Issue - meetings

The Cabinet Member for Finance, Growth and Core Services presented a report on proposals to directly award a maximum two-year contract for the provision of staffing support to the Welfare Service, to assist the Council in meeting its statutory duties relating to the processing of benefits claims and welfare administration.

The Cabinet Member commented that it was necessary for measures to be put in place to provide the flexibility needed to match resources to service demand and he referred to the options appraisal within the report. 

Cabinet resolved to:

(i)  Agree that the Council proceeds with the procurement of a resilience contract for the Welfare Service via a Direct Award to Consultancy+ (part of the Reed Group) via the YPO Framework 940 (Managing Consultancy & Professional Services), in accordance with the strategy set out in the report; and

(ii)  Authorise the Director of Support and Collections, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Finance, Growth and Core Services and the Chief Legal Officer, to conduct the procurement and award and enter into the contract(s) and all other necessary or ancillary agreements with the contractor, in accordance with the strategy set out in the report.