Tender: Equipping Consultancy for New Frimley Park Hospital (RIBA Stage 2–3, Option Stage 4)

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Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a supplier for equipping consultancy services for the New Frimley Park Hospital programme covering RIBA Stage 2 (Concept Design) and RIBA Stage 3 (Spatial Coordination) with an option to extend into RIBA Stage 4 to support the development of the Outline Business Case. The service scope includes developing an Equipping Strategy and Equipment Governance Framework aligned to New Hospital Programme and Hospital 2.0 guidance; equipment categorisation (Group 1, 2 and 3) in line with the NHP strategy; development and management of a Master Equipment Schedule and departmental equipment schedules; stakeholder engagement and requirements capture with clinical, operational, estates, digital, clinical engineering and finance teams; Room Data Sheet validation, design integration, technical assurance and BIM alignment; medical equipment and digital integration covering interoperability, asset tracking and digital asset requirements; equipment cost planning (capital, lifecycle and procurement assumptions) and inputs to the Outline Business Case; development of equipment procurement, logistics, commissioning and operational readiness planning; and management of the Equipping Risk Register, with an optional asset audit of existing equipment. The appointed provider will be expected to deliver evidence-led equipping outputs fully integrated with the developing design, work as part of an integrated professional team and coordinate with wider design, cost and programme workstreams; this procurement is an open procedure under the Procurement Act 2023 and requires submission of a full tender including responses to conditions of participation assessed on a pass/fail basis.