Carole Burgoyne (Strategic Director for People) will submit a report seeking to enhance current community domiciliary care provision by replacing one contract which is due to expire on 3 April 2016 and to award an additional contract.  The report will set out the result of the tender process and recommend the award of two contracts for community domiciliary care provision to the tenderers who submitted the most economically advantageous tenders.

The background paper (the equality impact assessment) can be accessed at the Council’s website Council and Democracy/Councillors and Committees/Library/Cabinet background papers or using the following hyperlink –

http://tinyurl.com/q3d6bmh

Carole Burgoyne (Strategic Director for People) submitted a report seeking to enhance current community domiciliary care provision by replacing one contract which was due to expire on 3 April 2016 and to award an additional contract.  The report set out the result of the tender process and recommended the award of two contracts for community domiciliary care provision to the tenderers who had submitted the most economically advantageous tenders.

Councillor Tuffin (Cabinet Member for Health and Adult Social Care) introduced the proposals.  

Councillor Evans (Leader) referred to the full details of the tender process which for reasons of commercial confidentiality were contained in a separate private report.

Caroline Paterson (Strategic Commissioning Manager) attended the meeting for this item and Cabinet was advised that the contracts would ensure that workers were properly rewarded, that visits were meaningful, would promote quality services, provide more flexibility across the market and provide choice for people.

Alternative options considered and reasons for the decision –

As set out in the report.

Agreed to award a two year contract, commencing on 4 April 2016, containing an option to extend the contract for a further three years in annual increments, to the two successful tenderers for the delivery of a Community Domiciliary Care Services in Plymouth identified in the Part 2 report (referred to in minute 42 below).

(Councillor Jon Taylor declared a private interest in the above item).