Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-09-23
Buyer: Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85000000 | 85130000: Dental practice services | 85131000
Estimated value: 1192640 GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-10-18

Technical requirements: North of England Commissioning Support (NECS) is a commissioning support service hosted by NHS England and is managing this procurement process for and on behalf of Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership (the Contracting Authority).
This tender opportunity is for the provision of specialist primary care dental service – advanced mandatory and sedation (Restorative) across Greater Manchester.
Oral surgery is the speciality which predominantly deals with removal of teeth and surgery to their supporting structures within the jaws. The requirement for NHS England to commission oral surgery services is based on the guidance provided by the latest commissioning guide from NHS England.
Estimation of the need for oral surgical services is complex. Need in the population for oral surgery services is currently based upon the proportion of the population that present for operative treatment in this area. Service activity data is currently the most common measure.
Annual unit of dental activity for this procurement is 4416 with an annual contract value of 238 528 GBP and a total 5 year contract value of 1 192 640 GBP.
The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (as amended) may apply. Bidders are advised to obtain their own legal advice and carry out due diligence including the new fair deal non-statutory policy setting out how pensions issues are to be dealt with when staff are compulsorily transferred from the public sector to independent providers delivering public services.
(a) how what is proposed to be procured might improve the economic, social, and environmental well-being of the area where they
(b) how, in conducting the process of procurement, they might act with a view to securing that improvement.
Accordingly, the subject matter of the contract has been scoped to take into account the priorities of the Contracting Authority relating to ‘economic, social, and environmental well-being’.
The basic principles of the open procedure will be followed for this procurement to test the capacity, capability, and technical competence of bidders in accordance with the Light-Touch Rules Regime, Regulations 74 to 77 of The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (SI 2015 No102) (for Health, Social, Education, and certain other Service Contracts).
Public contracts for Health, Social, Education, and certain other Service Contracts listed in Schedule 3 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (SI 2015 No 102) (PCR 2015) shall be awarded in accordance with Chapter 3 Section 7 Regulation 74 to 77 of PCR 2015.
This procurement will be conducted via NECS e-Tendering system (In-Tend) accordingly there will be no hard copy documents issued
To bidders and all communications between bidders and the Commissioner including tender submissions, will be conducted via the
It is important to note that you can register for this procurement via the In-Tend portal only and no other portal.
To express an interest in tendering for this procurement, and (if you have not already done so) please register on the In-Tend e-Tendering portal, which can be found at:


Award value: 1192640