Integrated Community Equipment Loan Service (ICELS)

Concepts

• integrated community equipment loan service
• integrated community equipment service
• health and social work
• doncaster
• lead commissioner
• doncaster clinical commissioning group
• icels
• medical equipment
• service users
• icels service

Location

Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham: City of Doncaster

Description

The Authority acting as the Lead Commissioner is seeking to jointly re-commission the Integrated Community Equipment Service for itself and the Doncaster Clinical Commissioning Group. The ICELS service will support the following aims • Enabling people to be supported in their own homes • Reducing the number of hospital admissions and re-admissions • Reducing the number of care home admissions • Reducing the number of falls • Facilitating early discharge from hospital • Reducing the number, cost and intensity of care packages/nurse visit, e.g. enabling single hand care • Reduce the burden on Carers and risk of Carer breakdown, whilst increasing confidence and peace of mind • Supporting end of life care, delivered within the individuals chosen environment • Improving health and wellbeing by maximising independence, choice, control, dignity and quality of life within the individual’s home

Total Quantity or Scope

• Enabling people to be supported in their own homes • Reducing the number of hospital admissions and re-admissions • Reducing the number of care home admissions • Reducing the number of falls • Facilitating early discharge from hospital • Reducing the number, cost and intensity of care packages/nurse visit, e.g. enabling single hand care • Reduce the burden on Carers and risk of Carer breakdown, whilst increasing confidence and peace of mind • Supporting end of life care, delivered within the individuals chosen environment • Improving health and wellbeing by maximising independence, choice, control, dignity and quality of life within the individual’s home In addition to providing the equipment, the contract will include the delivery, collection, cleaning, storage, installation, decontamination, servicing, maintenance and recycling of the equipment. The Service shall operate based on credit back model for the purchase of Community Equipment (CE) stock. The Provider shall own the CE stock; the Commissioners shall purchase CE from the Provider when required. During the period in which the CE is loaned to Service Users, ownership of the CE will pass from the Provider to the Commissioners. The responsibility for accountability, serviceability and maintenance for CE will remain with the Provider. The Provider shall, upon collection of the CE from the Service User, credit back the agreed equipment value to the Commissioners once it has been collected, decontaminated and is ready for re-issue. All Special CE will be owned by the Commissioners from date of purchase. The responsibility for accountability, serviceability and maintenance of Special CE will remain with the Provider. The CE stock will comprise of all CE including component parts, spares and consumables.

Award Detail

Renewal Options

The Contract may be extended for a further 2 x 12 month periods at the sole discretion of the Council

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 85000000 - Health and social work services
• 33100000 - Medical equipments
• 33190000 - Miscellaneous medical devices and products
• 33196100 - Devices for the elderly
• 33196200 - Devices for the disabled
• 35820000 - Support equipment
• 75200000 - Provision of services to the community
• 85323000 - Community health services
• 98000000 - Other community, social and personal services

Indicators

• Options are available.

Other Information

** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. ** Due to the nature of the contract the contract values are based on a estimated activity levels and potential credit received over the full life of the contract including extensions.