Sports and Leisure Management Limited Outsourced Services

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Watford Borough Council

Value

£63,000,000

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Sports and Leisure Management Ltd

Classifications

Physical well-being services
Recreational, cultural and sporting services

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Published

3 months ago

Description

Watford Borough Council intends to enter a deed of variation with Sports and Leisure Management Limited (the Contractor) as the outsourced provider of leisure management services. SLM acts as the principle in providing leisure services from the council owned premises at Woodside, Central and the paddling pool at Cassiobury Park. SLM will act as agent of the council, with SLM providing leisure services on behalf of the council in the council’s name. The Underlying Contract was originally procured under Procurement Notice Watford Sports facilities operation services 2017/S 049-089978:, published on 10th March 2017. The opportunity to change the status, follows the successful litigation taken by Chelmsford City Council in 2022 and subsequently HMRC revised its guidance in 2023 in relation to the VAT treatment of leisure services provided by local authorities.

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Watford Borough Council

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Mitchelle Kasimu

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+44 1923226400

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