Issue - meetings

In accordance with Contract Standing Order 88, this report seeks Cabinet authority to award a 2 + 1 year Direct Payment Services Contract to allow the Council to offer a Support and Advice (general, employment and ongoing), Managed Account and Personal Assistant Service to those Users in receipt of Direct Payments and/or Personal Health Budgets. The report provides further details on the Service, the procurement process and, following the completion of the evaluation of the tenders, recommends to whom the contract should be awarded

Cabinet awarded a contract to The Penderels Trust Limited for the provision of Direct Payments Services for an initial period of two (2) years with an option to extend the contract for a further one (1) year.

Councillor Hirani, Lead Member for Adults, Health and Wellbeing, introduced the report stating that, in accordance with Contract Standing Order 88, the report seeks Cabinet authority to award a 2 + 1 year Direct Payment Services Contract to allow the Council to offer a Support and Advice (general, employment and ongoing), Managed Account and Personal Assistant Service to those users in receipt of Direct Payments and/or Personal Health Budgets.

The Cabinet also had before them an appendix to the report which was not for publication as it contained the following category of exempt information as specified in Schedule 12 of the Local Government (Access to Information Act) 1972: 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 a contract to The Penderels Trust Limited for the provision of Direct Payments Services for an initial period of two (2) years with an option to extend the contract for a further one (1) year.