Social and other specific services – public contracts
Contract notice
Section I: Contracting
authority
I.1) Name and addresses
Bridgend County Borough Council
Bridgend County Borough Council, Procurement Unit, Civic Offices, Angel Street
Bridgend
CF31 4WB
UK
Telephone: +44 1656643643
E-mail: tenders@bridgend.gov.uk
NUTS: UKL17
Internet address(es)
Main address: http://www.bridgend.gov.uk
Address of the buyer profile: https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA0417
I.2) Joint procurement
The contract is awarded by a central purchasing body
I.3) Communication
Additional information can be obtained from the abovementioned address
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent electronically to:
https://etenderwales.bravosolution.co.uk/
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Regional or local authority
I.5) Main activity
Other: Social Care
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
The Provision of a Tec/Telecare Equipment Installations, Maintenance and Removals Service
Reference number: B601/22
II.1.2) Main CPV code
85000000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
Bridgend County Borough Council is commissioning a Telecare/Technology Enabled Care (TEC) Equipment Installations, Maintenance and Removals Service for eligible Individuals within Bridgend unitary authority area to support individuals to continue to lead fulfilled lives and live independently within Bridgend unitary authority.
II.1.5) Estimated total value
Value excluding VAT:
960 000.00
GBP
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.2) Description
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
85300000
35121700
79711000
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKL17
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
Bridgend County Borough Council is commissioning a Telecare/Technology Enabled Care (TEC) Equipment Installations, Maintenance and Removals Service for eligible Individuals within Bridgend unitary authority area to support individuals to continue to lead fulfilled lives and live independently within Bridgend unitary authority.
Bridgend County Borough Council in partnership with the Health Board consider telecare/technology enabled care equipment and similar assistive technologies as a key aspect of its prevention and wellbeing strategy and will continue to play a central role in helping strengthen support for those individuals wishing to live more independently. In order to support this agenda, the Council, working in partnership with the Health Board, have increasingly invested in assistive technologies (and associated services) so that it may strengthen choice, control and independence of people living in the borough. The Service is considered central to this ongoing agenda and remains central to the success of the Council and the Health Board’s prevention and wellbeing strategy which encompasses independent living in the borough.
Bridgend County Borough Council are committed to securing quality provision and wishes to appoint one provider that can demonstrate they have the proven experience of installing, maintaining and removing Telecare/TEC equipment to and from the homes of people with social care or health support needs. The successful organisation will have staff that include certified Trusted Assessors. The Trusted Assessor role is vital to the success of this Service in the provision of assessing people appropriately for Telecare/TEC Equipment.
During the Agreement Period of this Service, the Council will be updating to utilise digital Telecare/TEC Equipment and also utilise a digital network connection in the homes of individuals under this service, and, should the Council require, the successful provider will be instructed to undertake a replacement programme for the Telecare/TEC Equipment and connections installed in the homes of individual’s in Bridgend as described in the specification.
The successful provider will also have adequately demonstrated they have the skills, experience and understanding of undertaking this work in a social care environment, and in particular to people who may be regarded as vulnerable, including older people and people with complex needs.
The Agreement will be for a period of 3 years from the Commencement Date, with an option to extend up to a further 36 months should the Council wish to exercise this option.
The contract is expected to commence during November 2022.
II.2.6) Estimated value
Value excluding VAT:
960 000.00
GBP
II.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
Start:
29/11/2022
End:
28/11/2028
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
No
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description
IV.1.1) Type of procedure
Open procedure
IV.2) Administrative information
IV.2.2) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
Date:
05/08/2022
Local time: 12:00
IV.2.4) Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted
EN
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.3) Additional information
Please refer to tender documentation.
NOTE: The authority is using eTenderwales to carry out this procurement process. To obtain further information record your interest on Sell2Wales at http://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/search_switch.aspx?ID=122641
(WA Ref:122641)
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
High Court
Royal Courts of Justice, The Strand
London
WC2A 2LL
UK
Telephone: +44 2079477501
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
06/07/2022