Issue - meetings

Forward Plan Ref: 2023/166

Contact: Charlotte Davey, Head of Disabled Children’s Services, charlotte.davey@oxfordshire.gov.uk and Andrea Cochrane, SEND Commissioning Manager, andrea.cochrane@oxfordshire.gov.uk

Report by Corporate Director for Children’s Services

To seek approval  to award a contract to a new provider, subject to completion of a full tendering process.

The Cabinet Member is RECOMMENDED

a)              To approve the award of contract to the preferred bidder following the completion of the procurement process for the recommissioning of the Summerfield Disabled Children’s Residential Home, and to enable a new contract to be in place for 1st April 2024. 

b)              To approve the budgetary commitment for a period of 3 years (including provision for annual review and uplift) with an option to extend by up to a further 4 years.

Recommendations approved.