Dental-practice services

Tender description

Arden and Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit, acting on behalf of NHS England Midlands and East (Central Midlands), will be inviting suitably qualified providers to offer high quality and safe General Dental Services across Leicestershire and Lincolnshire and a Special Care Dental Service for Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. Contracts will be Personal Dental Services Plus (PDS Plus) agreements for General Dental Services and Personal Dental Services (PDS) agreement for Special Care Dentistry Service. This procurement will consist of 11 Lots, each Lot covering one practice/service and each Lot being a separate contract. Providers will be able to bid for more than one Lot. The contracts being offered are for a period of seven years with the option to extend for up to a further three years (maximum contract term ten years). Potential bidders are invited to attend a market engagement event either in Lincoln or Leicester (see below). This procurement will consist of 11 Lots. Lots are expected to cover the following areas for General Dental Services: Leicester, Loughborough, Melton Mowbray, Oakham, Lincoln, Boston, Spalding, Sleaford The Lot for Special Care Dentistry Service is to cover the following areas: Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Further details of Lots will be given when the Invitation to Tender (ITT) is published. The ITT is intended to be published in late January 2017. Service commencement dates for the contracts are 1.12.2017. Market Engagement Events: Potential bidders are invited to attend a market engagement event either in Lincoln or Leicester and it is planned that the events will be held on the same day week commencing 16 January 2017. Further details will be provided to attendees who register an interest in this opportunity (see below). At each event, the Commissioner and Arden & GEM will present background information about the procurement and information regarding the process, including timescales and advice on preparing a bid. Potential bidders wishing to attend will need to register on the e-tendering portal, BravoSolution: https://ardengemcsu.bravosolution.co.uk, express an interest in the opportunity and complete a short electronic form to register for the event. Instructions for this are given below. Note that this is NOT a PQQ (Pre-Qualification Questionnaire) but is merely using the PQQ functionality within BravoSolution to record interest for the market engagement event.