Issue - meetings

To receive a report from the Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care and Public Health and the Director of Public Health, and to consider and endorse or make recommendations to the Cabinet Member on the proposed decision to award a contract for East Kent Drug and Alcohol Services to the successful bidder, following competitive tender.

1.            Ms Sharp introduced the report and, in response to a question about the competitive tendering exercise, explained that past tendering exercises had shown the market for drug and alcohol services to be robust.  Many current providers were in the voluntary sector and were experienced within that service area and familiar with the County Council’s contracting process.

2.            RESOLVED that:-

a)    the progress of the procurement of the East Kent drug and alcohol service be noted; and

b)    the decision proposed to be taken by the Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care and Public Health, to award the contract for East Kent drug and alcohol services to the successful bidder, following competitive tender, be endorsed.

To receive a report from the Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care and Public Health and the Director of Public Health on procurement of services in East Kent and in the Prisons service.

1.                  Ms Sharp introduced the report and explained the different commissioning arrangements for services in East Kent and those for Her Majesty’s Prison Service, which the County Council commissioned on behalf of NHS England. The latter had the challenge of responding to the changing profile and needs of the prison population.

2.                  RESOLVED that the planned procurement processes for East Kent and Kent and Medway Prisons Substance Misuse services be endorsed.