Official UK procurement notice
NHS East Midlands Integrated Care Boards Dental Commissioning Plans 2026/27
Authority: NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement description*This is a Prior Information Notice (PIN)*<br/><br/>**PLEASE NOTE** This is a second PIN)/Pre-market assessment engagement exercise since the publication of a previous PIN published on 19th February 2026. The Commissioners would like to thank Providers who have already responded to the market engagement questionnaire and can confirm that they are not required to complete this again. <br/><br/>East Midlands Primary Care Team on behalf of the NHS East Midlands Integrated Care Boards (the Commissioners) is carrying out a Pre Market Engagement (PME) exercise for the commissioning of NHS Dental Services and Lincolnshire NHS Primary Care Dentistry supporting Dental Workforce Training and Education.<br/><br/>NHS Arden and Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit (AGCSU) on behalf of NHS East Midlands Integrated Care Boards is placing this Prior Information Notice (PIN) in relation to a pre-procurement market questionnaire regarding the provision of NHS Dental Services and Lincolnshire NHS Primary Care Dentistry supporting Dental Workforce Training and Education. This will be used as a conduit to obtain feedback from the market to ascertain market capability and interest in the opportunity.<br/><br/>NHS East Midlands Integrated Care Boards would like to inform the market and seek feedback on the potential commissioning opportunity for the provision of NHS Dental Services and Lincolnshire NHS Primary Care Dentistry supporting Dental Workforce Training and Education.<br/><br/>The feedback aims to achieve several critical objectives:<br/><br/>
- Assessing Market Capability: Understanding the capability of the market is essential for the commissioners to ensure that the proposed services can be delivered efficiently and effectively. Feedback from providers will help identify any potential challenges or gaps in the market, allowing for adjustments to be made to the procurement strategy or service requirements.<br/><br/>
- Gauge Interest Levels: The feedback process is a crucial step in measuring the level of interest among potential providers. This information helps in planning the procurement process, ensuring sufficient competition, and potentially identifying innovative approaches or solutions from different providers.
CPV: Dental practice and related services · Dental-practice services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The objectives of the dental service would be:Planned
The objectives of the dental service would be:<br/><br/>
- To provide an agreed level of dental access and new NHS dental appointments to communities.<br/>
- To provide NHS dental services to patients who do not have a regular NHS dental care provider including the provision of urgent dental care appointments.<br/>
- To improve the oral health of patients treated.<br/>
- To promote inclusive healthcare and support early intervention, with timely treatment, and oral health advice and develop and deliver targeted oral health programmes.<br/>
- To develop services in line with the evolving strategic approach to primary care dental provision and align with the priorities of the NHS 10 Year Health Plan for England.<br/><br/>We wish to invite suitably qualified and experienced providers to complete this market assessment questionnaire. Providers who wish to express their interest and complete the questionnaire can follow the below link<br/><br/>health-family-contract-search.secure.force.com ↗<br/><br/>Please note the deadline to complete the questionnaire is midnight on 26th April 2026. Additional information: This is purely an early 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.<br/><br/>This is a market testing exercise and does not commit the Commissioners to carry out a procurement process. Current services will remain in place during this period in line with existing contracts and service level agreements.<br/><br/>The procurement will be advertised in accordance with the Provider Selection Regime(PSR) Notice. The awarding of this contract will be subject to the HealthCare Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Procurement Act 2023 will not apply to this award.<br/><br/>The Contracting Authority will be using an eTendering system for this market engagement exercise. To express an interest and access the questionnaire go to the 'Live Opportunities' list on the e-tendering portal at the following<br/>link: health-family-contract-search.secure.force.com ↗ and register your interest.<br/><br/>You can search for the opportunity by entering the following contract reference:<br/><br/>C436709- NHS East Midlands Integrated Care Boards Dental Commissioning Plans 2026/27<br/><br/>Please note the deadline to complete the questionnaire is midnight on 26th April 2026
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board buys Dental practice and related services (CPV 8513), and who usually turns up
NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Dental practice and related services (CPV 8513) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
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Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Here, local means registered in East Midlands.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in East Midlands.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 31 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
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?
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How many bids past lots received.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid0% / 0%
2–317% / 20%
4–639% / 30%
7+44% / 50%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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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.
Below estimate0% / 0%
Within ±2%100% / 100%
Above estimate0% / 0%
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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.
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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 objectives of the dental service would be:CPV 8513Estimate not published
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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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 10 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid0%
2–320%
4–630%
7+50%
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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.
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.
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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.
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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- 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
- 7 Apr 2026, 16:12 BST
- Last source update
- 7 Apr 2026, 16:12 BST
- Authority reference
AG25037- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-031605- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-067d48Find a Tender
How it was run
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- Submission deadline
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Timeline
7 Apr 2026 → 7 Apr 2026 · 2 dates- Tender notice expected199 days ago7 Apr 2026, 00:00 BST
- Notice published198 days ago7 Apr 2026, 16:12 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications
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