Purpose

A Transformation Project was approved in
December 2022 to review the Council’s Community Equipment
Service (CES).  The review recommends
that the Council should no longer deliver this service and
establish an employee owned mutual and procure a business partner
to have a minority interest on the organisation.
Recommendation is to approve commencing a procurement
process for a business partner to have a minority stake in an
employee owned mutual company with
CES.
 

Content

RESOLVED: To
 

1.    
Approve the strategy set out in this report which will lead to the
procurement of a contract with a delivery partner for the provision
of the CES through the delivery vehicle of an employee owned mutual
(as further detailed in this report) over a term of seven years
with the option to extend for a further three years for an
estimated contract value to the Council of £42,971,673.

 

2.    
Note that the contract value stated above excludes the value of the
CES provided under existing contracts held by the Council with
other local authorities (including an inter-authority collaboration
agreement for the Provision and Maintenance of a Community
Equipment Shared Service Framework hosted by the Council, an update
to which is being progressed for delegated approval.) Such
contractual arrangements will in future be fulfilled via the
contract to be procured pursuant to this strategy;
 

3.    
Note that the strategy includes the potential for transfer and/or
disposal of certain service-related Council assets and that prior
to any transfer taking place any necessary governance approval will
be sought.
 

4.    
Note that a draw-down from the transformation project budget
totalling £234k is required to deliver the project.
 

Reasons for the decision

As set out in Part A of
report

Alternative options considered

As set out in Part A of
report