Purpose

To
delegate authority to the Executive Director of Adult Social Care,
Wellbeing and Communities in consultation with the Cabinet Member
for Adult Social Care Commissioning to implement the preferred option, to ensure
provisions for residential and nursing services can continue to be
delivered in five homes, owned by Gloucestershire County
Council:
 
The Coombs
(Forest of Dean)
Rodley House (Forest of
Dean)
Henlow Court (Stroud)
Grevill House
(Cheltenham)
Paternoster
(Cotswolds)

Decision

Cllr Carole Allaway Martin sought Cabinet approval to
delegate authority to the Executive
Director of Adult Social Care, Wellbeing and Communities in
consultation with the Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care
Commissioning to implement
thepreferred option, to ensure
provisions for residential and nursingservices can continue to be delivered in five
homes, owned byGloucestershire
County Council:

The Coombs (Forest of Dean)
Rodley House (Forest of Dean)
Henlow Court (Stroud)
GrevillHouse
(Cheltenham)
Paternoster (Cotswolds)
 
Having considered all of the
information, Cabinet noted the report and
 
 
RESOLVED to:
 
Delegate authority to the Executive Director of Adult Social
Care, Wellbeing and Communities in consultation with the Cabinet
Member for Adult Social Care Commissioning to:

1.
Exercise the break clause and end the care contract with
Gloucestershire Care Partnership with respect to the provision of
residential and nursing care at the following five homes owned by
Gloucestershire County Council:

a)
The Coombs (Forest of Dean)
b)
Rodley House (Forest of Dean)
c)
Henlow Court (Stroud)
d)
Grevill House (Cheltenham)
e)
Paternoster (Cotswolds)

2.
Conduct a competitive procurement process in respect of a 7-year
framework agreement, with the option to call-off individual
contracts for each care home for the supply of residential and
nursing care provision

3.
Award such Framework Agreement to the preferred
tenderer;

4.
Award call-off contracts under the framework for the supply of
residential and nursing Provision to the five homes listed in
recommendation (1) above, for a period of 5 years with the option to extend for a further 2 years, whose
combined aggregate value shall not
exceed £53.9m (excluding
contractual inflation, if applicable)

5. The Framework Agreement shall make provision to
call-off further contracts for the supply of residential and
nursing care at additional homes (including new-build homes owned
by Gloucestershire County Council and any that are returned to
Gloucestershire Council Council) up to a total framework value of
of £234 million (excluding
contractual inflation, if applicable). Any such additional call-off
contracts will be subject to a further Cabinet decision.

6. Note that the effect of exercising the break
clause with respect to these five homes will not end the contract
with our current provider in regard to
the provision of care in the remaining four homes:

a) Millbrook Lodge (Tewkesbury)
b) Monkscroft Care Centre
(Cheltenham)
c) Jubilee Lodge (Cotswolds)
d) Chestnut Court
(Gloucester)