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Type of document: Pre-information procedures
Country: United Kingdom
OJEU Ref: (2018/S 090-203063/EN)
Nature of contract: Service contract
Procedure: Not applicable
Regulation of procurement: EU
Type of bid required: Not applicable

Prior information notice without call for competition
Services
Directive 2014/24/EU

This notice is for prior information only
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1) Name and addresses
Official name: Arden and Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit
Postal address: 10 Nottingham Road
Town: Derby
Postal code: DE1 3QT
Country: United Kingdom
Email: Neelam.Saroe@ardengemcsu.nhs.uk
Internet address(es):
Main address:
Address of the buyer profile:

Additional information can be obtained from:
the above mentioned address
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
I.5) Main activity
Health

Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement:
II.1.1) Title: Community Dental Services — Lot 1 Derbyshire and Lot 2 Nottinghamshire

Reference number: PQQ 491
II.1.2) Main CPV code: 85130000
II.1.3) Type of contract: Services
II.1.4) Short Description:
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 contracts shall run from 1.4.2019 for duration of 4 years and 11 months under a PDS contract.
The contracts will be offered in 2 lots each with an anticipated contract value per annum of:
Lot 1: Derbyshire – 5 750 000 GBP.
Lot 2: Nottinghamshire — 4 870 000 GBP.
NHS England (North Midlands) is inviting suitably qualified Providers to a market engagement event taking place on 23.5.2018 at 2:00 pm in Mansfield (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, the deadline for comments and registering for the event is 18.5.2018.
II.1.6) Information about lots:
The contract is divided into lots: Yes
II.2) Description:
II.2.1) Title: Community Dental Services

Lot No:Lot 1 Derbyshire
II.2.2)Additional CPV code(s)
Main CPV code: 85130000

II.2.3) Place of performance
Nuts code: UKF1
Main site or place of performance:
Derbyshire.

II.2.4) Description of the procurement
The services are 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 Services will be to improve the oral health and reduce the oral health inequalities of people in Derbyshire 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.
In addition the service will:
— Deliver the fieldwork for Public Health England’s Dental Public Health Epidemiology Programme where commissioned for local authorities.
II.2.5) Award criteria

II.2.1) Title: Community Dental Services

Lot No:Lot 2 Nottinghamshire
II.2.2)Additional CPV code(s)
Main CPV code: 85130000

II.2.3) Place of performance
Nuts code: UKF1
Main site or place of performance:
Nottinghamshire.

II.2.4) Description of the procurement
The services are 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 Services will be to improve the oral health and reduce the oral health inequalities of people in 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.
In addition the service will:
— Deliver the fieldwork for Public Health England’s Dental Public Health Epidemiology Programme where commissioned for local authorities.
II.2.5) Award criteria

II.3) Estimated date of publication of contract notice:2018-06-05
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description

IV.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement(GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: no
IV.2) Administrative information

Section VI: Complementary information
VI.2) Information about electronic workflows
VI.3) Additional information:
If your organisation is interested in providing these Services as set out above and attending the Market Engagement event scheduled to take place on 23.5.2018 in Mansfield at 2:00 pm (venue to be confirmed) please see the following instructions below to confirm a place.
1) Express an interest by:
a) logging into the Arden and GEM CSU e-Tendering portal
(registration and use of the website is free of charge).
b) Selecting respond to advert and PQQ 491)
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 10:00 am on 18.5.2018. 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 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.

VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice:2018-05-09

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