Issue - meetings

Report of the Director of Older People

The Cabinet considered the report of the Director of Older People on the outcome of the re-commissioning and tendering of domiciliary personal care services for vulnerable adults.

RESOLVED: That

(1)       contracts be awarded for the provision of Domiciliary Personal Care for Vulnerable Adults to the following providers with the highest score in each lot identified below, for a 5-year period, with an option for 2 further years, commencing 1 April 2012:

Area 1 - Careforce Group Plc

Area 2 - Delta Care Plc

Area 3 - Warren Care Limited

Area 4 - Care Connect UK Limited

Area 5 - Care Connect UK Limited

Area 6 - Warren Care Limited

(2)       the following providers with the second highest score in each lot be appointed as the Reserve Supplier of services in the event of capacity problems or service failure of the primary supplier:

            Area 1 - City and County Healthcare Group

            Area 2 - Careforce Group Plc

Area 3 - Delta Care Plc

Area 4 - ALPHACARE NORTHWEST

Area 5 - Local Solutions

Area 6 - Local Solutions

(3)       it be noted that the proposal was a Key Decision but, unfortunately, had not been included in the Council’s Forward Plan of Key Decisions.  Consequently, the Chair of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Health and Social Care) had been consulted under Rule 15 of the Access to Information Procedure Rules of the Constitution, to the decision being made by Cabinet as a matter of urgency on the basis that it was impracticable to defer the decision until the commencement of the next Forward Plan, because the new contracts would result in more favourable rates and better value for money to the Council and that an early decision would allow for timely commencement of new contracts without needing to extend the existing contracts.