Decision details

Decision Maker: Corporate Director (Operations and Delivery)

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Purpose:

The Council has been awarded £120,451 from DLUHC's Rough Sleeper Initiative fund. The funding was bid for as part of a collaborative bid on behalf of Essex councils by Essex County Council.
The funding will be paid over the next three years and TDC will enter into a memorandum of understanding with ECC in order to receive the funds.
The funding will be used by TDC to commission a Rough Sleeper Outreach Support Service. This will be a continuation of a service currently in place and funded by previous Rough Sleeper Initiative grant.
TDC has undertaken a tender exercise and received only one bid from the current supplier - Anglia Care Trust. It is proposed to accept their bid and award the contract to them based on an annual fee of £30,128.through to 2024.

Decision:

To enter into a memorandum of understand with Essex County Council to accept Rough Sleeper Initiative funding totalling £120,451 over the next three years.

To accept the single tender submission form Anglia Care Trust and enter into a contract with them to deliver a Rough Sleeper Outreach service.

Alternative options considered:

No alternative options have been considered.

Publication date: 28/09/2022

Date of decision: 27/09/2022