NHS Herefordshire CCG Wheelchair Repair & Maintenance Service

NHS Midlands & Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit, on behalf of NHS Herefordshire CCG is seeking to commission a Contractor to deliver the above Service to Service Users, across a number of the service delivery locations, including at Service Users' usual place of residence and work, schools, day-centres and community hospitals, covering one or a combination of the following Services:

• delivery and collection service • storage and stockholding service • repair service • decontamination service • reconditioning service • planned preventative maintenance service (powered wheelchairs and power packs only). (The purchase of all new wheelchairs is excluded from this proposed contract.)

Wye Valley NHS Trust operates a Wheelchair Service to provide wheelchair services to children and adults who are registered with a Herefordshire GP ("Service Users"). Herefordshire CCG wishes to hear from providers who may be interested in delivering this Wheelchairs Maintenance & Repair Service. Interested providers must be able to provide services within the Herefordshire community.

The CCG is intending to award one contact. The contract term will be for 5 years, plus an optional extension of a further 2 years. The proposed value of the contract is approximately between £750,000 and £790,000 (excluding VAT) for the 5 year contract term, although this may be subject to change following agreement of the final service specification.

Bidders are asked to be aware of the Personal Health Programme which may impact upon the Service.

This procurement is for clinical services which are Light Touch Regime services for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations ("Regulations"). Accordingly, the contracting authorities are only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7. The contracting authorities are not voluntarily following any other part of the Regulations. The procedure which the contracting authorities are following is set out in the MOI. As the CCG is a relevant body for the purpose of the National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No 2) Regulations 2013 these Regulations also apply to this procurement.

Additional information: Interested providers are guided to the MLCSU eProcurement portal Bravo at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk. to gain access to this procurement's documents and more specific information.

To register on the portal: If your organisation has registered previously, you do not need to re-register. 1) Register on the portal webpage at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk (registration and use of the website is free of charge). 2) Once registered, candidates must Express their Interest by: a) logging into the MLCSU eTendering Bravo portal b) selecting response to ITT, c) select Open Access ITT, d) search for and access listing related to this contract (search for reference number itt_495) and view details.

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