Provision of a Buckinghamshire Integrated Community Equipment Service

Buckinghamshire Council (acting as the Lead Authority), in partnership with Buckinghamshire Clinical Commissioning Group is seeking tenders from suitably experienced and qualified organisations for the provision of a Buckinghamshire Integrated Community Equipment Services (BICES) through the appointment of a single provider delivering those services as required under a framework arrangement.

The framework will be accessible to contracting authorities that fall under the NUTS code UKJ1 (Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Milton Keynes). The current contract between Buckinghamshire Council and the incumbent provider ends on 19th June 2022 and the Councils intention is to call off from the single provider framework as from 20th June 2022. Call-off terms will be for 5 years with an option to extend for up to two further years.

No work or volume is guaranteed under the framework agreement, and any participating authority wishing to utilise the framework will enter into a separate call off with the successful provider.

The service will consist of the the timely provision of:

• An Integrated Community Equipment Service (Simple Aids to Daily Living/Complex Aids to Daily Living/Non-catalogue and bespoke items)
• Domestic Lift Maintenance
• Technology Enabled Care (including Monitoring and Response elements)
• Long Term Wheelchair Product Provision and Repair
• Continence Product Provision
• Diagnostic Equipment Provision
• Long Term Conditions Management Service
• Major Adaptations
• Clinician Support Services