Awarded contract

Provision of Dental and Public Health Mobile Vehicle Maintenance and Service

Details

Supplier(s)
MCS Electrics
Value
£150,000
Duration
3 years
Topic
Repair and maintenance services
Published
27 March 2024

Tender description

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust's (KCHFT) Public Health Bus delivers mobile public health services across Kent. The Public Health Bus is used by various Public Health services including the Children and Young People's Counselling Service, Health Checks, Health Visiting, One You, School Health, TB nursing and Sexual Health. It's use is coordinated by the Health Inequalities Team. Other non-public health KCHFT services can also use the bus and the associated costs reclaimed from their budgets. The overall aim of the KCHFT Public Health Bus is to mobilise public health and clinical services to our communities in Kent to those facing inequality in accessing healthcare. The Trust is not a business with shareholders, which means that everything we do is for our patients. All our staff live and work in the communities we serve and have extensive training and experience in delivering health care. Our people are our most important asset. The purpose for this specification is to identify the requirements for the maintenance, servicing and provision for break down cover for the Public Health Bus The Health Inequalities Team will support access for viewing the Public Health Bus necessary for the submission of tenders. This will be carried out over a two-day period to be advised pre-tender submission. The viewings will support the individual design nuances of this vehicle and current condition of worthiness.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award published27 March 2024
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Award date1 April 2024
  3. Next: Contract expiry date31 March 2027in 6 months

About the buyer

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust delivers community health services across Kent and Medway, procuring as an NHS trust with its own commercial function. Tender opportunities are advertised on the Procontract portal, Contracts Finder and Find a Tender. Contracts for health services can be awarded through the Provider Selection Regime as well as competitive tender. The Procurement Act 2023, in force since February 2025, now governs its procurements. Community services are delivered through a partnership the trust leads with HCRG Care Group and Medway Community Healthcare.

UK health spending has nearly quadrupled to £241.8bn in 2024/25, £20bn up on the year before. £140.6bn of that went to procurement, the biggest sector of UK public spending and the fastest-growing.

Over the past 5 years, most of Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust's contract awards have been in software and information systems, medical equipment and pharmaceuticals and health and social work.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 50000000 · Repair and maintenance services

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