Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2017-06-21
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 (North Midlands) is looking to tender Community Dental Services across Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire (excluding Bassetlaw for all services except epidemiology). It is anticipated that the contract shall run from 1.4.2018 for a duration of 3 years with an option to extend up to a further 1 plus 1 years under a PDS contract. The anticipated contract value is 7 773 289 GBP per annum.
The service is expected to provide patient centred clinical services in a primary care setting for patients who are unable to access and obtain routine dental care in a general dental practice setting because of some impairment, disability and/or complex medical condition.
The aim of the Community Dental Service will be to improve the oral health and reduce the oral health inequalities of people in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire (excluding Bassetlaw for all services except epidemiology) who have a physical, sensory, intellectual, mental, medical, psychological and/or emotional or social impairment or disability or more often a combination of these through:
— Providing high quality consultant-led paediatric and special care dentistry to children and adults. This will include children with more complex dental needs;
— Providing high quality dental care to people from vulnerable groups whose needs may not be accommodated in NHS general dental services.
— Deliver the fieldwork for Public Health England's Dental Public Health Epidemiology Programme where commissioned for local authorities.
NHS England North Midlands is keen to obtain feedback from the market and is inviting suitably qualified providers to respond to a market engagement exercise and would like to invite potential Bidders to a market engagement event taking place on 30.6.2017 in Nottinghamshire 14:00 - 16:00 (venue to be confirmed).
Bidders should state in their response to Question ME01 and ME02 of the questionnaire if they would like to request and confirm a place at the market engagement event.
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 30.6.2017 from 14:00 - 16:00 in Nottinghamshire (venue to be confirmed) please see the following instructions below to confirm a place.
a) Logging-in to the Arden and GEM CSU e-Tendering portal https://ardengemcsu.bravosolution.co.uk (registration and use of the website is free of charge).
2. Complete the market assessment questionnaire and request a place at the market engagement event. Bidders should state in your response to Question ME01 and 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 28.6.2017. One you have registered your interest we will publish further details regarding the event closer to the time. Please note we are only able to accept up-to 2 attendees per organisation.
This is purely a market engagement exercise, 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.