Decision details

Seeking authority to procure the Public Health 0-19 Healthy Child Programme from April 2019.

The Director of Public Health has approved the following recommendation:

·  grant authority to procure the '0-19 Public Health lntegrated Nursing Service' utilising the negotiated procedure without publication of a notice with Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust (LCH) for the provision of the service from 1 April 2019.

·  approve a contract length period of 4 years, with the option to extend for a further 2 plus 2 years with a maximum budget of £10,779,200 per annum.

·  grant approval to waive CPR 1 5.2 to change the tender evaluation quality threshold for the '0-19 Public Health lntegrated Nursing Service procurement exercise to be based on 100% quality.

To note that:

·  the Director of Public Health will use their delegated authority to take commissioning decisions which will be a direct consequence of this key decision, for example approval of the detailed specifications for procurement and subsequent contract award. These will be at most a significant operational decision. This is subject to the decisions being in line with the key principles and features as described in the report.

Extensive consultation has taken place as part of the strategic review of the Public Health 0 – 19 Healthy Child Programme.

Stakeholders (internal and external), including key commissioning partners and the current provider(s), staff, service users, Executive Members, PPPU and legal services.