Purpose

A decision taken on agreements
between Lancashire Child and Youth Justice Service (CYJS) and
Lancashire South Cumbria Foundation Trust (LSCFT) and Blackpool
Teaching Hospitals (BTH) for the provision of speech and language
support.
 
Lancashire Child and
Youth Justice Service (CYJS) is a multi-agency partnership
incorporating statutory partners from the Local Authority
(including education), police, health, and probation. As part of
this, CYJS procure the services of Speech and Language Therapists,
contracted for a set number of hours, to provide expedient pathways
into speech and language support for children open to the
service.
 
A decision has been taken, following advice from
procurement and commissioning services in LCC, to procure a
directly awarded purchase order with two providers: Lancashire
South Cumbria Foundation Trust (LSCFT – for the South Central
and East areas of Lancashire) and Blackpool Teaching Hospitals (BTH
– for the North areas of Lancashire).
 
This decision was taken due
to:
· 
Current service operating well
· 
It is a specialist health service with
interconnection with other related health services.
· 
Low value
· 
Few/if any suppliers in the market
· 
Ongoing review which could cause potential
disruption to current provision.
· 
Would be a short-term contract resulting in
potential lower attraction to wider market.
· 
Possibility of a break in service between the
contract end date at present and the time taken to continue with a
3-quote process, potential to be detrimental to delivery of
services.
 

Content

Louise Anderson, Director of
Children's Social Care, took the decision to approve the
agreement for services to be procured by way of a
directly awarded purchase order.