Issue - meetings

Forward Plan Ref: 2023/156

Contact: Rosie Rowe, Head of Healthy Place Shaping, rosie.rowe@oxfordshire.gov.uk

Report by Corporate Director of Public Health & Wellbeing (CMDPHI6).

The information in this case is exempt in that it falls within the following prescribed categories:

3. Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information)

and since it is considered that, in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.

The annex containing exempt information under the above paragraph is attached.

To consider the award of contract for the Community Outreach Active Travel programme which will undergo a tendering process in summer 2023 with a start date of 1 October 2023.

The Cabinet Member is RECOMMENDED to

a)           Note that officers have undertaken a procurement to  commission  the provision of the Community Outreach Active Travel (COAT) programme comprising a service contract and a grants programme over 3 years with the option to extend the service by up to a further 2 years, with a total estimated  value of £1,025,000;

b)           Authorise the award of the Community Outreach Active Travel (COAT) programme to the preferred bidder identified in confidential Annex A for the price tendered for a period of 3 years with the option to extend the service by up to a further 2 years;

c)           to delegate authority to the Director of Public Health in consultation with the Head of Legal and Deputy Monitoring Officer to finalise the contract documentation; and

d)           delegate authority to the Director of Public Health in consultation with the Head of Legal and Deputy Monitoring Officer to approve the exercise of the option to extend the contract for up to a further 2 years as detailed in recommendation (b) above.

Recommendations approved.