NHS England & NHS Improvement - South East Market Briefing: Special Care and Paediatric Dentistry services

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This notice is placed in order to facilitate early engagement with potential providers, and relates only to a pre-procurement market briefing. NHS England & NHS Improvement - South East is seeking to recommission Special Care and Paediatric Dentistry services (currently known as Community Dental Services) in the South East of England and will be conducting a recommissioning process to award new contracts to provide these services from April 2022. We will be commissioning new contracts to deliver Special Care and Paediatric Dentistry services in 5 geographical lots as follows: • Kent • Sussex • Surrey • Hampshire and the Isle of Wight • Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire The recommissioning process is anticipated to commence from January 2021, inviting expressions of interest to deliver services for specific geographic areas, with contract commencement in April 2022. NHS England & NHS Improvement anticipates contracting for services under Personal Dental Services agreements, combined with NHS Standard contracts for General Anaesthetic Procedures). The total annual value of the combined services is anticipated to be in the region of c. £38m. This process is being carried out by NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit (SCW) on behalf of the Commissioners Prospective providers are warmly invited to a pre-procurement market briefing event in November 2020, held virtually through Microsoft Teams on the following date:- 4pm - 6pm Tuesday 24th November 2020 by MS Teams Registrations of interest to attend the event are welcome from providers who may be interested in these services, either in their own right, as a member of a consortium and/or other forms of partnership/multiple-organisation arrangement. In order to attend, please register your interest in attending this Teams briefing by 12 noon on Friday 20th November 2020, including your organisation name and those individuals who will be joining the session. You can do this via the In-Tend Portal at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/scwcsu/aspx/ProjectManage/1090 MS Teams event details will be sent to individuals and organisations who confirm their participation for the session. Providers may also indicate if they would like Commissioners to pass their contact details on to other providers to facilitate partnering/multiple-organisation opportunities.