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Salford City Council – Record of
Decision
 
I Councillor Youd, Lead Member
for Finance and Support Services and chairman of the Procurement
Board, accept the recommendation of the Procurement Board and in
exercise of the powers contained within the Council Constitution do
hereby approve:
 
·    
an exception to Contractual Standing Orders as
permitted within the City Council Constitution for the reasons
highlighted in the table below and award the Contract for Domestic
Abuse – Additional Staff for housing support, as detailed in
the table below:
 

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Title/Description of Contracted
Service/Supply/Project

Domestic Abuse - Additional Staff for housing
support

Procurement Reference Number (DN and
CR, supplied by Procurement)

 
DN558827
 

Name of Successful
Contractor

Safe In Salford

Supplier Registration Number

(to be supplied by
Procurement)

2472369

Proclass
Classification No.

(to be completed by
procurement)

 

Type of organisation

(to be supplied by
Procurement)

Registered Charity

Status of Organisation

(to be supplied by  Procurement)

SME

Contract Value (£)

£221,318 Additional staff to support housing
strategy
£46,974 Resettlement high needs support
inclusive of uplift per annum

Total Contract Value including extensions
(£)

£268,292 Total project

Contract Duration

12 months

Contract Start Date

01/04/2025

Contract End Date

31/03/2026

Optional Extension Period 1

months

Optional Extension Period 2

months

Who will approve each Extension
Period?

Procurement Board (extension >
£150k)

Contact Officer (Name &
number)

Jennifer Cawdron Children Commissioning
Julie Craik Housing Strategy and
Homelessness

Lead Service Group

Children's Services

Reason for CSO Exception: The goods / services /
works are only obtainable from one provider and there is no other
provider available to allow genuine competition

Tick if it applies ?

Reason for CSO Exception: The execution of works or
the supply of goods or services is controlled by a statutory
body

Tick if it applies ?

Reason for CSO Exception: Delivers Best Value to the
Council

Tick if it applies ?

Reason for CSO Exception: Special education, health
or social care contracts, if it is considered in the
Council’s best interests and to meet the
Council’s obligations under relevant legislation

Tick if it applies ?

Reason for CSO Exception: The execution of works or
the supply of goods and services is required so urgently as not to
permit compliance with the requirements of competition

Tick if it applies ?

Reason for CSO Exception: Security works where the
publication of documents or details in the tendering process could
prejudice the security of SCC and Salford residents

Tick if it applies ?

Reason for CSO Exception: Procurements made through,
or on behalf of, any consortium, local authority, statutory or
similar body, provided that tenders or quotations are invited and
contracts placed in accordance with national or EU
legislation.

Tick if it applies ?

Funding Source

Grant

Ethical Contractor (EC): Mayor’s
Employment Charter

Yes
 

EC: Committed to sign up to the
Mayor’s Employment Charter

Yes
 

EC: Committed to the principles outlined
in the Mayor’s Employment charter

Yes
 

EC: Accredited Living Wage
Employer

Yes
 

EC: Committed to becoming Accredited
Living Wage Employer

Choose an item.
 

 
 
The reasons are:
Considering the existing
contract with Salford Foundation and partners to provide an
integrated domestic abuse service, this additional specialist
support is best delivered as part of the existing service via a
contract variation. Housing is a generic need of most domestic
abuse clients. It therefore makes sense to build additional
capacity holistically to the whole model, rather than creating
bespoke domestic abuse housing posts.
 
Options considered and rejected were:
Open market tender process was
rejected due to time constraints on the grant funding, costs were
ringfenced to staffing only, and to be additional capacity within
the existing service.
 
Assessment of risk:
Without this grant being
awarded Salford we not meet our legislative requirements and
vulnerable victims of domestic abuse could suffer.
 
The source of funding is:
Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government.
 
Legal advice obtained:
Salford City Council has been awarded £221,318 to deliver
specialist IDVA (independent domestic violence advisor) from
Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (ring
fenced) grant funding for the 2025-2026 Financial Year.
 
Salford City Council will ensure that its allocation of this
grant funding to Salford Foundation is made in accordance with all
relevant legislation (including, where applicable, the Public
Contracts Regulations 2015 and the Subsidy Control Act 2022), and
in accordance with Salford City Council’s Constitution
(including Salford City Council’s Contractual Standing
Orders).
 
It is an established principle that an existing
public contract is capable of being varied or modified providing
any modification does not affect the overall nature of the
contract. The Public Contract Regulations 2015 allow for
modifications to be made to existing contracts without requiring
further procurement exercise. Such modification (here a variation
to the amount of funding payable by SCC for provision of services,
and adding specialist service provision) may be made where the
following cumulative conditions are fulfilled:
 

Reg 72 (1)(b) for additional works,
services or supplies by the original contractor that have become
necessary and were not included in the original procurement where a
change of contractor:

a. 
cannot be made for economic or
technical reasons such as interchangeability or interoperability
with existing services; and

b. 
would cause significant
inconvenience or substantial duplication of costs for the
contracting authority, provided that any increase in price does not
exceed 50% of the value of the original contract.
Or in any event where the variation (irrespective of
its value) is not considered substantial.
 
The information in
the report suggests that Regulation 72 can be relied upon here on
the basis that the proposed scope and value does not appear to
amount to a substantial variation which exceeds 50% of the original
contract value. Shared Legal Services would be happy to support
with any documentation in respect of the funding or addressing the
variation to the existing services agreement, which will set out
the additional funding and the purpose which it is being made
available for.
 
Financial advice obtained: Grant Funding Department of Ministry of Housing,
Communities & Local Government.
 
Procurement advice obtained: Yes.
 
HR advice obtained: N/A.
 
Climate change implications obtained: N/A.
 
Documents used:
·    
Domestic Abuse Safe Accommodation Strategy 2022 to
2026, Salford City Council.
·    

Salford Domestic Abuse Commissioning
Strategy•Salford City
Council
·    
Salford’s commissioning plan to receive this
funding for 2024/25, by the Domestic Abuse Housing Advisory Group
(a statutory group), which was approved by Cabinet on 23 January
2024.
 
Contact details:
Contact Officer: Jennifer Cawdron.
 
Please delete from the bullets
below any which are not relevant:
·    
The Lead Member has been consulted and is supportive
of the proposed contract.
 
 

Signed:     Cllr J
Youd        Dated:    10 November 2025.
         
    Lead Member
 

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This decision was published on
11 November 2025
This decision will come in force
at 4pm on 18 November 2025
unless it is called-in in accordance with the Decision Making
Process Rules.