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This report seeks an exemption from the procurement requirements of the Council’s Contract Standing Orders and approval to award contracts for the placement of children and young people in: Additionally Resourced Provision (ARP) provided by academies for the academic year 2017/18; and the Choice, Advice and Fair Access Interview (CAFAI) Service and related specialist English as an Additional Language (EAL) provisions provided by academies for the academic year 2017/18. 

RESOLVED:

10.1 An exemption from the procurement requirements of the Council’s Contract Standing Order No 96 be agreed in respect of contracts for the provision of:

a)    Additionally Resourced Provision (ARP) for the academic year 2017/18.

b)    The Choice, Advice and Fair Access Interview Service and specialist English as an Additional Language (EAL) provisions for the academic year 2017/18.

10.2 The award of the contracts referred to in Recommendation 10.1 for the academic year 2017/18 above be approved to the schools listed in Tables 1 and 2 of this report; and

10.3 The fact that the costs of the proposed contracts referred to in recommendation 10.2 would be fully met from the DSG be noted.

Councillor Mili Patel, Cabinet Member for Children and Young People, introduced the report and explained that Cabinet needed to agree to an exemption from the procurement requirements within the Council’s Contract Standing Orders in order to award contracts for the placement of children and young people in Additional Resourced Provisions; Choice, Advice, and Fair Access Interview Services (CAFAI) and English as an Additional Language (EAL) provisions for the 2017-2018 academic year. She explained that these services were to be provided by academies during the upcoming academic year. 

RESOLVED that:

12.1    An exemption from the procurement requirements of the Council’s Contract Standing Order No 96 be agreed in respect of contracts for the provision of:

a)    Additionally Resourced Provision (ARP) for the academic year 2017/18.

b)    The Choice, Advice and Fair Access Interview Service and specialist English as an Additional Language (EAL) provisions for the academic year 2017/18.

12.2    The award of the contracts referred to in Recommendation 10.1 for the academic year 2017/18 above be approved to the schools listed in Tables 1 and 2 of this report; and

12.3    The fact that the costs of the proposed contracts referred to in recommendation 10.2 would be fully met from the DSG be noted.