Decision details

Decision Title

Award of the Stop Smoking Services Support Grant to Connect Healthcare Rotherham CIC

Date of Decision:

02 April 2024

Decision Maker:

(Including Job Title)

Ian Spicer – Strategic Director of Adults, Housing & Public Health

Specific Delegation:

(If any)

Under Section 4C3 of the Responsibilities for Functions document (App 9 of the Constitution) the Strategic Director of Adult Care, Housing and Public Health is authorised to discharge executive functions through the commissioning and provision of social services for adults and public health services for the whole population and delivery of housing for the Borough, including: -

3. Public Health (a) Commissioning and Quality (b) Health Improvement (c) Health Intelligence (d) Health Protection

Brief Description of Decision:

The officer decision confirms the decision to award Work Order(s) to the total value of £344,845 to Connect Healthcare Rotherham CiC via the Non-Core Framework. This funding is from the Local Stop Smoking Services and Support Grant 2024/25. The Work Order delivery period commenced 01 of April 2024 and will expire 31 March 2025.

The Work Order is required to deliver specific activities in the utilisation of the Local Stop Smoking Services and Support Grant 2024/25 

Details of the Work Order awarded will be made available on the Council’s contracts register, Contracts Finder and Find a Tender.

Reasons for the Decision:

The decision is being made in accordance with the Council’s Constitution Appendix 1, Executive Procedure Rules, Part 3, 7(4)(i) decisions which are a direct consequence of implementing a previous key decision and were contemplated by the decision maker when the original key decision was made.

The decision is made in order to deliver the additional service capacity described in the Cabinet paper of February 2024. Connect Healthcare Rotherham CIC are the Councils sole provider of the pathway for local community stop smoking services.

The Core Contract and Non-Core Framework were awarded following an openly advertised competitive procurement process undertaken in line with the Social and Other Specific Services provision of the Public Contract Regulations 2015 (as amended) (PCR’s). The award of the Work Order uses the Non-Core Framework, which permits the commissioning of additional activity as described.

The services specified in the Work Order are health and social care services that fall within the procurement regime established by the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 (PSR Regs) that came into effect on 01 January 2024.

Although this decision is made after the 01 January 2024, the Officer has been advised that the saving transitional arrangements set out in Regulation 29(3) of the PSR Regs will apply to it and that they are satisfied. It follows that although the contract has been called off under a framework agreement made under the PCR’s, it is valid under the PSR Regs.

Details of alternative options considered and rejected:

Any alternative procurement procedure would need to comply with the requirements of the PSR Regs. This would require an entirely new procurement under the terms of the PSR Regs and entail considerable delay. Only the proposed arrangements using the existing framework agreement will meet the requirements of the PSR Regs transitional arrangements and enable delivery of the services within the required time frame.

Conflicts of interest declared by any Executive Member consulted by the decision maker which relates to the decision:

None

Dispensations Granted:

(If any)

 None

Reports or parts of reports considered

DLT paper on Officer Decision Record to award a Call Off arrangement referenced as a ‘Work Order’ to Connect Healthcare Rotherham CIC via the Non-core Framework Agreement, to continue the delivery of the additional activities required in the utilisation of the Local Stop Smoking Services and Support Grant 2024/25

Approved by Ian Spicer, Strategic Director of Adults, Housing and Public Health.