Issue - decisions

The Cabinet Member for Adults and Health has approved that:

(1) a competitive tender process be commenced to commission a range of carer short breaks, to begin on 1 April 2019. To contract for a period of 3 years, with an option to extend for a period, or periods, of up to 2 years and;

(2) authority is delegated to the Executive Director, Children’s, Adults’, Families, Health and Education to award the contracts to the bidders submitting the tenders that best meet the requirements set out in the report and to agree to future extensions of the contract up to a maximum of two years;

(3) initial expenditure, allowing for an annual inflationary uplift, be a maximum of £5.547m with provision for up to an additional £1million to be invested over the lifetime of the contract in new and innovative services, subject to providers being able to demonstrate that this will secure benefits for the County Council at least equivalent to the increase in expenditure.