Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-08-13
Buyer: Arden and GEM Commissioning Support Unit on behalf of NHS England (NHS Commissioning Board)
Country: UK
Region: Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85000000 | 85130000: Dental practice services
Submission deadline: 2016-09-30
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Arden and Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit on behalf of NHS England — North Midlands (the Commissioner) is inviting suitably qualified and experienced providers to deliver a Domiciliary Dental Service for Nottinghamshire (excluding Bassetlaw). The contract is to provide domiciliary dental care for people who are resident in care homes, or require the services of a domiciliary dentist, within Nottinghamshire (excluding Bassetlaw). The contract size is 2 000 UDAs (units of dental activity) and the average number of patients seen on the existing contract over the duration of the contract is 350 per annum. This service is expected to visit nursing/residential homes and to provide ad-hoc visits across the patch as required/requested.
The service is expected to provide appropriate oral health care, including a full examination and cancer screening, oral health risk assessment, treatment and oral health promotion to all patients whose circumstances make it impossible, unreasonable or otherwise impractical for them to receive care in a dental surgery. The service will work collaboratively with the Nottinghamshire Oral Health Promotion team. Provide dental services within Nottinghamshire (excluding Bassetlaw) for residential, nursing and care homes and patients confined to their own homes. Patients eligible for treatment under this service will have long term and/or progressive medical conditions; mental illness or dementia, causing disorientation and confusion in unfamiliar environments; or increasing frailty which means that they are not able to travel to a dental surgery.
This contract is for a period of 3 years with the option to extend for a further 2 years on an annual basis (i.e. 3 years + 1 year + 1 year).
Parent company or other guarantees, bonds, deposits, insurance or other forms of security may be required in certain circumstances.
The contracting authority reserves the right to require groupings of contractors to take a particular legal form or to require one party to undertake primary legal liability or to require that each party undertakes joint and several liability.
Arden and Gem CSU is managing this procurement in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (the “Regulations”). The Service is being procured under “Schedule 3 — Social and Other Specific Services”.
1. Register your company on the eSourcing portal (this is only required once) — Browse to the eSourcing Portal: https://ardengemcsu.bravosolution.co.uk and click the link to register — Accept the terms and conditions and click ‘continue' — Enter your correct business and user details — Note the user-name you chose and click ‘Save' when complete — You will shortly receive an e-mail with your unique password (please keep this secure).
2. Express an Interest in the tender — Login to the portal with the username/password — Click the ‘PQQs / ITTs Open To All Suppliers' link (these are Pre-Qualification Questionnaires or Invitations to Tender open to any registered supplier) — Click on the relevant ITT (ITT_508) to access the content. — Click the ‘Express Interest' button at the top of the page — This will move the PQQ /ITT into your ‘My PQQs/My ITTs' page (this is a secure area reserved for your projects only) — You can now access any attachments by clicking ‘Buyer Attachments' in the ‘PQQ/ ITT Details' box.
3. Responding to the tender — Click ‘My Response' under ‘PQQ/ ITT Details', you can choose to ‘Create Response' or to ‘Decline to Respond' (please give a reason if declining) — You can now use the ‘Messages' function to communicate with the buyer and seek any clarification — Note the deadline for completion, then follow the on screen instructions to complete the PQQ/ ITT — There may be a mixture of online and offline actions for you to perform (there is detailed on-line help available). You must then submit your reply using the ‘Submit Response' button at the top of the page. If you require any further assistance please consult the online help, or contact the e-Tendering help-desk.