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Decisions published

02/04/2020 - Purchase racking for deceased people at the Temporary Resting Place at Sandy Park. ref: 870    Recommendations Approved

A temporary resting place was set up at Sandy Park to accommodate the significant additional number of deaths predicated in the Covid 19 pandemic.
Refrigerated storage units were hired, which required internal racking to be used as a resting place. Racking on which to place deceased people was purchased.

Decision Maker: Director: Legal and Democratic Services (MO & SIRO)

Decision published: 17/09/2020

Effective from: 02/04/2020

Decision:

To purchase racking for six refrigerated containers at Sandy Park Temporary Resting Place on which to place deceased people. The racking allowed each of the 40ft containers to hold 50 deceased people.

Lead officer: Yvonne Dawes


06/04/2020 - Procurement of general spend cards (AllPay) ref: 801    Recommendations Approved

A decision was made to increase and find an additional and alternative method to awarding LCPF Emergency Payments to assist more families in food/fuel poverty. A direct award was made to AllPay following soft market testing, as this solution had historically been used by LCPF and seen as the quickest to implement and best value for money.

Decision Maker: Executive Director: Resources

Decision published: 15/06/2020

Effective from: 06/04/2020

Decision:

Following the outbreak of COVID 19 there has been increased pressure on the Council’s Local Crisis and Prevention Fund (LCPF) for Emergency Payments. Additional funding from central government has been used to bolster this scheme to assist low income families in emergency need, by awarding universal spend cards.

Lead officer: Sarah Wilson


06/04/2020 - Procurement of supermarket spend cards (Tesco) ref: 800    Recommendations Approved

A decision was made to increase the use of the existing LCPF award payment solution (Tesco supermarket vouchers) to be able to assist more families and to possible greater extent and increase their contract value.

Decision Maker: Executive Director: Resources

Decision published: 15/06/2020

Effective from: 06/04/2020

Decision:

Following the outbreak of COVID 19 there has been increased pressure on the Council’s Local Crisis and Prevention Fund (LCPF) for Emergency Payments. Additional funding from central government has been used to bolster this scheme to assist low income families in emergency need with relation to food poverty by awarding supermarket vouchers.

Lead officer: Sarah Wilson


31/03/2020 - A grant for Connecting Southmead to continue with the pilot of a community development approach to supporting vulnerable adults diverted from Adult Care who would otherwise require support under the Care Act ref: 797    Recommendations Approved

The grant will enable Southmead Connect to continue to work with people referred from the local Adult Social Care Team using an approach called ‘Combining Personalisation and Community Empowerment’ (CPCE). This involves delivering more tailored support for people through a combination of individual support and “life planning” and the engagement of people with support needs and the wider community in community volunteering to develop provision. As well as meeting the needs of the individuals referred this approach will help develop support in Southmead that other vulnerable or older people can use, helping people remain independent, contribute to their community and enjoy health and wellbeing.
Adult Care have been working in partnership with Southmead Connect to develop CPCE. This approach has been taken in other areas successfully. This continuation of the pilot grant will enable Adult Care to continue to work with Connecting Southmead to share learning on what works, and what is an appropriate way to formally commission and pay for CPCE projects. At the end of the pilot, if successful, there will be opportunities for lead organisations in other areas to bid to run similar projects.
This is the continuation of a service that will support people with care and support needs living in the North of the City – making use of community volunteers and will be a key part of ASC response to Covid- 19.

Decision Maker: Director: Adult Social Care

Decision published: 15/06/2020

Effective from: 31/03/2020

Decision:

To grant of £120k over 12 months from Bristol City Council Adult Care to Connecting Southmead to enable them to continue with the pilot of a community development approach to supporting vulnerable adults diverted from Adult Care who would otherwise require support under the Care Act

Lead officer: Terry Dafter


05/03/2020 - Motor Insurance Tender Award 2020 ref: 768    Recommendations Approved

BCC and BWCL Motor insurance was last tendered in April 2017 as a combined package. The current period of insurance expires on 31st March 2020.
The compliant tender for BCC and BWC as per the Public Contract Regulations enabled the opportunity to test the market for value for money (VfM) and for Social Value purposes on the existing basis i.e. combined cover for BCC

Decision Maker: Executive Director: Resources

Decision published: 06/04/2020

Effective from: 05/03/2020

Decision:

Approval was sought from Cabinet on 1 October 2019 to invite competitive tenders for the Bristol City Council (BCC) and Bristol Waste Company Ltd (BWCL) Motor insurance for a three year period or for a three year period renewable for a further two years at the Council’s option, from 1 April 2020 in accordance with the Contracts Procedure Rules.
The decision was to award the combined BCC and BWCL Lot 3 Motor Insurance following a full Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) Contract Notice reference number 2019/S 231-566598 dated 29 November 2019 in line with BCC’s procurement strategy.

Lead officer: Francesca Barclay