Optometry Prison Service Provision

Tender description

The nature of this service is to provide optometric services to prisoners of HMP Usk and Prescoed which is equivalent to that provided to members of the general public as far as possible. The ophthalmic service will provide a community equivalent ophthalmic service that meets the needs of patients, with equity of access within the prison. The ophthalmic service will work with all health and wellbeing service providers to deliver an integrated service where clinicians work together as a team to deliver patient centred care. Lot 1: On Tuesday 16th January 2024 the tender was published on eTenderWales and response was required by a deadline of Thursday 08th February 2024 by 12pm. Out of 2 suppliers who accessed the tender documentation, 1 submitted a response. Bidders were required to respond to a number of qualification questions. The questions were used to assess bidders on the mandatory and discretionary grounds for exclusion and also their technical and professional ability. Responses to these questions were assessed on a pass/ fail basis. A fail on any of these questions would result in a bidder being disqualified from the process. Bidding organisations who score a minimum of 50% or above to each of the Award Criteria weight sections was invited to attend a formal invite to a 10-minute presentation and 10-minite interview to demonstrate how the supplier proposed to deliver the service in line with the Service Specification issued by the Health Board. The Optometry Prison Service was awarded to the supplier The Prison Optician.