The WA Country Health Service (WACHS) Kimberley requires the decommissioning and removal of the current nurse call systems and the supply, installation, commissioning and maintenance/support of new nurse call and personnel duress alarm systems at Broome and Kununurra Hospitals.

Broome Hospital has approximately 60 inpatient beds and the Emergency Department (ED) was expanded to 15 acute bays in 2015. Kununurra Hospital has approximately 32 inpatient beds and the ED has four (4) acute bays. The hospitals have been redeveloped and refurbished in stages over time and this is reflected in the duress and nurse call systems in operation throughout the hospitals.

WACHS requires an experienced and approved contractor to decommission and remove the existing systems and then supply, install, commission and provide ongoing maintenance/support of the nurse call and personnel duress alarm system at Broome and Kununurra Hospitals.  Additional sites maybe added during the term.

The scope of works for Broome and Kununurra Hospitals includes the following:

• Decommission and remove existing nurse call and duress systems, including all legacy system hardware devices, cabling, receivers, controllers and headend equipment.
• Supply, install, test and commission a new nurse call and personal duress alarm system and complete with all accessories and components necessary for reliable operation.
• Carry out alterations and additions to the existing wall boxes, conduits and the like, as required to accommodate new cabling and equipment.

The new call systems are to include but not be limited to the following major components:

• Nurse call system;
• Staff assistance call system;
• Emergency call system;
• Fixed duress call system;
• Wireless duress call system;
• Paging system; and
• Real time location system.
• Ongoing service/maintenance of the systems.

WACHS will be requesting that the nurse call and personal duress alarm systems be integrated to include all cables and cable terminations, system controller equipment, alarm or sensor inputs, control outputs, encoders, transmitters, programming and the like to match all systems using high level interfaces between such equipment.