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[Report of the Director for Adults and Health. To  be  introduced by the Cabinet Member for Adults and Health.]

The Housing Related Support contracts for the Single Homeless Pathway were awarded to St Mungo's and St Ignatius on 12/01/2015 and are due to end on 11/01/2021. The contracts were due to go out to tender in March 2020 but due to COVID19 organisations were unable to undertake a full tender process. Procurement have granted an extension of up to 14 months to allow for organisations to return to normal and be able to bid for services.  Therefore the report will be seeking to extend the contracts to 11/03/2022.

(Cllr Ibrahim returned to the meeting for this item)

The Cabinet Member for Adults and Health outlined the Council’s commitment to end street homelessness in the borough and ensuring vulnerable people have access to high quality supported accommodation to help rebuild their lives.

The Council currently commissioned and directly delivered a range of supported accommodation for single adults that provided person-centred and tailored support. The Cabinet Member recommended that these contracts should be extended, as set out in the report, to offer vulnerable residents’ continuity and security while a new service model was co-designed and put in place in 2021.

In response to a question from Cllr Ogiehor , it was noted that there was a range of support in place for people on the single homeless pathway. The contract extensions allowed the Council to continue to work with the current providers. The Council recognised that no one agency could meet the varied needs of users of there was whole system approach being taken forward and awareness that support continued, once the vulnerable adult was moved to accommodation.

Further to considering the exempt information at item 420,

RESOLVED

To approve, in accordance with Contract Standing Order (CSO) 10.02.1(b), the variation and extension of the following single homeless contracts for a period of up to 14 months as outlined below:

(i)            St Mungo’s Community Housing Association Ltd for the Assessment an Engagement Service at a total additional cost of £508,908. The aggregated value of the contract over a period of 7 years and 2 months will be £3,764,269 including proposed extension.

(ii)          St Mungo’s Community Housing Association Ltd for the provision of a Specialist Substance Misuse and Offender Service and Complex Needs Service at a total additional cost of £789,974. The aggregated value of the contract over a period of 6 years and 11 months will be £5,863,768 including proposed extension.

(iii)         St Mungo’s Community Housing Association Ltd for the provision of Women’s Complex Needs Service and Northumberland Park Pilot Service at a total additional cost of £322,979. The aggregated value of the contract over a period of 4 years and 2 months will be £997,879.00 including proposed extension.

(iv)         St Ignatius Housing Association Ltd for the provision of a Move Through Service at a total additional cost of £145,470 and a reduction of units from 57 to 50. The aggregated value of the contract over a period of 7 years and 2 months will be £1,203,492 including proposed extension.

(v)          Variation of contacts to include provision for the Councils to claw back funding from providers who do not fulfil the staffing requirement of their contract.

Reasons for decision

It is in the Council’s overall interest to agree to the extension of the current contracts whilst a tender process is completed. The current contracts were awarded for a period of four years with option to extend for an additional two years until January 2021. An open tender process was planned early this year in order to and ensure new contracts would  ...  view the full minutes text for item 412