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Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust

Children Equipment and Logistics Service

HealthcareCPV 85000000
Value£297k
Awarded13 Mar 2019
Published14 Mar 2019
RegionSouth East
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£297ktotal contract value
median £380k
this tender£0£16.5m

This sits in the lower-middle of the Health & Social Care band — a mid-scale opportunity. Based on 32,734 valued Health & Social Care tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The main purpose of Children's Integrated Therapy and Equipment Service (CITES) is to provide equipment on loan to disabled children and young people living in East Sussex.

The equipment service delivers, collects, decontaminates and repairs and is also responsible for carrying out minor adaptations to the home.

The Service shall be provided in a manner that meets the principles of Best Value, including but not limited to value for money, service quality, service performance, high levels of customer care and communications and best and appropriate use of all available resources.

The main components of the Service include, but are not limited to: • Procuring where agreed, storing, delivering and the setting-up (to include specialist set-up by supplier representatives) of specific items of prescribed equipment (utilising recycled equipment where appropriate) • Administering, overseeing and quality checking any minor modifications and/or adaptations undertaken by sub-contractors • Maintaining an appropriate inventory system capable of real-time tracking of equipment • Establishing close working links with Clinicians and Prescribers in CITES and other community teams and health care establishments • Producing monthly management reports and keeping of all records To be delivered in accordance with the following four schedules that are outlined below: 1.

Storage and Logistics 2.

Minor Adaptation 3.

Maintenance and Repair 4.

Recycling (Decontamination and Refurbishment)

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The main purpose of Children's Integrated Therapy

The main purpose of Children's Integrated Therapy and Equipment Service (CITES) is to provide equipment on loan to disabled children and young people living in East Sussex.

02

The equipment service delivers, collects, decontaminates

The equipment service delivers, collects, decontaminates and repairs and is also responsible for carrying out minor adaptations to the home.

03

The Service shall be provided in

The Service shall be provided in a manner that meets the principles of Best Value, including but not limited to value for money, service quality, service performance, high levels of customer care and communications and best and appropriate use of all available resources.

04

• Maintaining an appropriate inventory system capable

• Maintaining an appropriate inventory system capable of real-time tracking of equipment.

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Source & provenance
OCID
c4b2dc71-3b74-47f1-8705-403560416a9c
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
KENTNHS001-DN367261-17155191
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