Published date: 20 December 2017

Last edited date: 20 December 2017

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 25 July 2017

Contract summary

Industry

  • Dental practice and related services - 85130000

Location of contract

London

Value of contract

£4,000,000 to £5,000,000

Procurement reference

RTL042P

Published date

20 December 2017

Closing date

25 July 2017

Contract start date

1 July 2018

Contract end date

30 June 2023

Contract type

Not applicable

Procedure type

Restricted procedure (above threshold)

A two-stage procedure, where the first stage is used to select suppliers, who are then invited to bid in the second stage.

This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

This is not a live procurement advert. This is an amendment notice to advise the market that due to very high numbers of bidders interested in this procurement there have been some delays to our original timeline. This has resulted in the service commencement date moving from 1st April 2018 to 1st July 2018. Current contracts are being extended and this change was unavoidable. Should you wish to discuss or raise a concern regarding this amendment, please contact david.singleton2@nhs.net and you are reminded of your rights and time frame associated with any formal challenge.

Please note that all values are annual.

The service is for level 2 Oral Surgery as defined by the Guide for Commissioning Oral Surgery Services and Oral Medicine as "a procedural and/or patient complexity requiring a clinician with enhanced skills and experience who may or may not be on a specialist register. This care may require additional equipment or environment standards but can usually be provided in primary care. Level 2 complexity may be delivered as part of the continuing care of a patient or may require onward referral. Providers of Level 2 care on referral will need a formal link to a specialist to quality-assure the outcome of pathway delivery".

The published financial envelope for this service includes a 25% increase to reflect an estimated level of work currently undertaken by our secondary care providers. Bidders should review the tender documents for more information. We are working with our secondary care providers in order to make the shift from level 2 oral surgery being delivered from secondary care into primary care. It is anticipated that many of the awarded contracts may grow in size as a result of this action; it is envisaged that the primary care activity may increase by up to 25% over the lifetime of the contract.
For the avoidance of doubt, while this is the intention, this transfer from secondary to primary may not take place during the life of this contract.

The 'Lot' structure has been described below:
Lot 1 Hillingdon
Lot 2 Ealing and Hounslow
Lot 3 Westminster, Hammersmith & Fulham and Kensington & Chelsea
Lot 4 Camden & Islington
Lot 5 City & Hackney
Lot 6 Tower Hamlets and Newham
Lot 7 Brent and Harrow
Lot 8 Barnet
Lot 9 Enfield
Lot 10 Haringey
Lot 11 Waltham Forest and Redbridge
Lot 12 Havering and Barking & Dagenham
Lot 13 Greenwich and Bexley
Lot 14 Bromley
Lot 15 Southwark and Lewisham
Lot 16 Croydon
Lot 17 Lambeth and Wandsworth
Lot 18 Sutton and Merton
Lot 19 Kingston and Richmond

Each contract award will be based on the Lot applied for. The Commissioner intends to award one contract for each of the Lots described above; however, the service can be provided from more than one site in each Lot.

This is not a live procurement advert. This is an amendment notice to advise of delays and provide the opportunity to discuss

More information

Additional text

Please be advised that this is an amendment notice. Due to very high numbers of bidders interested in this procurement there have been some delays to our original timeline. This has resulted in the start date of the project moving from 1st April 2018 to 1st July 2018. Should you wish to discuss or raise a concern regarding this change then please contact david.singleton2@nhs.net, you are reminded of your rights and the associated time frame with any formal challenge.

About the buyer

Contact name

David Singleton

Address

Skipton House, 80 London Road
80 London Rd
London
SE1 6LH
England

Email

david.singleton2@nhs.net