Decision details

The Cabinet Member:

1.    Authorised contract extension to the corporate frameworks for the provision of social care roles to the following agency worker providers: 

Lot 1: Social Care Specialists 

Kent County Trading Limited (Trading As Connect2Staff) 

Sanctuary Personnel Limited 

HCL Social Care Limited 

Eden Brown Limited (Trading As Eden Brown Synergy) 

Liquid Personnel 

Badenoch and Clark 

iPeople Solutions Limited 

Maxxima Limited 

Lot 2: Children’s Residential Workers 

BS Social Care 

Lot 3 Social Care Specialists and Children’s Residential Workers 

Cardea Resourcing Limited 

Caritas Recruitment Limited 

Service  Care Solutions Limited 

Medacs Healthcare Plc 

The extension shall be for a period up to 31 March 2021 at a cost of approximately £320,000 per month.

2.    Authorised contract extension to Reed via call-off from MSTAR framework for the provision of all non-social care agency roles. The contract extension shall be for a period up to 31 March 2021 at a cost of approximately £110,000 per month.

Whilst the Council’s annual spend on temporary agency workers, both social care and non-social care has reduced since 2016, there is still a requirement for provision of a temporary agency worker solution within both social care and non-social care roles.   Due to a number of factors, including the Council’s reduced spend on temporary agency workers, and increased shared working with Cambridgeshire County Council, the Council has been exploring the most effective way of supplying agency workers to the Council in the long term.  In the interim, the most effective solution is to extend those frameworks and call-off contracts to ensure continuity of service provision whilst the long term solution is procured and mobilised.   

Alternative options included consideration of an open procurement, OPUS People Solutions and ESPO MyStar3 Framework.  Whilst these options are viable long term options they were dismissed as a short term solution. The Council will continue to explore all long term viable options to ensure a compliant, robust, efficient and cost effective model is in place with effect from 1 April 2021, that is suitable for the future requirements of the Council. 

To do nothing was not an option in this case.

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