The Director of Adults and Health is asked to:
Give authority to proceed with a procurement process to appoint a suitable provider or providers to deliver community based short break services from 1st October 2019. The budget per annum is £1,299,440 and the contract period will be 3½ years with options to extend up to 24 months.
Waive CPRs 8.1, 8.2, 9.1 and 9.2 using the authority set out in CPR 1.3. in order to award new interim contracts direct to existing providers for a period of 6 months commencing 1st April 2019. The combined value of the interim contracts is £564,720.
Decision type: Key
Reason Key: Expenditure > £250,000;
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Wards affected: (All Wards);
Notice of proposed decision first published: 11/12/2018
Decision due: 16 Jan 2019 by Director of Adults and Health
Lead director: Director of Adults and Health
Department: Adult and Health
Contact: Ian Brooke-Mawson, Strategic Commissioning Manager 0113 378 4183 Email: ian.brooke-mawson@leeds.gov.uk.
Consultation process
An initial period of consultation was undertaken to ensure that the views of current customers of community based respite services were taken into account prior to recommendations being made about the future provision of short breaks in Leeds.
A further period of consultation undertaken ensured that it was explicit to people who may not have eligible needs that they would not be able to access community based respite services but would be supported to access Tier 1 and/or Tier 2 services as a way of carers having a break and so there was an opportunity for stakeholders to influence the final shape and design of a community based respite service specification
Consultees
Existing customers
General Public
Leeds Carers Partnership which has strong representation from carers, voluntary and community sector organisations and statutory sector partnersExisting customers
General Public
Leeds Carers Partnership which has strong representation from carers, voluntary and community sector organisations and statutory sector partners