Issue - decisions

To go ahead and procure the contracts for the Everybody Benefits Framework through the Council’s Procurement and Contract Management Service, with a Gateway report considered in accordance with the Council’s Procurement and Contract Procedure Rules.

The Everybody Benefits Framework is part of the Pay and Reward policy framework. The Everybody Benefits scheme has been in place for staff at the Council since 2007 to provide discounts to employees of both local and national retailers of goods and services, and to provide a platform from which employees could access salary sacrifice schemes. The scheme is also intended to aid in recruitment, retention and align with the Authority’s sustainable development objectives.

The schemes have been well used by Council employees over the years; currently approximately 8000 users are registered on the platform and the framework lots have been taken up by 28 organisations.

In the interests of transparency to note in this decision record that the decision taker leases a car through the current lease scheme.