Provision of Enteral Feeding Services to the BANES and Wiltshire STP

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Wiltshire Health and Care, Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust and Royal United Hospitals (Bath) NHS Foundation Trust ("The Contracting Authorities") currently receive a service for the provision of their enteral feeding requirements, from an external provider. The scope of this offering is as described below: Sip and enteral tube feeds in the acute hospital settings (adults and paediatrics). Enteral tube feeds, pumps and sets for all adult and paediatric home enterally fed patients (HEF) living in Swindon & Wiltshire. Home delivery service for all adult and paediatric home enterally fed patients (HEF) living in Swindon & Wiltshire. The service covers both adult and paediatric patients, with a requirement for: Pumps and ancillaries; Tube feeds; Oral nutritional supplements (ONS); Home delivery service for patients on tube feeding in community. The Contracting Authorities, prior to carrying out a competitive re-procurement process, are inviting expressions of interest from all technically capable providers who have experience in delivering comparable service solutions in the healthcare environment, to participate in early engagement with the Trust's procurement and clinical colleagues, prior to a procurement process being carried out. Please note that expressions of interest must be received within 6 weeks of the publication of this notice, in order to be able to participate in early engagement. This can be sent to the email address provided on this notice.