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Contract Award for ‘Greenacres Redevelopment’

Decision Maker: Assistant Director of Procurement

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Purpose:

Transforming Care is the national programme to reduce dependence on specialist inpatient beds for people with a learning disability and/or autism with behaviour that challenges. East Sussex County Council (ESCC) is part of the Sussex Transforming Care Partnership (TCP) along with all local authorities and Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in Sussex.
The proposal is to develop a site in South Chailey that will soon be vacated, to provide supported living services, in self-contained flats, for six people who have a learning disability and complex challenging behaviours plus a four bed respite service for people from the same cohort.

4 out of 6 contractors on lot 2 of the framework submitted expressions of interest and all 4 submitted bids for the contract.

Sunninghill Construction Co received the best overall score in the tender evaluation and was ultimately awarded the contract.

Decision:

It was decided that this contract should be awarded to Sunninghill Construction Co via the Orbis Construction Framework (Option one) as theirs was the most economically advantageous tender.

Alternative options considered:

Option 2: Restricted tender

This option will greatly extend the timeframe of getting a supplier in place, around 4-6 months. It will not meet the previously stated objectives of working with a core set of contractors aligned to Orbis and ESCC objectives around supply chain management, partnership working and social and added value.

Option 3: Do nothing

The project will not go ahead and ESCC will not be able to meet its targets by March 2019.

Publication date: 18/02/2019

Date of decision: 23/01/2019