Planning

Hampshire Community Equipment Service Market Engagement

  • Hampshire County Council

UK2: Preliminary market engagement notice - Procurement Act 2023 - view information about notice types

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-008055

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-04e9cd

Published 5 March 2025, 1:47pm

Last edited 6 March 2025, 11:39am

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Scope

Reference

AS26707

Description

The aim of equipment services is to encourage, promote and enable the use of equipment, to support the care and support requirements of individuals to enable them to remain in their own homes. Initial discussions and reviews of the equipment service available in Hampshire have raised questions that we believe may best be answered by providers themselves.

The Commissioners for Hampshire County Council are seeking the views of Community Equipment Service Providers to ensure delivery and use of high-quality, accessible equipment for both health and social care requirements for individuals in Hampshire.  We are seeking feedback on a range of topics including but not limited to:

  • providers experiences of running equipment services, (including key considerations and challenges),
  • types of service models available and preferences of the market,
  • staffing structures and
  • operational costs
  • any other key considerations that the Council should be made aware of.

This engagement is designed to assist Commissioners to develop any possible requirements and best practice approaches when considering possible future commissioning activity relating to a Community Equipment Service. Therefore, we wish to engage with the market and seek your views. Your views are extremely important to us, and we would appreciate your time completing this questionnaire. We are committed to working collaboratively with the market and we cannot develop our future strategy without your input. 

You do not need to answer all the questions to submit this engagement questionnaire. Any information that you can provide is of value to us.

This is not the beginning of a Tender exercise. Your feedback as a provider at this point will not have a bearing on any future Tender submissions you may wish to offer at a later date. You will not be disadvantaged if you choose not to respond to this engagement questionnaire, however it will be helpful to understand your views at this early stage, so you are encouraged to respond as fully as you can. Please note, we will look to share responses with our Commissioning colleagues in both the Hampshire and Isle of Wight and Frimley ICBs.

Total value (estimated)

  • £50,000,000 excluding VAT
  • £60,000,000 including VAT

Above the relevant threshold

Contract dates (estimated)

  • 1 April 2027 to 31 March 2032
  • 5 years

Main procurement category

Services

CPV classifications

  • 33192600 - Lifting equipment for health care sector
  • 45233292 - Installation of safety equipment
  • 50400000 - Repair and maintenance services of medical and precision equipment
  • 85000000 - Health and social work services
  • 98000000 - Other community, social and personal services

Contract locations

  • UKJ3 - Hampshire and Isle of Wight

Engagement

Engagement deadline

28 March 2025

Engagement process description

Hampshire County Council wish to engage with any providers of Community Equipment Services. This engagement is in the form of an engagement questionnaire which we will issue to the market for responses via the Intend procurement system with a closing date of 28th of March 2025.

Please log in to Hampshire's intend portal: Hampshire County Council Electronic Tendering Site - Registration - Company Details

And search for project titled: Hampshire Community Equipment Service Market Engagement

Reference: AS26707


Submission

Publication date of tender notice (estimated)

1 April 2026


Procedure

Special regime

Light touch


Contracting authority

Hampshire County Council

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PBHM-7586-PWLP

The Castle

Winchester

SO23 8UQ

United Kingdom

Contact name: Juan Carosio

Email: asprocure@hants.gov.uk

Website: http://www.hants.gov.uk

Region: UKJ36 - Central Hampshire

Organisation type: Public authority - sub-central government