Published date: 9 May 2018
Closed early engagement
Contract summary
Industry
Dental practice and related services - 85130000
Location of contract
East Midlands
Procurement reference
tender_171261/671404
Published date
9 May 2018
Closing date
9 August 2018
Description
Arden & Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit on behalf of NHS England (North Midlands) is looking to tender Community Dental Services across Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire (excluding Bassetlaw for all Services except epidemiology). It is anticipated that the contracts shall run from 1st April 2019 for duration of 4 years and 11 months under a PDS contract.
The contracts will be offered in two lots each with an anticipated contract value per annum of:
Lot 1: Derbyshire - £5.75m
Lot 2: Nottinghamshire - £4.87m
NHS England (North Midlands) is inviting suitably qualified Providers to a market engagement event taking place on Wednesday 23rd May 2018 at 2pm in Mansfield (venue to be confirmed). A draft Service Specification has been attached as part of this PIN for potential Providers to consider and provide their comments, the deadline for comments and registering for the event is Friday 18th May 2018.
The services are expected to provide patient centred clinical services in a primary care setting for patients who are unable to access and obtain routine dental care in a general dental practice setting because of some impairment, disability and/or complex medical condition.
The aim of the Community Dental Services will be to improve the oral health and reduce the oral health inequalities of people in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire (excluding Bassetlaw for all services except epidemiology) who have a physical, sensory, intellectual, mental, medical, psychological and/or emotional or social impairment or disability or more often a combination of these through:
- Providing high quality consultant-led paediatric and special care dentistry to children and adults. This will include children with more complex dental needs;
- Providing high quality dental care to people from vulnerable groups whose needs may not be accommodated in NHS general dental services.
In addition the service will:
- Deliver the fieldwork for Public Health England's Dental Public Health Epidemiology Programme where commissioned for local authorities.
More information
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If your organisation is interested in providing these Services as set out above and attending the Market Engagement event scheduled to take place on Wednesday 23rd May 2018 in Mansfield at 2pm (venue to be confirmed) please see the following instructions below to confirm a place.
1. Express an interest by:
a) logging into the Arden & GEM CSU e-Tendering portal https://ardengemcsu.bravosolution.co.uk
(registration and use of the website is free of charge).
b) Selecting respond to advert and PQQ 491)
2. Complete the market assessment questionnaire and request a place at the market engagement event.
Bidders should state in your response to Question ME01 & ME02 if you would like to request a place at the market engagement event.
Bidders should submit their expression of interest to attend the market engagement event by no later than 10:00am on Friday 18th May 2018. Once you have registered your interest we will publish further details regarding the event closer to the time. Please note we are only able to accept up-to two attendees per organisation.
This is purely a market engagement exercise, any subsequent procurement will be advertised separately and all organisations wanting to participate will need to respond to the procurement advertisement as and when published. The responses received during the market analysis exercise will not be taken into account in any future evaluation process as part of the formal procurement process. Please note that THIS IS NOT A PQQ, we are using this functionality within the Bravo portal.
About the buyer
Contact name
Neelam Saroe
Address
10 Nottingham Road
Derby
DE1 3QT
England
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