Decision details

Request to Modify the Community Home Care Service Contract under Public Contract Regulations 2015, Section 72

Reference: D52874

Decision Maker: Director of Adults and Health

Is Key decision?: Yes

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Purpose:

Brief Description

The Community Home Care Service contract expires 31st May 2021 and work is currently underway to develop a completely new home care model for Leeds based on community wellbeing teams. This is a significant change programme which commenced in 2019 and the directorate has now implemented an 18 moth pilot project, which commenced in September 2020, to test and develop the new model of care. There has been a delay to the commencement of the pilot project due to the impact of the Covid pandemic on the health and social care sector in the city therefore, to allow this pilot to progress and the learning to be realised so that it can inform any future model of home care support, a modification to the current home care contract is required. This modification will extend the period of the original contract for up to 12 months from 1st June 2021, with an option for a further 12 month period. The decision to modify the contract in this way would be taken under section 72 of the Public Contract Regulations 2015.

Impact On Wards[1]

N/A

Financial and procurement implications[2]

As home care is a statutory service for the authority to provide, the cost of the services is included in the Adults and health base budget. There will not be any additional financial impact as a result of this decision. The directorate will through a separate decision, review the fees paid for home care services.

 


[1] List the wards to be affected by the decision and give a brief overview of the impact expected.

[2] Give brief details of the impact of the decision to be taken (is this a new procurement or the extension of an existing contract, what is the magnitude of spend / saving associated with the decision)

Decision:

 

a)  The Deputy Director of Adults and Health approved the modification of the Community Home Care Service contract under Regulation 72 (1) (b) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 to modify the contract for 12 months from 1st June 2021 to 31st May 2022 with the option to extend for up to a further 12 month period with the list of providers appended to this report under Appendix 1.

The Deputy Director of Adults and Health noted that the Head of Service, Commissioning and Business Development, Older Adults, will oversee the implementation of this decision

Reason Key: Financial Impact>£500K;

Wards Affected: (All Wards);

Other reasons / organisations consulted

The Executive Member for Health, Wellbeing and Adults will be consulted.

Consultees

Cllr Fiona Venner

Contact: Caroline Baria, Director of Adults and Health 0113 378 9914 Email: Caroline.Baria@leeds.gov.uk.

Publication date: 17/03/2021

Date of decision: 25/03/2021

Effective from: 02/04/2021

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