Decision details

Date of Decision:

02/05/2025

Title:

Officer Decision Record to award a Call Off arrangement referenced as a ‘Work Order’ to We Are With You (WY) via the Non-core Framework Agreement, to deliver the additional activities required in the utilisation of the Drug and Alcohol Treatment and Recovery Grant (DATRIG) 2025/26.

Decision Maker:

(Including Job Title)

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

Details of Specific Delegation

The specific delegation was approved by Cabinet during its 17 March 2025 meeting;

‘Approve the delegation to Director of Public Health, in consultation with the lead member for Adult Care and Public Health, for spend against the Drug and Alcohol Treatment and Recovery Improvement Grant (DATRIG) in line with grant conditions.’

Printed minutes Monday 17-Mar-2025 10.00 Cabinet.pdf

Minute 130 refers.

Decision:

Officer Decision to award a Call Off arrangement referenced as a ‘Work Order’ to We Are With You (WY) via the Non-core Framework Agreement, to deliver the additional activities required in the utilisation of the Drug and Alcohol Treatment and Recovery Grant (DATRIG) 2025/26.

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 March 2025. WY are the Councils sole provider of the pathway for Alcohol and Drugs 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).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 care services that fall within the procurement regime established by the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 that came into effect on 1^st January 2024.

Although this decision is made after the 1^{st of} 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 Public Contract Regulations 2015 (as amended), it is valid under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.

Details of alternative options considered and rejected:

None

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

None

Dispensations Granted:

(If any)

None

Conflicts of interest declared by the Decision Maker if they sit as a Cabinet appointed representative to an outside body which relates to the decision:

None

Dispensations Granted:

(If any)

None

Reports or parts of reports considered

Officer Decision Record to award a Call Off arrangement referenced as a ‘Work Order’ to We Are With You (WY) via the Non-core Framework Agreement, to deliver the additional activities required in the utilisation of the Drug and Alcohol Treatment and Recovery Grant (DATRIG) 2025/26.

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