Ltd Communications & Professional fees relating to the provision of consultancy services for the £162,000.00 Technical Yes Regeneration extension of the tramway from North Pier to North Station Blackpool to Fleetwood Tramway Upgrade KKC Engineering Consultants Communications & Provision of professional services over a 40 week period in relation to the £96,350.00 Technical Yes Regeneration tramway extension Blackpool to Fleetwood Tramway Upgrade Kompetenz Fur Schienengebundene Communications & Provision of various inspections including body shell painting and welding, £12,092.58 Technical No Verkehre GMBH Regeneration cab welding and tramcars Blackpool to Fleetwood Tramway Upgrade Morson Human Resources Communications & Professional surveys payable to the Clerk of Works (5 days at £330 per day) £1,650.00 Technical No Regeneration Blackpool to Fleetwood Tramway Upgrade Mott Macdonald Communications & Professional fees in relation to the Blackpool North Station Extension £44,354.27 Technical Yes Regeneration project (technical and economic support) Appendix 9(a) Blackpool to Fleetwood Tramway Upgrade Pell Frischmann Communications & Professional services delivered by Pell Frischmann in relation to the design £16,541.05 Technical No Regeneration of tram/highway signalling Blackpool to Fleetwood Tramway Upgrade Soil Engineering Geoservices Communications & To cover the cost of further works undertaken in accordance with £477.45 Technical No Regeneration Certificate 2 in relation to the tramway extension Blackpool to Fleetwood Tramway Upgrade Squire Patton Boggs Communications & Professional fees in relation to the Blackpool Tramway dispute £298,171.81 Technical No Regeneration Blackpool to Fleetwood Tramway Upgrade Steer Davies Gleave Communications & Blackpool North Extension TWAO Support - fees in relation to the provision £59,239.90 Technical No Regeneration of a professional team Blackpool to Fleetwood Tramway Upgrade Wilde Recruitment Communications & Provision of PA services £341.84 Technical No Regeneration Blackpool to Fleetwood Tramway Upgrade William J Marshall Communications & Fees in relation to the provision of technical staff to provide consultancy £13,801.50 Technical No Regeneration services for the tramway extension project Total £739,030.78 Other commissions above £25k Sand Dunes Environmental Work The Lancashire Wildlife Trust Community & Fees in relation to the sand dune management works - LWT costs £80,750.24 Technical No Enviornmental Enterprise Zone - Airport Mott Macdonald Communications & Fees in relation to the development of the Blackpool Airport EZ Masterplan £52,686.00 Business Yes Regeneration Corporate Finance Pricewaterhousecoopers Resources Fees for professional services in relation to Phase 2 of the Cultural £35,000.00 Business Yes Exemption project Private Sector Housing - Tyldesley/Rigby Royal Haskoning Communications & Fees in relation to site supervision and design uplift of Rigby Road £27,000.00 Technical No Road Redevelopment Regeneration Blackpool Head of Adult Social Care DWF LLP Adults Professional fees in relation to advice provided in relation to the client £25,254.05 Business No Total £220,690.29 Other commissions below £25,000 Various commissions BELOW £25,000 Various Various Various £538,247.50 Various Various Total £538,247.50 Grand Total £1,612,199.29.
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