Market test - Imaging Equipment - Managed Equipment Service (MES)

Suppliers are invited to declare interest in coming and presenting the following to Lancashire Teaching Hospital's: To provide a Managed Equipment Service (MES)solution in partnership with Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust on Imaging equipment. Currently Lancashire Teaching Hospitals have a range of imaging Equipment. Ranging from MRI's, CT's, Ultrasound machines, C-Arms, Gamma Cameras, Interventional Suites, mobile X-ray, x ray systems, fluoroscopy systems. In total we have in excess of seventy of medical equipment, across two sites - Royal Preston Hospital and Chorley and South Ribble District Hospital. If you can please outline your capabilities, and scope out how you would propose to manage such a service. Please consider the following when replying: · A structured equipment replacement programme with agreed timescales. · The term of the proposed MES. · Flexible approach to equipment purchase in consideration of clinical strategy and technological advances. · Performance assessed project management. · Agreed equipment uptime targets. · Cost savings on procurement of new equipment · What performance guarantees do you provide? · Transfer of responsibility for assets that will transfer from LTH. · Transfer of risks - eg. damage to equipment, insolvency. · How do you enhance patient care, and how will you in the future? · What efficiency benefits can you deliver - both financial and also clinical? · How would you manage any building projects as part of this MES? · Consumables spend - How would you look to manage this spend? · How would you audit and assess existing medical equipment? · What is your approach to risk management? · How would you keep pace with technology? If you can please respond if you are interested in coming to talk through a Managed Equipment Service (MES)solution with ourselves.

Additional information: Suppliers are invited to a pre-market test including an opportunity to present the following to Lancashire Teaching Hospital's: To provide a Managed Equipment Service (MES)solution in partnership with Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust on Imaging equipment. Currently Lancashire Teaching Hospitals have a range of imaging Equipment. Ranging from MRI's, CT's, Ultrasound machines, C-Arms, Gamma Cameras, Interventional Suites, mobile X-ray, x ray systems, fluoroscopy systems. In total we have in excess of seventy of medical equipment, across two sites - Royal Preston Hospital and Chorley and South Ribble District Hospital. If you can please outline your capabilities, and scope out how you would propose to manage such a service. Please consider the following when replying: A structured equipment replacement programme with agreed timescales. The term of the proposed MES. Flexible approach to equipment purchase in consideration of clinical strategy and technological advances. Performance assessed project management. Agreed equipment uptime targets. Cost savings on procurement of new equipment What performance guarantees do you provide? Transfer of responsibility for assets that will transfer from LTH. Transfer of risks - eg. damage to equipment, insolvency. How do you enhance patient care, and how will you in the future? What efficiency benefits can you deliver - both financial and also clinical? How would you manage any building projects as part of this MES? Consumables spend - How would you look to manage this spend? How would you audit and assess existing medical equipment? What is your approach to risk management? How would you keep pace with technology? If you can please respond by giving us details of where you have supplied a similar service to a hospital/Trust. Please also include case studies, and any other information that you feel is relevant.