Issue - decisions

The Executive considered a proposal to enter into a collaborative procurement process for sexual health services with Tameside and Trafford councils to enable efficiencies/savings in the whole sexual health system across this area and agreed that

·                authorisation be given to jointly procure an Integrated Service with Tameside and Trafford councils;

·                the Director of Public Health be authorised to award the contract on behalf of Stockport Council as part of the joint procurement and to do all things necessary or incidental to the award of the contract;

·                an exemption to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (to facilitate alignment of contracts for the joint procurement exercise) to enable the holding over of the current Sexual Health Service contract provided by Stockport NHS Foundation Trust having been agreed to enable an extension of the existing contract from 1 April 2016 until the 15 September 2016 be noted.

(Note: this report contains information ‘not for publication’ in its appendix and this has been circulated to executive councillors only)