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title: "Long Acting Reversible Contraception in Primary Care Settings DPS"
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# Long Acting Reversible Contraception in Primary Care Settings DPS

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/long-acting-reversible-contraception-in-primary-care-settings-dps-ocds-h6vhtk-04c63c). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Kent County Council: "Long Acting Reversible Contraception in Primary Care Settings DPS". Published status: active. Dynamic Market Estimate: Value not published. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 30 Nov 2025, 23:55 GMT. Published submission portal: procontract.due-north.com.

## Key Information
- **Status:** ACTIVE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Kent County Council](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/kent-county-council-ons-e10000016)
- **Dynamic Market Estimate (lifetime call-offs):** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** 30 November 2025 at 23:55 GMT
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Restricted procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** General-practitioner services
- **Delivery Location:** UKJ4
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-04c63c`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/long-acting-reversible-contraception-in-primary-care-settings-dps-ocds-h6vhtk-04c63c#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [procontract.due-north.com](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fprocontract.due-north.com%2FAdvert%2FIndex%3FadvertId%3D43cdd9df-d78d-ee11-8125-005056b64545)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/long-acting-reversible-contraception-in-primary-care-settings-dps-ocds-h6vhtk-04c63c#participate

## Description
As required under the Provider Selection Regime Regulation 13(5), this is a notice of extension of the existing DPS (now managed under Direct Award B) by a further year until 30th November 2025.
Kent County Council is procuring through Primary Care, the fitting, monitoring, checking,
and removal of intrauterine devices (IUDs), intrauterine systems (IUSs) and sub-dermal
implants (SDIs), collectively known as long-acting reversible contraception (LARC), for
contraceptive purposes only. The Council is aiming to procure a service which is available in
each Kent geographical Primary Care Network area, to ensure access for services
throughout the county.
The service will be provided in primary care settings across Kent, by practitioners who hold
valid and up-to-date Letters of Competence (LoC), as issued by the Faculty of Sexual and
Reproductive Healthcare (FSRH), for the procedures undertaken, or
by potential providers who have suitability to pursue the professional activity, including the
ability to:
- achieve and maintain competence to deliver LARC as specified by the FSRH as part of a
primary care pathway.
- have appropriate treatment rooms and facilities for delivery of LARC as specified by FSRH
latest clinical guidance, within each geographical GP PCN/ neighbourhood quadrant.
- ensure that patients with needs relating to uncomplicated STIs should have their care
managed by appropriately skilled healthcare professionals, as defined by the latest
standards specified by the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH).

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** active

- **Delivery regions:** UKJ

- **Contract Period:** 01/12/2023 to 30/11/2025

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F039866-2024)
- **Last Source Update:** 2024-12-11T10:32:52.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-31T12:14:51.389Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-04c63c