Issue - meetings

This item includes appendices that contain exempt information. Discussion of the appendices will require passing the proposed resolution at the end of the agenda to exclude members of the public and press.

That Cabinet:

1.    Notes that Appendix 1, 2, 3 and 4 of this report are not for publication on the basis that they contain information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that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.    Approves a procurement strategy for the provision of genitourinary medicine (GUM) sexual health services using Direct Award Process C under the Provider Selection Regime pursuant to The Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.

3.    Approves a collaborative approach (in respect of evaluation) to the procurement with Westminster City Council and The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

4.    Delegates to the Executive Director of People the decision to award the contract at the conclusion of the procurement.

Councillor Alex Sanderson (Deputy Leader) introduced the report that sought approval for the Council's ongoing participation in the pan-London sexual health programme’s clinic-based genito-urinary medicine (GUM) service.

Councillor Florian Chevoppe-Verdier (Cabinet Member for Public Realm) highlighted the work of 10 Hammersmith Broadway distributing vaccines in the community. The clinic accounted for the largest proportion of activity for residents in the borough (over 54% of the total in 2023).

RESOLVED

That Cabinet:

1.    Notes that Appendix 1, 2, 3 and 4 of this report are not for publication on the basis that they contain information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that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.    Approves a procurement strategy for the provision of genitourinary medicine (GUM) sexual health services using Direct Award Process C under the Provider Selection Regime pursuant to The Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.

3.    Approves a collaborative approach (in respect of evaluation) to the procurement with Westminster City Council and The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

4.    Delegates to the Executive Director of People the decision to award the contract at the conclusion of the procurement.