Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2018-04-27
Buyer: Arden and Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 85130000: Dental practice services

Technical requirements: Tier 2 — Minor Oral Surgery, Sedation and Restorative Services and Tier 1 Mandatory Services with Sedation
NHS England (Central Midlands) commissions a full range of NHS dental services on behalf of its population and would like to commission an intermediate (Tier 2) specialist service across the Central Midlands within Primary care or community settings.
The NHS 5 Year forward view sets out new ways of working so that the NHS does more to prevent ill health and use its finite resources in the most effective way. It cites examples of multi-speciality working within community settings. We have used the philosophy of the 5 Year forward view to develop this specification for Tier 2 Advanced mandatory services within primary or intermediate care settings. It covers:
NHS England (Central Midlands) is inviting suitably qualified providers to a market engagement event taking place on Thursday 21.6.2018 in Northampton (M1 Junction 15) at 2pm (venue to be confirmed).
A draft Service specification has been attached as part of this PIN for potential providers to consider and provide their comments.
Please note that an expression of interest in this market event will not automatically entitle involvement in any future procurement exercise. Any procurement(s) conducted as a result of this event will be advertised separately and all organisations wanting to participate will need to respond to the procurement advertisement as and when it may be published.
Bidders should state in their response to Question ME01 and ME02 of the questionnaire if they would like to request 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 Thursday 21.6.2018 in Northampton (M1 Junction 15) at 2pm (venue to be confirmed) please see the following instructions below to confirm a place.
a) logging into 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 10:00am on Friday 15.6.2018. Once 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 two 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.