Decision details
Procurement of Universal Youth Services
Decision Maker: Corporate Director Children and Young People's Services
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Purpose:
To approve the procurement of Universal Youth
Services
Decision:
That the Authority carry out an Open
Procurement process under the Light-Touch Regime for the
re-tendering of Universal Youth Services. The estimated contract
value will be in the region of £1.5 million over a proposed
8-year duration.
Reasons for the decision:
The tender exercise will be a re-procurement
of the existing provision that was originally procured in 2017 and
was extended, as per the contract terms and conditions, for a
further two years until 31 August 2022 in 2020.
Statutory guidance states that under section 507B of the Education
Act 1996, every local authority in England must “so far as
reasonably practicable, secure for qualifying young
persons…access to sufficient educational and leisure-time
activities which are for the improvement of their wellbeing”
therefore the Authority commissions Voluntary and Direct Funded
Youth clubs across the County.
Alternative options considered:
None
Publication date: 25/11/2021
Date of decision: 25/11/2021
Effective from: 31/12/2021
Accompanying Documents:
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