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There was submitted a report by the Director of Scotland Excel relative to progress against the 2019/20 contract delivery plan.
The report intimated that the contract delivery plan comprised framework renewals, new developments, framework extensions and frameworks with ongoing contract management only and Appendices 1 to 3 to the report provided further details.
The report highlighted that contract delivery remained active with 68 current frameworks in the Scotland Excel contract portfolio, 11 of which were to be renewed before 31 March 2020; a further 11 new frameworks would be added to the contract portfolio by 31 March 2020; and a further 19 frameworks on the current portfolio had extension options that were likely to be exercised in 2019/20, seven of which had already been approved.
The report advised that the estimated forecast value of the Scotland Excel framework portfolio by 31 March 2020 would be approximately £1.9 billion.
It was noted that overall, efficiencies delivered to date were 1.0% which was below the 2% to 4% forecast savings range. This figure was based on a single contract delivered in 2019/20.
Scotland Excel was exploring the benefits of further collaborative procurement across high spend, critical service areas of adult social care and construction; had finalised the procurement strategy for care and support services; would continue to work with a range of partners to implement the procurement strategy; would continue to work with key stakeholders to deliver a new sourcing strategy for care home services for older people; had taken over operational contract management of care home services for older people from CoSLA on 1 April 2019; would continue work in conjunction with the Digital Office to procure a replacement Social Work Case Management system.
The first-generation new build residential construction framework was progressing well and the second stage of the two-stage tender procedure had been issued in March 2019 and remained on course for going live in September 2019.
There was a plan to create a framework to replace the expired online school payments framework with enhanced content to cover cashless catering and include peripherals such as ordering hardware, biometric recognition and enhanced reporting functionality.
DECIDED: That the progress made to date be noted.