Supply of Rise and Recliner Chairs

1.Vision Products is a supported business and part of Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council. The aim of the business is to provide and sustain independence, health and wellbeing to individuals in our community in which they provide services. This is achieved through the provision of cost-effective employment and development opportunities for people with disabilities.

Vision Products is based on Coed Cae Lane Industrial Estate in Pontyclun . Vision Products undertakes a Community Equipment Service to deliver, collect, refurbish and repair a diverse range of community equipment.

As part of the Supply of Riser Recliner Chairs and Complex Seating, there is a requirement for the successful applicant to provide spare parts, accessories and servicing cost as part of this tender.

The supply of standard economy and bariatric riser recliner chairs and complex seating for Vision Product's Community Equipment Service. Vision Products are the approved supplier to RCT, Merthyr Tydfil, Bridgend CBC and Cwm Taf Morgannwg NHS Trust. The equipment would go to people's homes for loan after an assessment of need by Occupational Therapists, then returned after the chair is no longer needed. Chairs would be refurbished and then loaned out again to other members of the public by way of a continuous cycle

It is the Authority’s intention to have two Suppliers. The supplier ranked 1 (Preferred Supplier) by virtue of the combined Quality / Price score will receive all orders, and the supplier ranked 2 (Reserve Supplier) will only be utilised when either supplier 1 (preferred supplier) cannot provide the equipment or deliver within the required timescales or to the required quality.

Contract period is 4 years with the option to extend for 3 x 12 months.