Decision details

This report was not available for the original dispatch because officers wished

to give strategic consideration to the length of contract to be recommended for

the day services. The report was urgent and cannot wait until the next

meeting of the Mayor & Cabinet Contracts on June 7 2017 because the

services subject of the report were now out of contract.

Where a report is received less than 5 clear days before the date of the

meeting at which the matter is being considered, then under the Local

Government Act 1972 Section 100(b)(4) the Chair of the Committee can take

the matter as a matter of urgency if he is satisfied that there are special

circumstances requiring it to be treated as a matter of urgency.  These special

circumstances have to be specified in the minutes of the meeting.

Councillor Janet Daby received an assurance from the representative of the

Executive Director for Community Services that the heating problems

experienced at Cinnamon Court the previous summer had been resolved.

Having considered a confidential officer report, and a presentation from the

Cabinet Member for Health, Well Being and Older People, Councillor Chris

Best, Mayor and Cabinet (Contracts), for the reasons set out in the report:

RESOLVED that:

(1) a contract be awarded to Housing and Care 21 for an extra care

service at two addresses, Cinnamon Court Deptford and Cedar Court Grove

Park to consist of 400 hours a week at each address (800 hours a week total),

the staff being paid at the  London Living Wage at a stated hourly cost of

£17.87 and a stated total annual cost and to be awarded for a period of three

years with a possible extension of two, running from 1st July 2017 till 30th

June 2020, with a possible extension to 30th June 2022;

(2) a contract be awarded to Housing and Care 21 for a day service at

Cinnamon Court and Cedar Court of 12 places a day at each address (120

place days a week in total) at a stated daily and annual cost with the day rate

supporting the payment of London Living wage and the contract to be

awarded for a period of eighteen months with a possible extension of six

months running from 1st July 2017 till 31st December 2018, with a possible

extension to 30th June 2019; and

(3) there be a three month extension to the current contract terms and

conditions from 1st April 2017 to the 30th June 2017.