Issue - meetings

This report requests authority to award a Floating and Accommodation Housing Related Support Services (FAHRS) contract as required by Contract Standing Order No 88. It also summarises the process undertaken in tendering this contract and, following the completion of the evaluation of the tenders, recommends to whom the contract should be awarded.

that the contract for Floating and Accommodation Housing Related Support Services for Physical Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Mental Health and Sensory Impairment be awarded to Look Ahead Care and Support Limited.

The report from the Strategic Director, Adults requested authority to award a Floating and Accommodation Housing Related Support Services contract as required by Contract Standing Order No 88. It also summarised the process undertaken in tendering the contract and, following the completion of the evaluation of the tenders, recommended to whom the contract should be awarded.

Councillor Hirani (Lead Member, Adults, Health and Well-Being) drew attention to the potential implications for existing full time staff who would be protected under TUPE (Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)) Regulations.

The Cabinet also had before them an appendix to the report which was not for publication as it contained the following category of exempt information as specified in Schedule 12 of the Local Government (Access to Information Act) 1972: 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 the contract for Floating and Accommodation Housing Related Support Services for Physical Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Mental Health and Sensory Impairment be awarded to Look Ahead Care and Support Limited.