RFI for The Provision of Wheelchairs and Associated Services to Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre (DMRC)

Description

The Contracting Authority would like to notify you of a future upcoming opportunity, and by doing so we are keen to understand where the market stands in terms of our requirement below.

This Request for Information (RFI) seeks input relating to the provision of the following:

• Specialist wheelchairs (and a mechanism to provide these)
• Wheelchair loan pool management
• Wheelchair seating service
• Wheelchair technical assessments
• Repair and maintenance of wheelchairs
• Reporting and prescription service for technical assessments
• Training in manual and power wheelchair maintenance
competencies and assessment of patients for wheelchairs and
specialist seating
• Clinical cleaning of wheelchairs
• Maintenance of a database of wheelchairs, accessories and
cushions
• Handover service to the NHS for wheelchair services upon
military discharge of patients.

The Authority is looking to understand the shape of the current market and whether one or more Potential Providers can deliver the outline requirement as attached to this RFI. To that end the Contracting Authority has a number of questions it would like a Potential Provider to respond to the Authority as follows:

1. Whether it would be possible (or not) to fully outsource all the
outlined requirements.
2. If it is not possible to fulfil all the requirements of this RFI, what
requirements can be fulfilled?
3. Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) costs for a fully outsourced
service or if this is not possible, ROM costs for what can be
provided.
4. An understanding of potential alternative future service delivery
models that could help facilitate this requirement.

Further detail regarding how to reply to this RFI can be found in the attachment titled 'RFI - Wheelchairs Provision'

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