Find a TenderPlanned procurement
Published 11 Jun 2026, 11:33 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Clinical Lead Associate Dentist (Contract for Services)

Authority: University of East Anglia (Education)

Services
Planned pipeline value£400,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 8 Jul 2026from the planned procurement notice

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Opportunity to join a unique university dental practice.

An exceptional opportunity has arisen for an experienced Clinical Lead Associate Dentist to join the University of East Anglia's on-campus Dental Practice.

CPV: Dental-practice services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1The PracticePlanned

The Practice

Located in a modern, purpose-built Health & Community Centre at the heart of the university campus, the practice offers:

  • Large, stable, and consistently busy patient base
  • Fully supported by experienced dental nursing and administrative teams
  • Collaborative environment alongside medical and wellbeing services
  • Opportunity to engage with a developing university dental training programme

What we're looking for

  • GDC registered Dentist with Performer Number
  • Recognised Dental Qualification
  • Experience work in NHS and/or private practice
  • Strong understanding of current clinical standards, compliance, and best practice
  • Proven ability to deliver high-quality NHS (and private) dental care
  • Provide day-to-day clinical leadership and supervision
  • Help shape and improve clinical standards and patient care
Delivery: East of England

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How University of East Anglia buys Dental practice and related services (CPV 8513), and who usually turns up

University of East Anglia’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Dental practice and related services (CPV 8513) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerUniversity of East Anglia · division 85
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

How often small and medium firms win.

Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.

The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 3 of 7 known-size awards · market: CPV 8513 · East of England, n=59
43%90%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

How often local firms win similar work.

Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.

Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in East of England.

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 4 of 7 known-location awards · market: CPV 8513 · East of England, n=83
57%76%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
i

How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.

Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no decision dates published · market: CPV 8513 · UK-wide, n=5
—31 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 31 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.

Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.

The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.

Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: exactly 5 of 6 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 8513 · East of England, n=75
83%79%

Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.

How many bids did past lots attract?

i

How many bids past lots received.

Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.

Past bids do not predict this tender.

Last 36 months.

This buyer9 lots with bid counts · all categories
0% had one bid
The market13 lots with bid counts · CPV 8513 · East of England
31% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid0% / 31%
Buyer: 0 of 9 lots with published bid counts. Market: 4 of 13 lots with published bid counts.
2–367% / 31%
Buyer: 6 of 9 lots with published bid counts. Market: 4 of 13 lots with published bid counts.
4–622% / 31%
Buyer: 2 of 9 lots with published bid counts. Market: 4 of 13 lots with published bid counts.
7+11% / 8%
Buyer: 1 of 9 lots with published bid counts. Market: 1 of 13 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i

Where winning prices landed against estimates.

Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.

Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.

Last 36 months.

This buyer5 lots with estimate and award · all categories
100% below estimate
The market8 lots with estimate and award · CPV 8513 · East of England
75% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate100% / 75%
Buyer: 5 of 5 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 6 of 8 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%0% / 13%
Buyer: 0 of 5 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 1 of 8 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate0% / 13%
Buyer: 0 of 5 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 1 of 8 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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What past awards tell you about each lot.

See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.

No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.

Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list

Lot #1The PracticeCPV 8513Published estimate£400k
Expected competition
i

How many bids this lot may attract.

The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.

Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 13 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet31% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 13 similar lots
1 bid31%
4 of 13 similar past lots received 1 bid (31%).
2–331%
4 of 13 similar past lots received 2–3 (31%).
4–631%
4 of 13 similar past lots received 4–6 (31%).
7+8%
1 of 13 similar past lots received 7+ (8%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 2 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

Where the award price may land.

The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.

No comparable awards for this lot yet.

A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £400k, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
i

Who has done similar work for this buyer.

Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.

A past supplier may not bid again.

No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.

Who could compete for this lot?
i

Who could compete for this lot?

Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.

None is confirmed as a bidder.

Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.

About this data
  • Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
  • Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
  • Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
  • Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record · publisher note attached
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
11 Jun 2026, 11:33 BST
Last source update
11 Jun 2026, 11:33 BST
Authority reference
PURCON 5121
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-055098
Classification (CPV)
Dental-practice services
Delivery area
East of England (UKH15)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06b2aa Find a Tender

Publisher note: This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intended approach notice. The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Procurement Act 2023 do not apply to this award. The intention is to award a contract following the Most Suitable Provider Process. The award of the contract will be decided by suitably qualified individuals including: Dental Practice Manager and Director of Commercial Services. University of East Anglia will be guided by the five key criteria outlined in the NHS Provider Selection Regime for assessment of submission(s) in this process to select a suitable provider the under Most Suitable Provider route. These criteria are: 1. Quality and innovation 2. Value 3. Integration, collaboration and service sustainability 4. Improving access and reducing health inequalities 5. Social value For further information regarding this opportunity please contact [email protected]

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

11 Jun 2026 → 8 Jul 2026 · 2 dates
  1. Notice published135 days ago
    11 Jun 2026, 11:33 BST
  2. Tender notice expected109 days ago
    8 Jul 2026, 00:00 BST

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Pipeline notice
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA

Contracting authorityEducationUniversityEducation GB-COH: RC000651 Norwich Research Park, Norwich, East of England, NR47TJContact email Published organisation website ↗

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.