Official UK procurement notice
North Cumbria Integrated Urgent Dental Access Centre (UDAC)
Authority: North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board (NHS & healthcare)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis is a short term 'interim' emergency contract (under The PSR Regulations 2023) to secure integrated urgent dental access centre provision to better support dental patients with urgent care clinical needs across North Cumbria. It will be fully integrated within existing North Cumbria integrated medical urgent care systems to help ensure that patients with urgent dental care needs presenting into local medical care services can be safely redirected into this service and in doing so protect access to medical care capacity.
Primarily this short term service is being established with the aim of reducing the immediate and increasing dental patient safety and harm risks that are occurring whilst NHS Dentistry general dental access continues to recover within the local area and formal procurement of new general dental access contracts that is being undertaken in parallel during 2024-25 is successfully completed.
These long term contract opportunities can be accessed via Contracts Finder: www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/007552-2024 ↗
CPV: Community health services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Integrated Urgent Dental Access Centre (UDAC)Awarded
Integrated Urgent Dental Access Centre (UDAC)
This is a short term 'interim' emergency contract to secure integrated urgent dental access centre provision to better support dental patients with urgent care clinical needs across North Cumbria. It will be fully integrated within existing North Cumbria integrated medical urgent care systems to help ensure that patients with urgent dental care needs presenting into local medical care services can be safely redirected into this service and in doing so protect access to medical care capacity.
Primarily this short term service is being established with the aim of reducing the immediate and increasing dental patient safety and harm risks that are occurring whilst NHS Dentistry general dental access continues to recover within the local area and formal procurement of new general dental access contracts that is being undertaken in parallel during 2024-25 is successfully completed.
These long term contract opportunities can be accessed via Contracts Finder: www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/007552-2024 ↗
The value of the contract awarded under emergency conditions is £680,160 Year 1 with a further year allowable by exception where patient safety risks remain unaddressed through completion of the parallel procurement during 2024-25 of new general dental access contracts.
[brief description of the services to be provided]
The relevant authority intends to award this contract under the urgent circumstances provision under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award.
The lifetime value of the contract is £680,160.00
Contract Start Date: 01 September 2024
Contract End Date: 31 August 2026
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 29 Apr 2024, 13:58 BST
- Last source update
- 29 Apr 2024, 13:58 BST
- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-013745- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0455c8Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
This contract has been awarded under the urgent circumstances provision of the Provider Selection Regime (PSR). This contract has been awarded under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award.
Publisher note: This contract has been awarded under the urgent circumstances provision of the Provider Selection Regime (PSR). This contract has been awarded under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award. Regulation 14 has been applied because delaying the award of the contract would be likely to pose a risk to patient or public safety. The award is being made by the North East & North Cumbria, Integrated Care Board (NENC ICB), Executive Group as the responsible local commissioner for NHS Dentistry with the responsible lead Executive Director. There were no conflicts of interests identified.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collingwood Surgery | £680,160 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
North Cumbria Integrated Urgent Dental Access Centre (UDAC) · Collingwood Surgery
- Signed
- 25 Apr 2024
- Value
- £680,160
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1bids | — | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Cumbria HealthAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.