Decision details
TRANSITION SUPPORT FOR YOUNG PEOPLE INTO EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Decisions:
Carole Burgoyne (Strategic Director for People) submitted a report on the proposed business case for the contract for transition support for young people into education, employment and training. The report indicated that the contract would be tendered as a Peninsula tender on behalf of Plymouth City, Cornwall, Devon County and Torbay Councils and with Plymouth as the lead authority, in an open or restricted competitive tender, dependent on response to the soft market test.
The attention of Cabinet Members was also drawn to the separate report, containing commercially sensitive information, referred to in minute 86 below.
Councillor McDonald (Cabinet Member for Children, Young People and Public Health) introduced the proposals.
Judith Harwood (Assistant Director for Education, Learning and Families) attended the meeting for this item and indicated that the Council had a statutory duty to provide advice to vulnerable groups, to ensure their safety.
Alternative options considered and the reasons for the decision –
As set out in the report.
Agreed that -
(1) |
the contract for “Transition Support for Young People into Education, Employment and Training” is taken to the market as a Peninsula tender on behalf of Plymouth City, Cornwall, Devon County and Torbay Councils (as set out in option 1) and with Plymouth as the lead authority, in an open or restricted competitive tender, dependent on response to the soft market test;
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(2) |
the decision to award the contract for three years with the option to extend for a further two years following the competitive tender, is delegated to the Cabinet Member for Children, Young People and Public Health. |
Publication date: 14/11/2014
Date of decision: 11/11/2014
Decided at meeting: 11/11/2014 - Cabinet
Effective from: 22/11/2014
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