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ClosedStage · preprocurement

Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)

Community Automated External Defibrillators Fund (Grant Administration)

Government ServicesCPV 75100000 33182100
Value£80k
Deadline10 Mar 2023
Published20 Feb 2023
RegionLondon
Timeline
Published 20 Feb 2023ClosedCloses 10 Mar 2023
Contract value in context
£80ktotal contract value
median £400k
this tender£0£22.3m

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The brief

**Response window extended to 12pm Friday 10th March 2023** The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is looking to appoint a supplier to manage the grant administration process for the Community Automated External Defibrillator (AED) Fund.

The fund aims to support the purchase of public access AED's by distributing funding to local communities across England through one off grants.

Intended contract term: 12 months.

Fund value: £1m Estimated contract value (including extensions): £80,000 excl. of VAT The DHSC is issuing this early engagement to seek information and feedback from the market to gain better understanding of the specification, costing model and appetite for this project.

For avoidance of doubt this is not a call for competition, the purpose is to advise the market on the forthcoming DHSC procurement and seek feedback from the market that may inform the final specification and/or procurement approach to the services.

This market engagement process does not form part of the formal procurement process.

When the formal procurement process commences all supplier bids will be evaluated on the same basis.

A Market Engagement Questionnaire and draft Specification is attached to this notice.

Please complete the questionnaire and return via email to ccsinbox@dhsc.gov.uk quoting 'Community AED Fund'.

The deadline to submit the questionnaire is no later than 5pm on Friday 3rd March 2023. **This has now been extended to 12pm Friday 10th March 2023** The future procurement will be run using the Atamis eTendering System.

Please select this link to access and register your organisation to the Atamis system https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome, if you have not already done so.

This Market Engagement Questionnaire is not available in Atamis but suppliers are advised to register on this portal in anticipation of the future procurement.

Questionnaire - https://atamis-1928.cloudforce.com/sfc/p/0O000000rwim/a/8d000001QXDx/UrrI8a.QKBNF8.XJovLph4wptFIzTt93ErqKOFD.zsg Specification - https://atamis-1928.cloudforce.com/sfc/p/0O000000rwim/a/8d000001QXDn/2SvThBK8wUtcgFwX4wLLzyobAkyuR1P233T1QkmtiBk

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The fund aims to support the purchase

The fund aims to support the purchase of public access AED's by distributing funding to local communities across England through one off grants.

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