The Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care and Health has taken the following decision:
1) That the Integrated Community Equipment Service be delivered as an integrated service from 1December 2015, jointly funded by Kent County Council and NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups and delivered by a preferred bidder identified, as a result of a competitive tendering exercise; and
2) To delegate to the Corporate Director for Social Care, Health and Wellbeing, or other nominated officer, responsibility to enter all necessary contractual arrangements to formalise the joint funding arrangements. These will include, but not be limited to,:
a. the signing and affixing of the Council seal to a section 75 agreement between Kent County Council and health partners.
b. the advertisement and management of a competitive tendering exercise and the award of contract to the preferred bidder, consulting the Cabinet Member as required by the Council’s scheme of financial delegation.