Issue - meetings
Approval to award a Care Provider Service contract
Meeting: 21/09/2015 - Cabinet (Item 7)
In accordance with Contract Standing Order 88, this report seeks Cabinet authority to award a social care and support services contract for a new Extra Care Housing (ECH) facility in Brent. The care services will be provided to people aged 50+ with care and support needs. The report provides further details on the facility and 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.
Additional documents:
- extra-care-restricted , View reasons restricted (7/2)
- extra-care-app-ea, item 7
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Decision:
that approval be given to the award of a contract to Metropolitan Housing Trust, for the provision of care and support services at the new ECH facility in Brent for an initial period of two (2) years with an option to extend the contract for a further two (2) successive one (1) year periods.
Minutes:
In accordance with Contract Standing Order 88, the report from the Strategic Director, Adults sought authority to award a social care and support services contract for a new Extra Care Housing (ECH) facility in Brent. The care services would be provided to people aged 50+ with care and support needs. The report provided further details on the facility and 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) advised that the unit would make a significant contribution towards achieving the objectives of NAIL (New Accommodation for Independent Living) in reducing reliance on residential care and commissioning far more cost effective, flexible accommodation. The Cabinet were assured that the contract would be London Living Wage compliant.
The Cabinet also had before them an appendix to the report which was not for publication as it contained the following category of exempt information as specified in Schedule 12 of the Local Government (Access to Information Act) 1972: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 approval be given to the award of a contract to Metropolitan Housing Trust, for the provision of care and support services at the new ECH facility in Brent for an initial period of two years with an option to extend the contract for a further two successive one year periods.