Free School Meal Vouchers - Summer Holiday

Concepts

• health and social work
• coventry
• dwp
• summer holiday
• free school meal vouchers
• school summer holiday period
• fsm vouchers
• time vouchers
• june 20th
• published timescales of the grant

Location

Coventry:

Description

On June 20th, 2021 the LGS formally ended in-line with the published timescales of the grant, however on June 22nd the DWP announced a late extension of the LGS to September 30th, 2021. The extension period covered the school summer holiday period in July/Aug which the DWP acknowledged would be LA's focus for the majority of the funding. Unfortunately, the very late notice of extension meant that there was not sufficient time to carry out a procurement exercise by time vouchers needed to be issued. Coventry schools already had existing arrangements in place to engage with the Wonde process, a decision was made to award in accordance with Reg32.

Total Quantity or Scope

COVID Local Grant Scheme Extension (LGS) to fund FSM vouchers for eligible pupils across Coventry

Award Detail

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 85000000 - Health and social work services

Legal Justification

COVID Local Grant Scheme (LGS) funding has being used to provide food vouchers during the school holidays to school age children who were eligible for Free School Meals (FSM). On June 20th, 2021 the LGS formally ended in-line with the published timescales of the grant, however on June 22nd the DWP announced a late extension of the LGS to September 30th, 2021. The extension period (and additional £1.2M allocation) covered the school summer holiday period in July/Aug which the DWP acknowledged would be LA's focus for the majority of the funding. Unfortunately, the very late notice of extension meant that there was not sufficient time to carry out a procurement exercise by time vouchers needed to be issued only 3 weeks later.

Other Information

** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. ** Awarded in accordance with Reg 32 - Use of the negotiated procedure without prior publication