Issue - meetings

This report has one appendix which contains information exempt within the meaning of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972 and is not for publication. The appendix has therefore been circulated with restrict access.

Any discussions on the contents of an exempt appendix will require Cabinet to pass the proposed resolution identified at the end of the agenda to exclude members of the public and the press the proceedings for that discussion.

1.    To note that Appendix 1 is not for publication on the basis that it contains information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information) as set out in paragraph 3 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended).

2.    To approve the re-procurement of the Housing Caretaking service, via a competitive procedure with negotiation, to start on 12 May 2025, for a period of 5 years with the option of up to 2 years extension, for an anticipated total cost of up to £35,000,000.

Councillor Frances Umeh, Cabinet Member for Housing and Homelessness presented the report requesting approval to re-procurement the Housing Caretaking service. This service maintained clean, tidy, and safe surroundings for residents in council housing stock across the borough through cleaning and inspection regimes to internal communal and shared external residential areas. The re-procurement was necessary to update the existing service specification in response to new legislation such as the recent Social Housing Act as well as resident and officer expectations.

AGREED UNANIMOUSLY BY THE CABINET MEMBERS:

1.    To note that Appendix 1 is not for publication on the basis that it contains information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information) as set out in paragraph 3 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended).

2.    To approve the re-procurement of the Housing Caretaking service, via a competitive procedure with negotiation, to start on 12 May 2025, for a period of 5 years with the option of up to 2 years extension, for an anticipated total cost of up to £35,000,000.