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1.To authorise officers to explore the option of transferring responsibility for the cleaning of the Councils Indoor Sheltered Housing Scheme’s back in house to the Council, and to delegate authority to a Strategic Director, in consultation with the Executive Cllr for Housing, Chair and Vice Chair of HSC and the opposition spokesperson, to make a decision on whether or not this should go ahead.
2. Following decision 1, to delegate authority to a Strategic Director, in consultation with the Executive Cllr for Housing, Chair and Vice Chair of HSC and the opposition spokesperson, to award a contract for the communal cleaning of the Councils General Housing, outdoor sheltered housing and potentially indoor sheltered housing stock, following a procurement process.
Decision type: Key
Reason Key: Expenditure > £300,000;
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Notice of proposed decision first published: 24/05/2021
Decision due: 22 Jun 2021 by Executive Councillor for Housing
Lead member: Executive Councillor for Housing
Department: Housing Services
Contact: Laura Adcock, Housing Services Manager – Supported Housing Email: Laura.Adcock@cambridge.gov.uk.
Additional Information: This is a key item and will automatically appear on the agenda.
Background Information: The City Council has a contract in place to provide cleaning services to the communal areas of of it’s housing stock. The current contract was due to expire in April 2021, but previous efforts to procure the contract were not successful in appointing a new provider, and so the current contract has recently been extended and is due to expire in March 2022. Possible benefits have been identified in transferring the responsibility for cleaning the 8 indoor sheltered housing schemes back to the City Council, and running this as an in-house service, in a similar way to the current arrangements for cleaning at Ditchburn Place. Depending on the outcome of the decision to take elements of the current contract back in house, work will then be required to procure the necessary elements of the contract, so that a new provider can be in place by April 2022.
