Official UK procurement notice
NHSE1085 - Dental Clinical Assessment Booking Service (DCABS)
Authority: NHS Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) (NHS & healthcare)·Consortium: 2 public authorities
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNorth of England Commissioning Support (NECS) is a commissioning support service working for and on behalf of NHS Humber and Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (the Relevant Authority) who are undertaking a competition to provide Dental Clinical Assessment (advice) and Booking Service (DCABS).
The Dental Clinical Advice & Booking Service (DCABS) is a key component of the Yorkshire & Humber integrated urgent care system operating 365 days per year, 24 hours a day.
The Service ensures callers (aged 5 years and over) to the NHS111 dental line are triaged, assessing the caller's need for urgent dental care using the national dental urgent care module; deliver advice and book appointments directly for urgent dental treatment where clinically necessary with urgent dental treatment providers. The service adopts a 'Consult and Complete' approach to service delivery with clinical advice provided by appropriately trained staff and appropriate onward referral.
In addition, receive patients via NHS111 online assessed as having an urgent dental problem requiring a call back to make an appointment.
Also, receive calls transferred by warm transfer from NHS111 for patients under 5 or dental callers who have been identified through the full NHS Pathways as having an urgent dental problem and who will require an appointment with an urgent dental care provider.
Contract Start Date: 01 April 2027
Contract End Date: 31 March 2034
The contract term is for an initial period of 5 years, with an option to extend for a further 2 years at the discretion of the Relevant Authority and subject to satisfactory contractual and financial performance.
CPV: Health and social work services · In communication technology
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Renewal
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How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (5)
- Quality and Innovation: 27%
- Improving Access, Reducing Health Inequalities and Facilitating Choice: 18%
- price: 10%
- Social Value: 10%
- Integration, Collaboration and Service Sustainability: 35%
Published award criteria (5)
- Integration, Collaboration and Service Sustainability: 35%
- Quality and Innovation: 27%
- Improving Access, Reducing Health Inequalities and Facilitating Choice: 18%
- Social Value: 10%
- Price: 10%
- Price carries 10 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 1 point. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 15 Apr 2026, 11:12 BST
- Last source update
- 3 Aug 2026, 09:26 BST
- Award evaluation window
- 4 Sept 2026 – …
- Authority reference
NHSE1085- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-073001- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0682b7Find a Tender
Publisher note: NECS is utilising an electronic tendering tool to manage this competition and communicate with potential providers. Accordingly, there will be no hard copy documents issued to potential providers and all communications with NECS, including response submissions, will be conducted via the Atamis portal at: https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome It is free to register on the portal and it can be accessed at any time of day providing you have a working internet connection. Should providers have any queries, or are having problems registering on the portal; they should contact the Atamis helpdesk via: [email protected] or phone number 0800 0988201 The helpdesk is open Monday - Friday between 08.00 am - 06.00 pm If TUPE applicable The "Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006" as amended by the "Collective Redundancies and Transfer of Undertaking (Protection of Employment) (Amendment) Regulation 2014" (TUPE) may apply to this contract. However, Providers are advised to obtain their own legal advice and carry out due diligence including the New Fair Deal non-statutory policy setting out how pensions issues are to be dealt with when staff are compulsorily transferred from the public sector to independent providers delivering public services
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 4 Sept 2026, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission","written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bids opened
- 4 Sept 2026, 13:00 BST
Timeline
18 Jun 2026 → 4 Sept 2026 · 4 dates- Next notice expected132 days ago18 Jun 2026, 00:00 BST
- Notice published86 days ago3 Aug 2026, 09:26 BST
- Submission deadline54 days ago4 Sept 2026, 12:00 BST
- Bids opened54 days ago4 Sept 2026, 13:00 BST
Notice history
5 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 3 Aug 2026- Published value published: £25,539,2413 Aug 2026, 09:26 BST
- Status changed to active3 Aug 2026, 09:26 BST
- Procurement method changed3 Aug 2026, 09:26 BST
- Deadline published: 4 Sept 2026, 12:00 BST3 Aug 2026, 09:26 BST
- Buyer details updated3 Aug 2026, 09:26 BST
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeConsortium members and other public bodies
- NHS Humber North Yorkshire Integrated Care BoardContracting authorityBody governed by public lawHealth
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- NHS Humber and Yorkshire Integrated Care BoardReview body
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.