Buying Solutions serves contract notice for assistive technology

Contract will be available to government departments and agencies, as well as the NHS and local authorities

The Treasury's buying agency is setting up a contract for assistive technology worth up to £300m.

Buying Solutions, the national procurement partner for public services, estimates its telecare, telehealth and telecoaching solutions framework will be worth between £50m and £300m.

It will be available to government departments and agencies, as well as the NHS and local authorities.

The framework is divided into six lots.

1. Supply of telecare products, including base units connected to a telephone network or broadband, call monitoring, and personal telecare products such as activity monitors.
2. Monitoring and response services.
   
3. Remote monitoring hardware and software, home hubs and other personal application hosting and communication devices, such as PCs with an internet connection and smartphones.
4. Off-the-shelf equipment, rather than the bespoke technologies covered elsewhere in the contract.
5. Video or audioconferencing between patients in the community and clinicians or care services to support the delivery of health and social care. This will include the installation and hosting of services.
6. Managed services; will include the management of accounts, customer liaison and training.

Each lot will have up to 40 suppliers and will be let for two years, with the option to extend for two additional periods of 12 months.

This article originally appeared in Kable.