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.