Issue - meetings

Report of the Director of Quality and Integration seeking delegated authority from Southampton City Council to enter into a collaborative procurement process with Southampton City CCG, and with Local Authority commissioning partners in Hampshire, Portsmouth (and CCGs serving those areas) to secure sexual and reproductive health services for the City, attached.

The report of the Director of Quality and Integration was submitted seeking delegated authority from Southampton City Council to enter into a collaborative procurement process with Southampton City Clinical Commissioning Group(CCG), and with Local Authority commissioning partners in Hampshire, Portsmouth (and CCGs serving those areas) to secure sexual and reproductive health services for the City.

RESOLVED

(i)  that delegated authority be granted to the Director of Quality and Integration,  following consultation with the Director of Public Health, the Chief Executive and relevant Cabinet Member to recommission the service through a collaborative procurement, subject to the new service being deliverable within approved budgets; and

(ii)  that delegated authority be granted to the Director of Quality and Integration, after consultation with the Director of Public Health and relevant Cabinet Member and Service Director, to do anything necessary to secure the commissioning of revised arrangements for contraception and sexual health services through a collaborative procurement, up to and including entering into appropriate contract(s).