Decision details

Yarrow Housing Contract Award

Decision Maker: Cabinet

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: Yes

Is subject to call in?: No

Purpose:

Request for approval to waive Council Standing Orders to allow the Council to directly award a one year contract to Yarrow Housing from 1st October 2015 to enable the Council to complete a service review and procurement. The award will allow the current arrangement for the provision of seven supported accommodation services and two registered care homes for people with learning disabilities to be extended for one year with the option to extend for up to an additional three months to facilitate the completion of the review and procurement.

Decision:

1.1       To waive the Contract Standing Orders that require a minimum of five tenders to be sought for contracts of £172,514 or greater total estimated value to allow the Council to directly award a contract to Yarrow from 1st October 2015 to 30th September 2016.

 

1.2.      To directly award a contract for 12 months with a maximum annual contract value of up to £2,664,019 to Yarrow, the incumbent provider, under the existing terms and conditions of the existing contract, with an option to extend, if approved, for a period of up to 3 months at a maximum contract value of £666,005. 

 

1.3       That the authority to realise any additional contract efficiency savings during the term of the contract, as noted in section 1.5 of the report, be delegated to the Cabinet Member for Health and Adult Social Care, in consultation with the Executive Director of Adult Social Care.

1.4       To delegate the authority to the Cabinet Member to vary the interim contract should the 3 month additional period be required.

 

Report author: Linda Burke

Publication date: 08/09/2015

Date of decision: 07/09/2015

Decided at meeting: 07/09/2015 - Cabinet

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