Portable Appliance Testing

Tender description

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board (CVUHB) is looking to implement a contract for Portable Appliance Testing across its Estate. CVUHB has two main sites, University Hospital of Wales (UHW), and the University Hospital of Wales Llandough (UHL). There are several smaller community hospitals and numerous clinics which all come within the Health Boards property portfolio. The scope of the works shall be to carry out a formal visual inspection and combined inspection and test of portable appliances. A portable electrical appliance shall be an item of equipment which is not part of a fixed installation but is, or is intended to be connected to a fixed installation or a generator by means of a flexible cable and a plug and socket. It shall include equipment that is either hand held or hand operated while connected to the supply or is intended to be moved while connected to the supply or is likely to be moved while connected to the supply.