Issue - meetings

In accordance with Contract Standing Order 88, this report seeks Cabinet authority to award a 2+1+1year social care and support services contract for a new Extra Care Housing (ECH) scheme at Willow House.  The support services will be provided to older people (55+) who have Mental Health, Learning Disabilities, Physical Disabilities and/or Sensory Impairment(s). To support the recommendation the report also provides further details on the scheme and details the process undertaken to select the preferred provider.

that a contract be awarded to London Care Plc for the sum of £1.8m, for the provision of a Extra Housing Scheme social care and support services at Willow House; for an initial period of two (2) years with an option to extend up to a further two (2) years on an annual basis.

In accordance with Contract Standing Order 88, Members considered a report seeking authority to award a social care and support services contract for a term of two years with the option to extend, for a new Extra Care Housing (ECH) scheme at Willow House. The scheme would provide 38 self-contained one-bedroom flats and 2 two-bedroom flats for people aged 55 and over who had mental health, learning disabilities, physical disabilities and/or sensory impairment(s). Introducing the report, Councillor Hirani (Lead Member Adults, Health and Wellbeing) advised that the value of the contract would be £1.8m over a period of 4 years and this would be met from the Extra Care Sheltered Housing budget in the Commissioning Unit contained within the Adult Social Care budget. In concluding his introduction, Councillor Hirani summarised the benefits of this model of service provision and explained that the preferred bidder, London Care Plc, was selected through a mini competition using the West London Alliance (WLA) Homecare Framework and the contract was compliant with the London Living Wage.

In response to a query, Councillor Hirani confirmed that the savings represented by the contract had been included within the budget proposals and emphasised that the contract evidenced that the council could deliver different and improved models of care whilst reducing costs.

The Cabinet also had before them an appendix to the report which was not for publication as it contained the following category of exempt information as specified in Schedule 12 of the Local Government (Access to Information Act) 1972:

Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information)

RESOLVED:

that a contract be awarded to London Care Plc for the sum of £1.8m, for the provision of a Extra Housing Scheme social care and support services at Willow House; for an initial period of two (2) years with an option to extend up to a further two (2) years on an annual basis.