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Published 16 Aug 2023, 15:16 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Cornwall Community Equipment Loan Service (CELS)

Official notice

Authority: Cornwall Council (Local council)

GoodsOpen procedure
Published estimate£126,000,000exc. VAT
Submissions closed 3 Oct 2023awarded 7 Feb 2024
Awarded to Medequip Assistive Technology Ltd

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Provision of a Community Equipment Loan Service (CELS) for Cornwall and the Isle of Scilly. Cornwall Council is the lead commissioner of community equipment under the Better Care Fund Section 75 Agreement between Cornwall Council and NHS Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Board (ICB NHS). The CELS service provides equipment and other assistive technology to meet the support needs of both adults and children.

The principal aim of the Service is to ensure that people who have been assessed by a Prescriber as requiring equipment to enable them to live independently, or with support as part of a package of care, are supplied with equipment, which is sensitive to their needs, in a timely manner. Equipment provided must be clean, safe and fully functional. The Service will address the needs of children from birth to end of life. The Service will support Prescribers across health, social care and education to ensure that all children and adults are given the opportunity to reach their potential in all areas of their life. The people using the Service are adults and children with a Prescriber assessed need to support their health or social care.

CPV: Health and social work services · Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products · Repair and maintenance services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1AwardedRenewal
Delivery: South West
Extensions: The following areas of scope shall be considered optional. During later phases of the project the Council and NHS ICB will consider whether these scope areas shall be added to the CELS contract. The additional scope areas will require separate business case decisions. Areas of additional scope under consideration: Dynamic mattresses service into nursing homes • Provision of rental dynamic mattresses for treatment of pressure ulcers for individuals in nursing homes in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. • Currently delivered by two external providers not CELS, circa £70k per annum. • NHS ICB would like to consider this service element coming within scope of contract with new provider, which will be subject to a business case. • Please see Dynamic Mattress service specification included within the Tender pack for further details. NHS long term loan wheelchairs • Wheelchair supply, spares, accessories, repair and maintenance service • Bespoke moulded seating with powered wheelchair base • Currently delivered by an external provider not CELS, circa £2.3million per annum. • NHS ICB would like to consider this service element coming within scope of contract with new provider, which will be subject to a business case. • Please see Wheelchair service specification included within the Tender pack for further details. Continence products • Currently delivered separately to CELS. Together for Families (TFF) and NHS would like to consider this service element coming within scope of contract with new provider, which will be subject to a business case. Home Improvement Agency • Currently delivered by Cornwall Council • A review of the service is pending, and subject to the outcome of the review the Council may consider this service element coming within scope of contract with new provider, subject to a business case. Technology Enabled Care (TEC) • Currently, a significant part of TEC is provided by Corserv and within Cornwall Council it is fairly limited to pilots (‘Just Checking’ and ‘Genie’). • There is a new joint TEC strategy being developed, which will review our current position and consider delivery opportunities for the future expansion of the CIOS offer. This may result in a further expansion of the CELS offer, subject to a business case. The Council is going out to Tender for the first time for a Community Equipment Loan Service (CELS). Providers in the marketplace the Council has engaged with have advised and recommended mobilisation and bedding in of the core CELS service first. After the initial 6 to 12 months of the mobilisation and contract, the Council will explore with the chosen Provider, the opportunity to extend the scope of the agreement into some or all of the areas detailed above in a phased manner, subject to internal business case approval and variation of the contract agreement as set out. · Extension of up to 36 monthsVariant bids: not allowed

What it takes to win
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How this buyer will score bids.

The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).

Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add more
How bids were scored
Quality: 55%Price: 30%Social value: 15%
Published award criteria (3)
  • Quality: 55%
  • Social Value: 15%
  • Price: 30%
What this means for your bid
  • Price carries 30 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 3 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.

Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Procedure method
Open procedure
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category
Goods
Notice status
Awarded
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Yes (GPA)
Recurring procurement
Yes
First published
16 Aug 2023, 15:16 BST
Last source update
16 Aug 2024, 15:30 BST
Award evaluation window
3 Oct 2023 – …
Authority reference
DN542679
FTS notice number
2024/S 000-026185
Classification (CPV)
Health and social work servicesMedical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care productsRepair and maintenance services
Delivery area
South West (UKK3)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-03f05f Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Run through: ProContract (Due North) · Who buys & how to bid on ProContract
Supplier login requiredLanguage: EN
Access & registration note: Free · short registration with manual review; public opportunity list
Submission deadline
3 Oct 2023, 12:00 BST
Submission channel
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Accepted languages
en
Bid validity
270 days from the deadline
Bids opened
3 Oct 2023, 12:00 BST
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

Timeline

3 Oct 2023 → 16 Aug 2024 · 3 dates
  1. Submission deadline
    3 Oct 2023, 12:00 BST
  2. Bids opened
    3 Oct 2023, 12:00 BST
  3. Notice published
    16 Aug 2024, 15:30 BST

Notice history

1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender
  1. Status changed to complete
    16 Aug 2024, 15:30 BST

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 1
Bids received 2
Contracts signed 1latest 7 Feb 2024
Awarded toValueDateStatus
Medequip Assistive Technology Ltd——Awarded

Contracts

Bid statistics published by the authority

LotBidsSMEVCSEValid bid range
Provision of a Community Equipment Loan Service (CELS) for Cornwall and the Isle of Scilly2bids · 2 electronic0—£82,000,000 – £1,100,000,000
Whole notice———£82,000,000 – £126,000,000

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Cornwall Council

Contracting authorityLocal CouncilRegional or local authorityGeneral public services County Hall, Treyew Road, Truro, South West, TR1 3AYContact name, email, phone Published organisation website ↗

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Tender pack and attachments

  • Economic and financial selection criteriatenderEconomic and financial selection criteria
  • Technical selection criteriatenderTechnical selection criteria