Decision details

To seek approval to conduct a mini-competition process under Lot 5i of the Gloucestershire Community and Accommodation Based Support Pseudo Framework Agreement in respect of a call off contract for the supply of 16+ Accommodation Based Support.

This key decision will be considered using the Council’s general exception rules because the decision is urgent and it has not been possible to give 28 days notice on the Forward Plan. The decision will be considered by Cllr Kathy Williams, Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care Delivery.

Chair and Vice Chair of the Adult Social Care and Communities Scrutiny Committee, Cllrs Stephan Fifield and Lisa Spivey, have been notified of the need to implement the decision as an urgent decision under the council’s general exception rules.

Any representations should be sent to Helen Flitton

by 5pm on Saturday 28 January 2023

Tel: 01452 328602; Email: Helen.Flitton@gloucestershire.gov.uk

In coming to this decision I have given due and full regard to the requirements of the public sector equality duty contained in section 149 of the Equality Act 2010 (“the Act”) by reference to the law itselfand also the relevant Equality Impact Assessment, which was prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Act.

Having fully considered all the available information, I have decided to reject the alternative options and take the recommended decision to:

Delegate authority to the Director of Public Health to: 

a)    Conduct a mini-competition process under Lot 5i of the Gloucestershire Community and Accommodation Based Support (CABS) Pseudo Framework Agreement in respect of a call-off contract for the supply of at least 32 bed spaces and Accommodation Based Support Services for homeless young people aged 16 and above in Gloucester and the Forest of Dean.  The proposed call-off contract shall continue for an initial period of two years (or less if the contract commences after 1^st April 2023) and include an option to extend its term for a further period of not more than two further years.

b)    Award such call-off contract to the preferred tenderer; and

c)    Determine whether to exercise the option to extend the term of such call-off contract for a further period of not more than two years on the expiry of the initial term.

For the reasons set out in the report.