Decision details
Direct Award to Look Ahead Care and Support for the support contract for Hackney Road, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government funded Homeless Hostel Project.
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Purpose:
A Mayoral Decision is required to enable
London Borough of Tower Hamlets to ‘directly award’ a
contract to Look Ahead Care and Support for the provision of
support services at the Hackney Road Homeless Hotel. LBTH has put
in a bid to the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local
Government (MHCLG) “Next Steps Accommodation Programme”
for money to re-envision Hackney Road Homeless Project as a complex
needs service for rough sleepers who have been brought off the
streets through the ‘everyone in’ directive during the
Covid-19 lockdown and who now need a stable period in supported
accommodation. One of the conditions of the bid is that services
start on 1st April 2021. To ensure that this happens we have been
in negotiation with the contract provider - Look Ahead Care and
Support - the current lower needs service at Hackney Road. The
requirements and timescales as set out by MHCLG reduce the
likelihood of a successful competitive process so for expediency we
are therefore seeking formal agreement to the Direct Award of
Contract to Look Ahead Care and Support for a four year period from
1st April 2021 – 31st March 2025.
Decision:
Pre-Decision Scrutiny Questions and officer responses were noted.
DECISION
1. To agree the direct award to Look Ahead Care and Support in order to meet the funding conditions of the MHCLG funding bid.
Action by:
CORPORATE DIRECTOR, HEALTH, ADULTS AND COMMUNITIES (D. RADLEY)
(Interim Commissioning Manager (J. Gillam)
(Strategic Commissioning Manager (M. Kaustrater)
Report author: Yasmin Ashley
Publication date: 27/11/2020
Date of decision: 25/11/2020
Decided at meeting: 25/11/2020 - Cabinet
Effective from: 05/12/2020
Accompanying Documents:
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