Issue - meetings

This report details the process of the competitive tendering of two contracts for the Procurement and Management of Temporary Accommodation (Brent Direct Leasing Scheme), and makes a recommendation as to award.  The Executive gave authority to tender for the contracts at the meeting of 19 October 2009.

(Appendix also referred to below)

(i)         that approval be given to the award of both the Procurement and Management of Temporary Accommodation contracts to Brent Housing Partnership Ltd from 1 September 2010 for 2 years with provision to extend for a further 12 months;

(ii)        that approval be given to an extension to the current contract for Procurement and Management of Temporary Accommodation to cover the period from 16 August 2010 to 31 August 2010 until the projected start  date of the new contracts;

(iii)       that authority be delegated to the Director of Housing and Community Care to further extend the current contract for Procurement and Management of Temporary Accommodation beyond 31 August 2010 if required, to allow for a later start date than 1 September 2010 for the new contracts, whether due to delay in obtaining the required Secretary of State consent to the outsourced service or otherwise.

Councillor Thomas (Lead Member, Housing and Customer Services) introduced the report which detailed the process of the competitive tendering of two contracts for the Procurement and Management of Temporary Accommodation (Brent Direct Leasing Scheme), and made a recommendation as to award. Advertisements for the tender had been placed in November 2009 and following evaluation, Brent Housing Partnership had been assessed as the best provider.

The Executive also had before them an appendix to the report which was not for publication as it contained the following category of exempt information as specified in Schedule 12 of the Local Government (Access to Information Act) 1972: 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

(i)         that approval be given to the award of both the Procurement and Management of Temporary Accommodation contracts to Brent Housing Partnership Ltd from 1 September 2010 for 2 years with provision to extend for a further 12 months;

(ii)        that approval be given to an extension to the current contract for Procurement and Management of Temporary Accommodation to cover the period from 16 August 2010 to 31 August 2010 until the projected start  date of the new contracts;

(iii)       that authority be delegated to the Director of Housing and Community Care to further extend the current contract for Procurement and Management of Temporary Accommodation beyond 31 August 2010 if required, to allow for a later start date than 1 September 2010 for the new contracts, whether due to delay in obtaining the required Secretary of State consent to the outsourced service or otherwise.