Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-02-19
Buyer: London Borough of Redbridge
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services
Estimated value: 309192 GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-03-18
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The Council of the London Borough of Redbridge (‘the Authority’) is seeking tenders from suitably experienced and qualified organisations for the contract for the provision of an oral health promotion service in the London Borough of Redbridge (‘the Contract’).
The Contract is for the provision of an oral health promotion service in the London Borough of Redbridge in the London Borough of Redbridge and aims to:
— collaboratively develop, model and implement an evidence based programme of oral health promotion for the specified population across Redbridge,
— integrate oral health promotion into children's commissioning and the broader public health agenda,
— train health, education and social care professionals in key oral health messages to enable them to provide opportunistic brief oral health intervention,
— co-ordinate and enable delivery of Brushing for Life (BFL) programme delivered by health visitor teams at child progress checks at 8 months and two and half (2 ½) years within the Healthy Child Programme;
— ensure teams supporting children with additional needs are supported to improve their oral health and access appropriate dental services for early prevention,
— develop and deliver oral health promotion training to primary, community and other frontline staff such as, but not restricted to: school based staff, children centre based staff, Health Visiting staff, school nursing staff, child care providers, residential and nursing home staff and staff delivering services to other vulnerable adults (i.e. alcohol and substance misuse services),
— recruit oral health champions from staff, parents and carer’s trained as detailed in f) above to act as key oral health promoters in their respective work areas and promote oral health through workshops and events,
— develop and deliver a tooth brushing programme in the Authority's Children's Centre nurseries (3 to 4 year olds) and support the linking in of dental practices to promote access for continuing care,
— develop links and partnerships with other health organisation’s, voluntary and community and religious groups to support opportunistic brief oral health intervention,
— develop a protocol for the identification and response to concerns linked to possible dental neglect,
— support the Authority in the delivery of the dental survey programme to inform the public health outcome framework indicator 4.2 — tooth decay in 5-year old children.
The contracting authority will incorporate a minimum 10 day calendar day standstill period at the point the information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. This period allows unsuccessful tenderers to seek further de-briefing from the contracting authority before the contract is entered into. Additional information should be requested from the contact in Section I.1). If an appeal regarding the award of contract has not been successfully resolved the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (S1 2015 No 102) provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England and Wales).


Award value: 309192