NHS Herefordshire CCG Wheelchairs Repair and Maintenance Service

This is a prior information notice with call for future competition for provision of NHS Herefordshire CCG's Wheelchairs Maintenance & Repair Service. The Wye Valley NHS Trust operates a Wheelchair Service Assessment & Prescription Service to provide wheelchair services to children and adults who are registered with a Herefordshire GP and the CCG is seeking to commission a Contractor to deliver a Maintenance & Repair Service 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:

The purchase of all new wheelchairs is excluded from this proposed contract.

Herefordshire CCG wishes to hear from providers who may be interested in delivering this Service. Interested providers must be able to provide services within the Herefordshire community.

The contract term will be for 5 years plus an optional extension of a further 2 years. The initial contact term value is £590k - £605k.

IMPORTANT: To express an interest, providers must include an A4 page to explain the organisation's experience in Wheelchair Maintenance & Repairs Services in the last 3 years.

If you wish to register an Expression of Interest for this proposed procurement please respond before 1700 hours on 14th August, 2017 via https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.shtml. Please see Section 6 for Bravo log-in details & draft Service Spec.

NB: this is not a formal procurement advertisement. Any Expressions of Interest will not automatically entitle involvement in any future procurement exercise. Any procurement conducted as a result of this notice will be advertised separately and all organisations wishing to participate shall need to respond to the procurement advertisement as and when it is published. Please note that the proposed date for approach to market is a guideline only and may be subject to change. Any future procurement opportunity will be published within Contracts Finder and OJEU, and Invitations to Tender will be requested via the Bravo Solutions portal.

"Light Touch Regime" services: This service is classified as clinical which comes under the Light Touch Regime services for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations ("Regulations"). The contracting authorities are not voluntarily following any other part of the Regulations. 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.

All dates, time periods and values specified in this notice are provisional.

Additional information: Step by step Instruction for Suppliers wishing to use BravoSolution

We use an e-tendering portal called BravoSolutions (short Bravo) to manage all tenders. If you wish to register your interest in a tender, you will need to follow these steps:

Step 1 - Register your company on the BravoSolution e-Tendering portal (this is only required once):

1. Go to https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.shtml
1. Click on the Click Here to register link
1. Enter your organisation details in the form Registration Data and click Save
1. Continue to enter your details in the form: Basic Profile Form: Basic Form - Company Details. Click Save
1. You will receive an email from BravoSolutions with your user ID and another email with your temporary password
1. Go back to the Bravo login page and login with your new details
1. Accept the terms and conditions by clicking I agree and then Next
1. On the next screen you will be asked to specify a new password (for security reasons)
1. You are now registered and ready to use the portal.

Step 2 - Express an Interest in the future tender opportunity:

2. Login to the portal with your username and password
2. Click the PQQs / ITTs Open To All Suppliers box on the main dashboard and select PQQ. The name and codes of the current future tender opportunity is :

PQQ Code: pqq_422

PQQ Title: Expression of Interest for Provision of NHS Herefordshire Clinical Commissioning Group's Wheelchairs Maintenance & Repair Service.

Need assistance? Please contact Bravo's eSourcing helpdesk: 0800 069 8630, or email help@bravosolution.co.uk