Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2017-06-22
Buyer: Arden & Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 85130000: Dental practice services

Technical requirements: Arden and Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit on behalf of NHS England — Central Midlands (the Commissioner) is inviting suitably qualified and experienced providers to deliver Domiciliary Dental Services for Hertfordshire for people who are resident in care homes, or require the services of a domiciliary dentist, within Hertfordshire. The service is anticipated to commence on 1.4.2018 for a contract duration of 5 years till 31st March 2023 under a PDS agreement.
The service is expected to deliver appropriate oral health care to all patients whose circumstances make it impossible, unreasonable or otherwise impractical for them to receive care in a dental surgery. This should include:
The Service will provide dental services 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.
NHS England Central Midlands is inviting suitably qualified providers interested in providing these Services set out above to a market engagement event taking place on 21.7.2017, 11:00 — 13:00 in Hertfordshire. Please login to Bravo and access PQQ 414 for further details, please state in your response to question ME01&ME02 of the questionnaire on Bravo if you would like to confirm a place.
If your organisation is interested in providing these services as set out above and attending the market engagement event scheduled to take place on Friday  21.7.2017, 11:00 — 13:00 in Hertfordshire, please see the following instructions below to confirm a place.
a) logging-in to the Arden & GEM CSU e-Tendering portal https://ardengemcsu.bravosolution.co.uk (registration and use of the website is free of charge).
2. Request a place at the market place 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 12:00 on Wednesday 19.7.2017. One you have registered your interest we will publish further details regarding the event and venue closer to the time. Please note we are only able to accept up-to two attendees per organisation.
This is purely a market engagement event, 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.