Kent Community Health NHS Trust is seeking expressions of interest from service providers who will maintain and repair the Trust's medical devices/equipment. This will not include specialist equipment and the full scope of this equipment will be defined in the Invitation to Tender documents.

The provider will be required to provide:

— Servicing/calibration facility (6 or 12 month frequency as required and directed by the Trust),

— Repair Facility,

— Acceptance testing of new equipment facility,

— Decommissioning and disposal of redundant equipment facility,

— Helpdesk and access to medical library,

— Collection and delivery facility.

The service provider is required to have good local knowledge (to serve the Trust's services which are situated throughout Kent).

Servicing will be conducted on Trust sites wherever possible.

Kent Community Health NHS Trust is growing and expanding to areas outside of the Kent locality. Any successful provider will need to be able to cover these new areas.

The top 6-8 companies will be invited to submit tenders after the PQQ stage and these tender submissions will be evaluated on quality criteria of 60 % and financial criteria of 40 %.

The PQQ will be released after the EOI stage has closed on 26th August to all bidders at the same time.

The contract will be divided into lots.

Expressions of interest must be submitted to our Procurement Portal Due North and any correspondence to Trust staff email addresses will be disregarded.

Please follow this link to register on the portal:

https://www.supplying2nhs.com/procontract/healthservice/cms.nsf/vHomePage/fSection?OpenDocument