Community Equipment Service (FOI)

Request

Community Equipment Service 

A

Do you operate an in-house service for community equipment or is it outsourced? 

B

If you are an in-house service who is your current community equipment service software provider?

C

How many prescribing staff do you have throughout your community equipment service? 

D

Did you tender for your current system or was it procured through a framework? 

E

If tendered, when did you last tender for your current contract? 

F

What date did your current contract start? 

G

How long is your current contract and does it include an extension period? 

H

Please provide the financial value of the contract in the last 12 months.

I

Was hardware included in your contract?

Response

A

Health and Community Services (HCS) do not have a contracted service for community equipment.

B

HCS do not use any software specific to community equipment.

C

There are three staff, with a Full Time Equivalent (FTE) post occupancy of 2.5 FTEs.

D

No tender process took place for a system.

E

Not applicable.

F

Not applicable, there is no contract.

G to I

Not applicable, as per answer to question F.