Decision details

Approval was sought for the extension to the existing Community Care (Domiciliary Care) Framework Agreements for the period 1 March 2022 to 31 August 2022.

Reasons for Decision

It remained the intention of the Council to secure a new model of delivering Domiciliary Care by 1 March 2022 and a procurement was underway to achieve that objective. However, approval for an extension to existing arrangements, as a contingency measure, was now sought should the new model not be delivered for service commencement by 1 March 2022.

Alternative Options

An options appraisal had been completed by Commissioners to consider alternative options should the new model of domiciliary care not be delivered for service commencement on 1 March 2022 and option 3 in the options appraisal table was the preferred solution.

Agreed:-

(1)     that an exemption to the Council’s Procurement and Contract Procedure Rules be approved to allow an extension to the existing Community Care (Domiciliary Care) Framework Agreements for the period 1 March 2022 to 31 August 2022 to allow for a contract extension to be effected given no further extension provisions exist within the existing contract terms;

(2)     that, subject to (1) above, the Director of Adult Social Care be authorised to extend the existing Community Care (Domiciliary Care) Framework Agreements from

         1 March 2022 to 31 August 2022 if the new model of purchasing domiciliary care was not deliverable by

         1 March 2022;

(3)     that the Director of Law and Governance and Monitoring Officer, or their designated representative, be authorised to execute any documents necessary within a reasonable time to give effect to the proposal in (1) above, should the enactment of the recommendation be necessitated.