PCD 1429 MOPAC Delivery & Victim Services Recommissioning Support

2. Issues for consideration
   1. MOPAC has identified that it needs to bring in additional resources and technical skills to support the delivery of its victim care transformation programme and high priority recommissioning projects, as set out in section 1 above. Specifically, it has identified the need to bring in additional capabilities around user-led service design and demand and capacity and cost modelling.
   2. MOPAC has also identified corporate priorities related to increasing its commissioning capacity and capabilities. The key priorities are:
      1. a review of available procurement approaches to understand the optimum application for each key procurement route or commercial model, and the key considerations of each; and
      2. a review of performance management for commissioned services to develop proposals for a future approach.
   3. Given the overlap in the technical skills and capabilities required to deliver these pieces of work, e.g. in relation to commercial expertise, it is proposed to appoint one provider to support MOPAC to deliver this programme of work.
   4. A budget of up to £350,000 has been identified to support the victim care and recommissioning work, and budgets of £50,000 - £75,000 have been identified for each of the other two pieces of work. There is therefore a maximum budget of £500,000 available.
   5. This Decision seeks approval to publish an Invitation to Tender and undertake an open and competitive process to identify a provider and award a contract for this work, with a maximum value of up to £500,000.
   6. Subject to the Director of Commissioning and Partnerships, as the Chair of MOPAC’s Procurement, Grants and Contracts Oversight Board, receiving assurance that the process has been conducted in line with procurement regulations and MOPAC’s Contract Regulations, MOPAC shall proceed to award the contract to the successful provider following the outcome of the competition.

3. Financial Comments
   1. The maximum budget requirement for this work totals £500,000. The funding for this work will come from MOPAC’s budget resilience reserve.
   2. As the work required to support the recommissioning projects needs to be completed within the next three to six months, the DMPC is asked to approve this spend via this decision, rather than as part of the wider process to review and commit monies from the budget resilience reserve at the end of quarter one.
   3. The provider will be paid in arrears in instalments and will deliver the work in 2023 – 2024.
   4. Expenditure will be managed as part of MOPACs standard contract management processes.

4. Legal Comments
   1. MOPAC’s general powers are set out in the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (the 2011 Act). Section 3(6) of the 2011 Act provides that MOPAC must “secure the maintenance of the metropolitan police service and secure that the metropolitan police service is efficient and effective.” Under Schedule 3, paragraph 7 MOPAC has wide incidental powers to “do anything which is calculated to facilitate, or is conducive or incidental to, the exercise of the functions of the Office.” Paragraph 7(2) (a) provides that this includes entering into contracts and other agreements.
   2. Paragraph 4.13 of the MOPAC Scheme of Delegation and Consent provides that the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime (DMPC) has delegated authority to approve all requests to go out to tender for contracts of £500,000 or above. 
   3. The Mayor's Office for Policing Crime is a contracting authority as defined in the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 ("the Regulations").  All awards of public contracts for goods and/or services valued at £181,302 or above will be procured in accordance with the Regulations.

5. Commercial Issues
   1. MOPAC will undertake an open and competitive process to award a contract, subject to the appropriate assurances being given that the process has been conducted in compliance with procurement regulations and MOPAC’s Contract Regulations.

6. Public Health Approach

Not applicable

7. GDPR and Data Privacy
   1. The provider will not be commissioned to process any personally identifiable information. If over the course of the delivery, it appears necessary for the provider to process personally identifiable information then MOPAC’s Data Protection Officer will be consulted and a Data Protection Impact Assessment will be completed.

8. Equality Comments
   1. The Equality Act 2010 puts a responsibility on public authorities to have due regard to the need to eliminate discrimination and promote equality of opportunity.
   2. MOPAC is required to comply with the public sector equality duty set out in section 149(1) of the Equality Act 2010. This requires MOPAC to have due regard to the need to eliminate discrimination, advance equality of opportunity and foster good relations by reference to people with protected characteristics. The protected characteristics are: age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.

9. Background/supporting papers

Not applicable