Environmental decontamination services

Tender description

The Trust are looking to contract on a sole supplier basis for the provision of a service at Birmingham Dental Hospital and School of Dentistry (BDH) for the decontamination (including collection and delivery) of hand pieces for a period of three (3) fixed years with the option to extend for a period of up to 2 years comprised of up to 2 x 12 month periods. The service is to go live from 1.4.2019. This service will not be subject to the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulation 2013 (TUPE). All ITT documentation is accessible through the Trusts e-tendering portal https://procontract.due-north.com/register reference BCHC-17-0010. Within the Trust Dental Services Division, Dental services provide a specialist dental service at the Birmingham Dental Hospital and School of Dentistry (BDH), as well as in a number of community locations. This specification relates to the Birmingham Dental Hospital and School of Dentistry and to the following group of patients — Adults and children with special needs (for example, medically compromised, physically or mentally compromised, elderly housebound, people with learning disabilities, severely anxious or phobic people), — Children in pain who are without a dentist, — Children with high caries rate and limited co-operation, — Children with behavioural problems. The service also provides the following specialist services: — sedation, — general anesthetic, — oral surgery, — oral medicine, — special care, — pediatrics, — restorative and — orthodontics. Scope. The BDH decontamination service is to be provided from Monday to Friday and included the collection, delivery and decontamination of hand pieces. The collection of dirty items and delivery of sterile items directly to and from the main stores within BDH. The service will also include the oiling of hand pieces. Excluded from the service provision are decontamination services to the Combined Community Dental Clinics based in Sandwell, Walsall, Dudley and Birmingham and the servicing of Trust owned hand pieces. Further information relating to the Trust Dental Services can be found at http://www.bhamcommunity.nhs.uk/patients-public/birmingham-dental-hospital/ The contract is to commence from 1.4.2019 with a fixed period of 3 years plus an optional period of up to 24 months thereafter. The service is to be provided at BDH which is based at 5 Mill Pool Way, Birmingham B5 7EG. This service will not be subject to the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulation 2013 (TUPE). Part of the qualifying criteria will be the completion of a Standard Qualification Questionnaire (SQQ) by the date stipulated in the advert. To enable access and respond to all documentation relating to this tender process potential suppliers are to register on the Trust e-tendering portal. To register on the portal please go to https://procontract.due-north.com/register and complete the registration details. Once you have registered you will then be able to access the published documents relating to this service which will be listed as BCHC-17-0010 Decontamination of Hand pieces to the Birmingham Dental Hospital