Technologies for Independent Living: Telecare, Telehealth Framework

Established in 2004, Procurement for Housing (PfH) is a national procurement consortium dedicated to the social housing sector and supported by the National Housing Federation (NHF), Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) and HouseMark. Collectively our Members manage more than 75% of UK' social housing stock, with PfH helping them to achieve efficiency savings using a wide range of services including framework agreements, spend analyses, strategy reviews, consolidated billing and comprehensive reporting. PfH is a contracting authority under Regulation 2 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 ("PCR 2015") and a central purchasing body under regulation 37 PCR 2015.

Please refer to www. pfh. co.

uk for additional information. PfH is administered by Inprova Limited and is headquartered in the North West of England with over 20 years of expertise and experience offering a complete procurement solutions package across outsourcing, technology and consultancy. By integrating procurement services and technology, Inprova operates as a delivery partner, supporting business performance improvement for the public sector.

PfH is sought professional and experienced suppliers to form a framework agreement for Technologies for Independent Living: Telecare, Telehealth Solutions. The Framework Agreement will be for an initial period of three (3) years with an option to extend for a further twelve (12) months. The scope of the agreement covers multiple product categories which includes a core list of Telecare and Telehealth equipment and solutions including but not limited to; telecare equipment and associated services, telehealth solutions, telecare monitoring services and solutions, call monitoring and data applications, software and cloud based services and integrated managed services.

Bidders were advised to note that the estimated total Lot values provided within Document 1 - Invitation to Tender and in the Contract Notice, represent the estimated maximum spend ranges for each Lot. However, Tenderers were also advised to note that we expect the total value of the Framework Agreement across all lots to be less than that total sum, as it is unknown which contracting route will be selected by PfH Members.

This Framework may be used by any contracting authority listed in or referred to in the FTS Notice. This includes: All current members of

PfH at the time of the FTS notice for this procurement; Any registered provider of social housing (or Welsh registered social landlord ,or

Scottish registered social registered social landlord) that becomes a member of PfH during the period of the Framework Agreement; Any

public authority (as defined in the Freedom of Information Act 2000 for public authorities in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and

UK-wide public authorities based in Scotland, or as defined in the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 for Scottish public

authorities) that becomes a member of PfH at any time during the period of the Framework Agreement; Any local authority (as defined in

the Local Government Act 1972 for public authorities in England and Wales or as defined in the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973

for Scottish local authorities or as defined in the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972 for local authorities in Northern Ireland)

that becomes a member of PfH at any time during the period of the Framework Agreement; the Northern Ireland Housing Executive; any

housing Arm's Length Management Organisation (ALMO) that becomes a member of PfH during the period of the Framework Agreement;

Any wholly owned subsidiaries of any of the above Organisations; educational establishments and any other contracting authority listed on the following page of the PfH website:

http://procurementforhousing.co.uk/permissible-users/ at the time of the FTS notice for this procurement.

This tender is being managed through the Mytenders portal, id. 229059: Link www.mytenders.co.uk

Community benefits are included in this requirement. For more information see: https://www.gov.scot/policies/public-sector-procurement/community-benefits-in-procurement/

A summary of the expected community benefits has been provided as follows:

As set out in the procurement documents.