Decision details

A decision is sought to request approval for an exemption from the Contract Procedure Rules to make a direct award.
Under this exemption, this report is seeking agreement for a contract to be awarded to Oasis Community Learning Limited through Oasis Academy Limeside (Oasis Innovation) to deliver the Making it REAL (Raising, Achievement in Early Literacy) Project from September 2022 until August 2023.

This report seeks approval to commission Oasis Community Learning Limited through Oasis Academy Limeside (Oasis Innovation) to deliver the Making it REAL Programme for a 1-year contract with an option to extend for a further year

Option A: Approve an exemption under rule 21.3 (e) of the Contract Procedure Rules and directly award a contract to Oasis Community Learning Limited through Oasis Academy Limeside (Oasis Innovation) for the delivery of the Making it REAL project.
This option poses limited risk to the Council as the commissioned organisation has successfully delivered the MIR programme as part of the OA for the past 5 years and have specialist trained trainers to deliver the programme.
Option B: Not award the contract to Oasis Academy and go obtain a minimum of 3 quotes
Changing the commissioned provider would have impact on the continuity of the successful Making it REAL project, previous investment from OA to develop this programme and trained trainers from this provider would be lost. Impact to relationships.

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