Health services

Tender description

NHS England London Region (the Contracting Authority) is seeking to identify suitable providers of Community Dental Services (CDS) as part of its strategy for the development and delivery of special care dentistry and paediatric dentistry across London. There are 3 parts to the delivery model: — Core CDS Provision — Providing quality dental care to special care and paediatric groups and selected other hard to reach groups, in both clinic and community settings; — Provision of Dental Services to Homeless — The provision of dental services for people whose unpredictable living circumstances prevent them from accessing general dental practice. These services are being procured as additional services linked to the core community dental service procurement; and — Provision of Dental Services to Bariatric patients — The provision of dental services for people whose obesity prevents them from accessing general dental practice. ‘Bariatric Dentistry’ is used as an appropriate way of referring to dentistry for this group of patients. These services are being procured as additional services linked to the core community dental service procurement. These service contracts are split into 10 Lots as follows (see map provided with PQQ documentation): — Lot 1: Outer NW London (1); Based within the area covered by the London Boroughs of Hillingdon, Hounslow and Ealing; — Lot 2: Outer NW London (2) — Based within the area covered by the London Boroughs of Barnet, Brent and Harrow; — Lot 3: Inner NW London — Based within the area covered by the London Boroughs of Hammersmith and Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster; — Lot 4: Outer NE London — Based within the area covered by the London Boroughs of Waltham Forest, Redbridge, Barking and Dagenham and Havering; — Lot 5: Inner NE London — Based within the area covered by the London Boroughs of City and Hackney, Tower Hamlets and (Newham from April 2021); — Lot 6: N Central London — Based within the area covered by the London Boroughs of Enfield, Haringey, Camden and Islington; — Lot 7: Outer SE London — Based within the area covered by the London Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich; — Lot 8: Inner SE London — Based within the area covered by the London Boroughs of Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark; — Lot 9: SW London (1) — Based within the area covered by the London Boroughs of Sutton, Merton and Croydon; — Lot 10: SW London (2) — Based within the area covered by the London Boroughs of Richmond, Kingston and Wandsworth; — Lot 11: Homeless — Based on the highest levels of homelessness within specified boroughs, the proposed service will be delivered from 4 sites; — Lot 12: Bariatric — The proposed service will be delivered from a maximum of 4 sites. The contract/s let as a result of this procurement to deliver Community Dental Services will be for a period of 5 years (60 months) followed by an optional extension period of 5 years (60 months). Therefore if all extension options are used, the maximum (extended) contract period will be 10 years (120 months). The envisaged start date for the new services is currently 1.4.2017. Indicative annual contract values per Lot are as follows and are subject to amendment up until the issue of the ITT. Lot; Envisaged maximum annual envisaged maximum contract value; Contract Value GBPm (excluding extension options) GBPm. (Core CDS Only). 1 — Outer NW (1): 2,85; 14,2. 2 — Outer NW (2): 3,18; 15,9. 3 — Inner NW: 1,62; 8,1. 4 — Outer NE: 3,30; 16,5. 5 — Inner NE: 1,50; 7,5. 6 — N Central: 3,28; 16,4. 7 — Outer SE: 2,94; 14,7. 8 — Inner SE: 2,69; 13,4. 9 — SW (1): 2,78; 13,9. 10 — SW (2): 2,23; 11,1. 11 — Homeless: 0,63; 3,1. 12 — Bariatric: 0,33; 1,6. Total: 27,33; 136,5. The costings for each Lot are based upon the eligible population in each borough broken down by the following groupings: — 0-5 years; — 6-16 years; — Child special needs; — Adult special needs; — Physical disability; — Frail elderly (over 80). Bidders should be aware that these contracts are based on a new specification and referral criteria, and not existing ones. The principles which underpin the specification reflect both the National Commissioning Guide in respect of Special Care Dentistry, and the draft Paediatric Commissioning Guide. In addition to the Core CDS service, resources have been set aside to supplement the costs of Domiciliary care, Epidemiology and for the provision of GA not provided under an acute contract. Bidders will not be limited in how many Lots they are able to bid for and the Contracting Authority may award multiple Lots to 1 Bidder (where Bidders express an interest in being awarded multiple Lots and are the highest scoring Bidders across multiple Lots following evaluation — see PQQ documentation for further details). This procurement process, the Contracting Authority intends to award one contract for each of the Lots described above. Further information on the proposed structure of the contract will be provided in the ITT documentation made available online to interested parties on the e-tendering portal. The Contracting Authority is operating an e-Procurement process, through its procurement support provider North and East London Commissioning Support Unit (NEL CSU) via the link provided below. Interested Applicants wishing to participate in this procurement must respond to this advert by submitting their PQQ response via the portal before 17.3.2016 at 12:00. The PQQ documentation is available online on https://procontract.due-north.com/register website. If you are not already registered on the portal you will need to register. The contract will incorporate a suite of KPIs and standard performance monitoring arrangements. NHS England London Regional is operating an e-tendering process via the link provided below. Interested Applicants wishing to participate in this procurement activity must express an interest by registering their details and completing the PQQ available from the portal website at: https://procontract.due-north.com/register If you are not already registered on the portal you will need to register your organisation before you can continue with your Expression of Interest and this registration procedure will take 24 hrsto turnaround from the submission of your registration. Once registered, you will need to navigate to ‘Current Opportunities’. Within this area there is a project called ‘RTL034P Community Dental Services’. Click the link for the opportunity and in the right hand box on the screen titled: ‘Expression of Interest Window’, please log-in and register your interest in this opportunity. Please follow the instructions to express an interest. You should then receive 2 emails; 1: advising that you have successfully registered your interest; 2: advising you that the documents are now available to download. You will then need to log back into to the portal to access and download the documentation. Please note that by expressing an interest you are Not committing yourself to submit a bid. Bidders are reminded of the steps that must be completed: 1. Ensure that your Organisation is registered on the portal (if not then remember it takes 24hrs for this to turnaround); 2. Express your interest inside the published deadline; 3. Complete and submit the PQQ available from the portal website. All the above steps must be completed inside the published deadline for your application to be considered. Failure to complete any and or all of the above steps will result in your application being be rejected, please ensure that you leave enough time to complete all the steps listed, inside the published deadline. The deadline for PQQ responses in relation to this procurement process is on 17.3.2016 at 12:00. This date may be subject to change at any time and such changes will be notified via the ProContract e-tendering portal.