Minutes for Cabinet Procurement Committee meeting, Jan 13 2009, 4.30PM official page

To agree the Minutes of the meeting 10 December 2008

Committee Work Programme – Forward Procurement Plan Briefing Note with Appendix 1 Contact Juliet Okwuraiwe – 020 8356 3675

The report seeks approval to procure Family Intervention Services via a Single Tender Action from Action For Children and Hackney Homes under separate contract arrangements.

A. To progress the procurement of the Child Poverty Family Intervention  Project via a Single Tender Action (STA)  to contract with Hackney Homes for the  following;

·   administration of collating referrals from the neighbourhood offices,

·  to provide dispersed housing when necessary.

·  to liaise and work closely with the provider delivering the intervention programs with regards to tenancy issues.

B.  Children and Young Peoples Services on behalf of Supporting People and Safer Communities contracting directly with Action For Children to deliver the front line Family Intervention Project Service until 31/3/2010.

This is to allow time to review the service and to complete the market testing.

The report considers the lessons that have been learned from the Clissold Leisure Centre project and explains how this learning has been integrated with the project methodology within Community Services Directorate and disseminated more widely across the Council.

The report is the second Review Point 5 report which reviews the implementation of the Professional Services Frameworks which was procured in order to provide technical and professional support to Decent Homes and other construction related programmes, after a third year of operation.