Report ACH19019

The Council currently provided support to the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise Sector in Bromley via two separate contracts - “Support to the Voluntary Sector”, a contract with Community Links Bromley, and “Support to the Sector”, part of the Primary and Secondary Intervention Services (Bromley Well) contract delivered by Bromley Third Sector Enterprise. The report set out the commissioning options and proposed that the contracts be combined as from October 2020.    

The report had been scrutinised by the Adult Care and Health PDS Committee on 19^th November 2019, and the Committee had supported the recommendations.

RESOLVED that proceeding to procurement be approved as detailed in paragraph 4.2.1 and section 6 of the report for a new Support to the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise Sector in Bromley contract for a period of five years from 1^st October 2020 to 30^th September 2025, with an option to extend for a further two years at an estimated cost of £160k pa (whole life value of £1.12m.)