As Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care and Public Health, I agree to:
APPROVE the recommissioning of the Older Persons Residential and Nursing Care Service,
EXTEND the current Dynamic Purchasing System contract arrangements for a potential further period of up to nine months to enable the awarding of new contracts and mobilisation of the Older Persons Residential Nursing Care Service under a new Light Touch Open Framework;
DELEGATE authority to the Corporate Director Adult Social Care and Health to take relevant actions including but not limited to, opening the Light Touch Open Framework at regular intervals to allow new providers to join the framework and finalising the terms of and entering into required legal agreements, as necessary to award the contract with new arrangements to begin on 1 April 2026; and
DELEGATE authority to the Corporate Director Adult Social Care and Health, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care and Public Health and Corporate Director Finance, to utilise the relevant contract extensions.