Decision details

1.          That the Executive Director of Adult Social Care and Health in consultation with Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care and Public Health, in addition to other borough specific delegates, for each authority approve and directly award the contracts as recommended in the report noting that the total spend for the school nurse services, across the three boroughs, for the 12 month period from 1^st April 2016 to 31^st March 2017 is £4,584,255 pa which now includes the 10% saving achieved on previous year total spend for the provision.

2.          Approved a waiver in accordance with section 2.2 of the Westminster Procurement Code to allow the local authority to extend the contract to CLCH as listed in Appendix A, Table 1 to the report.

3.          Approved the extension of  the contract to CLCH as listed in Appendix A to the report, Table 1 and for the values of £1,817,044 pa  effective from 1^st April 2016 to expire on 31st March 2017

1.              The recommendations for the direct award of three sovereign contracts to CLCH for the provision of school nurse services across the three boroughs for a period of 12 months with the ability to terminate with 3 months’ notice is proposed in order to:

·             allow time to engage with relevant internal and external stakeholders around the future model and re-procurement.

·             Fit in with the timing for the completion of the smarter budgeting work.

·             allow sufficient time to redesign, re-procure services that will form School Health Service contracts.

·             to ensure service continuity during the re-procurement phase.

·             enable the termination of existing contracts ready for the new contract to begin following the re-procurement of the school heath service.

2.       Savings and efficiency discussion have taken place with CLCH over the past three month leading to this report. CLCH have been notified of efficiency savings of 10% of the existing contract values.  These reduction in contract value will be implemented for April 2016 onwards. Figures in section 12 of the report have been adjusted to reflect the savings made.