LBN Transforming Community Equipment Service

Tender description

The London Borough of Newham (LBN) invites tender for Approved Provider List (APL) for the Transforming Community Equipment Service. The APL, once established, will be in place for one year and shall be a closed List, meaning that providers cannot be added to the List after the tender process has concluded. Community Equipment is the collective term used to describe products and minor adaptations that enable disabled, vulnerable and older people to perform the essential activities of daily living - to maintain their health and autonomy and to live as full a life as possible. Items of equipment are classified as either Simple Aids to Daily Living (“SADLs”) or Complex Aids to Daily Living (“CADLs”). Examples of SADLs are; toileting aids, such as commodes or bedpans, mobility aids, such as walking frames and bathing aids, such as shower/bath seats. SADLs are usually under £100. In particular, the provision of Community Equipment in a fast and responsive way plays a key role in supporting timely hospital discharge by ensuring Customers have the appropriate physical support when they return to their home; and in avoiding hospital re/admission. The primary functions the Providers shall be required to deliver include, procuring, storing, dispensing, delivering, fitting, collecting and disposing of SADLs for Customers.Customers shall consist of disabled, vulnerable and older people aged eighteen and over who are ordinarily resident in the borough and / or registered with a General Practitioner located within the borough. The Service is demand led and therefore the Provider shall not be required to provide a Service to a specific number of Customers, but shall have the capability and capacity to flex with demand. Commissioners wish to ensure that the borough has at least two Providers on the APL in each Community Neighbourhood in the borough to ensure geographical equity