Dental Inhalation Sedation Equipment, Maintenance & Consumables

Description

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust (KCHFT) Dental services are tendering for a service contract for provision of OEM maintenance support and supply of new equipment for Porter, Matrx and Accutron Inhalation Sedation (RA) equipment, RA Medical Miniscav dental scavenging systems and OEM spare parts and consumable items. OEM maintenance support for routine servicing and breakdown repairs is required across 17 dental clinic sites throughout East Kent and Inner and Outer North East London. Lot 1: The aim of the service is to provide an efficient and effective technical support service to the KCHFT Community Dental Services to ensure that the inhalation sedation equipment used by KCHFT Community Dental Service meets the requisite health and safety standards to minimise risks to patients who are undergoing treatment. The Provider will ensure that all staff are appropriately qualified and competent to undertake the work for which they are responsible and undertake continuous professional development to maintain professional competencies. The Provider will undertake annual planned equipment maintenance on each piece of inhalation sedation equipment at the sites listed at Appendix 1 and will arrange such work to ensure that it is completed with the minimal potential disruption to clinical services. The Provider expects that, under normal circumstances, all items of inhalation sedation equipment at an individual site are available to test during a single visit. Planning will be carried out jointly between provider and authoriser dependant on availability of engineers and access to clinical facilities. To be conducted on an annual basis. The Provider will contact the KCHFT Dental Engineering Manager to schedule planned and reactive maintenance visits, ahead of the necessary work and, whenever possible, will plan for an entire year ahead or a substantial part thereof in agreement with the KCHFT Dental Engineering Manager found at page 1 of this contract. Where routine maintenance has identified a need for remedial action, then this will be notified to the KCHFT Dental Engineering Manager. KCHFT will then make the appropriate arrangements for return visit so that remedial works can be completed within 10 working days. The supply of consumables encompasses the core list specified in the commercial schedule and may during the term of the contract extend beyond these items and the list is not exhaustive. Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents which will be released to the supplier once they express interest. Lot 1: The aim of the service is to provide an efficient and effective technical support service to the KCHFT Community Dental Services to ensure that the inhalation sedation equipment used by KCHFT Community Dental Service meets the requisite health and safety standards to minimise risks to patients who are undergoing treatment. The Provider will ensure that all staff are appropriately qualified and competent to undertake the work for which they are responsible and undertake continuous professional development to maintain professional competencies. The Provider will undertake annual planned equipment maintenance on each piece of inhalation sedation equipment at the sites listed at Appendix 1 and will arrange such work to ensure that it is completed with the minimal potential disruption to clinical services. The Provider expects that, under normal circumstances, all items of inhalation sedation equipment at an individual site are available to test during a single visit. Planning will be carried out jointly between provider and authoriser dependant on availability of engineers and access to clinical facilities. To be conducted on an annual basis. The Provider will contact the KCHFT Dental Engineering Manager to schedule planned and reactive maintenance visits, ahead of the necessary work and, whenever possible, will plan for an entire year ahead or a substantial part thereof in agreement with the KCHFT Dental Engineering Manager found at page 1 of this contract. Where routine maintenance has identified a need for remedial action, then this will be notified to the KCHFT Dental Engineering Manager. KCHFT will then make the appropriate arrangements for return visit so that remedial works can be completed within 10 working days. The supply of consumables encompasses the core list specified in the commercial schedule and may during the term of the contract extend beyond these items and the list is not exhaustive. Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents which will be released to the supplier once they express interest.