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 Kent and Medway Prisons to the successful bidder, following the conclusion of the procurement process.  

Ms K Sharp, Head of Public Health Commissioning, was in attendance for this item.

1.            Ms Sharp introduced the report and advised the committee that drug and alcohol services in prisons were commissioned by the County Council on behalf of NHS England and were funded by the latter. In response to a question, Ms Sharp explained that NHS England also determined the length of contract to be awarded to the success bidder, and this would be three years with an option to extend for two further years.  

2.         RESOLVED that the progress of the procurement of the Kent and Medway Prisons Drug and Alcohol Service be noted, and the decision proposed to be taken by the Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care and Public Health, to award the contract for Kent and Medway Prisons to the successful bidder, following the conclusion of the procurement process, be endorsed.