Issue - meetings

The Select Committee will receive a presentation on this item at the meeting.

The Your Care, Your Way Project Lead gave a presentation to the Select Committee, a brief summary is set out below.

The Procurement Process

65 expressions of interest were given.

4 bids have been received and the names of those will be made public on April 18^th.

In May the process will see the 4 bids reduced down to 2 with the aim of announcing the preferred provider in mid-July.

Critical Success Factors

·  A person not a condition

·  A single plan

·  Managing change

·  Information

·  Value for money

Commercial Model

Prime Provider

·  Living well and staying well

·  Regaining health and independence

·  Enhanced and specialist support

Learning the lessons from elsewhere

Rigorous evaluation and assessment of risks within the procurement, including re-assessment of bidders where there are material changes to their arrangement during the process, and a full awareness of ownership and legal structures associated with partnership arrangements

The ability to triangulate the narrative (quality response) of a bid with income and staffing assumptions contained within a bid

A commitment to proactive engagement with, and full reporting to, Executive Officers and Members

Continuing Engagement

·  Information Sharing

·  Events

·  Community Champions

Councillor Eleanor Jackson said that she had concerns over the preferred provider being able to make too much profit.

The Your Care, Your Way Project Lead replied that the matters of value for money and profit are both assessed as part of this process. She added that they were not looking for this to be a bidding war and that it was about how we can use £70m to the best of its ability. She stated that a large amount of due diligence will take place.

Councillor Paul May asked if the project had been subject to audit, both internally and externally.

The Director of Adult Care and Health Commissioning replied that the Council’s Section 151 Officer has been involved throughout the process.

The Chair thanked the Your Care, Your Way Project Lead for her presentation on behalf of the Select Committee.