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This report details the competitive tendering process of the Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for the Procurement and Management of Temporary Accommodation (Private Sector Accommodation) and makes a recommendation as to award pursuant to Contract Standing Orders 88(c).

(i)         that approval be given to the appointment of the contractors recommended and listed at paragraph 3.2.10 of the report from the Director of Regeneration and Major Projects onto the Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for the Procurement and Management of Temporary Accommodation. It is anticipated that The DPS will commence in April 2013 for a period of two (2) years with an option to extend up to a further two (2) years;

(ii)        that during the operation of the Dynamic Purchasing System, approval be given to the addition of new suppliers at any time to the DPS provided they meet the set evaluation criteria;

(iii)       that authority be delegated to the Assistant Director of Housing to approve and appoint new suppliers onto the DPS subsequent to it first being established. 

The report from the Director of Regeneration and Major Projects detailed the competitive tendering process of the Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for the Procurement and Management of Temporary Accommodation (Private Sector Accommodation) and made a recommendation as to award pursuant to Contract Standing Orders 88(c). Councillor Long referred to the human impact of the proposals which would result in the relocation of homeless families due to the introduction of the housing benefit cap which made it harder for people to find temporary accommodation in the borough. Increasingly more people, many of whom were large families, were presenting themselves as homeless and regrettably accommodation had to be identified far afield, outside the borough.

The Executive also had before them an appendix to the report which was not for publication as it contained the following category of exempt information as specified in Schedule 12 of the Local Government (Access to Information Act) 1972: 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 appointment of the contractors recommended and listed at paragraph 3.2.10 of the report from the Director of Regeneration and Major Projects onto the Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for the Procurement and Management of Temporary Accommodation. It is anticipated that the DPS would commence in April 2013 for a period of two years with an option to extend up to a further two (2) years;

(ii)        that during the operation of the Dynamic Purchasing System, approval be given to the addition of new suppliers at any time to the DPS provided they meet the set evaluation criteria;

(iii)       that authority be delegated to the Assistant Director of Housing to approve and appoint new suppliers onto the DPS subsequent to it first being established.