Issue - meetings

(Report of the Director of Place and Sustainability): to seek approval for the award of contract for the coroners’ removals service.

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 the award of contract for the Coroners’ removals service covering the collection and transportation of bodies from place of death to assigned mortuaries. The new contract would run from 1 July 2012 to 30 June 2015 with the provision to extend for up to a year and would cover the five boroughs within the Coroners jurisdiction, with Haringey acting as lead authority for the procurement. The Committee noted the anticipated saving to be realised from the new contract.

RESOLVED

·      That approval be granted for the award of contract for a Coroners’ removal service to Dignity Funeral Ltd for a period of three years from 1 July 2012 to 30 June 2015 with the provision to extend for further periods of up to one year, as allowed under CSO 9.07 as the most economically advantageous tender.

·      The Committee agreed that the contract would be monitored by the Council’s Coronial service: the contractor would be required to submit monthly statements of work carried out and invoices raised in relation to services delivered including details of names of deceased, date of collection, time of call out instruction, name of Coroner’s manager instructing, time of arrival to collect body, time of delivery to public mortuary and details of amount claimed per body collected and delivered to mortuary.