Issue - meetings

(Report of the Director Public Health): to seek approval for the award of contract for primary and secondary community HIV prevention services.

The interleaved report was the subject of a motion to exclude the press and public from the meeting as it contained exempt information relating to the business or financial affairs of any particular person (including the Authority holding that information).

The Committee considered a report seeking approval for a waiver of the requirement to obtain quotations or tender for the award of contract for a primary and secondary community HIV prevention programme for Enfield and Haringey. The Committee was also asked to approve the current provider, Embrace UK Community Support Centre as the preferred provider to deliver the contract going forward.

Confirmation was provided that Embrace UK had been identified during previous tender processes undertaken both on a pan-London and national level as the only community organisation in the country to provide the highly specialised, bespoke models of service delivery required for this programme. Additionally, the organisation had continued to exceed performance targets set under the current contract and provided further value through securing additional funding for complementary projects.

RESOLVED

·      That approval be granted to a waiver of the requirements to tender as required under CSO 9.01 as allowed under CSO 10.01.1 on the grounds set out in CSO 10.01.2a and CSO 10.01.2d.

·      That approval be granted to the award of contract for primary and secondary community HIV prevention programme for Enfield and Haringey to Embrace UK (Embrace UK Community Support Centre).