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title: "Northamptonshire Community Dental Service [Direct Award Process A]"
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# Northamptonshire Community Dental Service [Direct Award Process A]
Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/northamptonshire-community-dental-service-direct-award-process-a-ocds-h6vhtk-05510d). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.
> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board: "Northamptonshire Community Dental Service [Direct Award Process A]". Published status: complete. Published Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/nhs-northamptonshire-integrated-care-board-nhs-qpm)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Dental practice and related services
- **Delivery Location:** UKF2
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £5,200,000 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-05510d`
## 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/northamptonshire-community-dental-service-direct-award-process-a-ocds-h6vhtk-05510d#tl-md)
## Description
The Northamptonshire Community Dental Service delivers dental services to patients who are unable to access primary care dentistry e.g. patients who may have special needs, learning disabilities, significant health problems etc. Patients are referred into the service and need to meet clinical criteria to be accepted. Services provided cover mandatory services, Oral Health Promotion, Epidemiology, Domiciliary Visits, GA pathway for children and special care patients and sedation. The current annual contract value is circa £2.6m following annual uplifts.
Currently the nature of the service mean there are no realistic alternative providers, due to the provider operates an integrated workforce model to deliver their portfolio of services. It would not be viable to manage TUPE arrangements to an alternative provider to ensure continuity of service provision. Current provision is from within the providers existing estates in hospital setting as well delivering services from Health Centres across Northamptonshire. Part of the services in rural areas use shared accommodation and support services that provide efficiencies that would not be possible for standalone services, and these dependencies would not be possible under another provider at this time without detrimental impact to patient care and service delivery.
## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **Delivery regions:** UKF
- **Description:** The Northamptonshire Community Dental Service delivers dental services to patients who are unable to access primary care dentistry e.g. patients who may have special needs, learning disabilities, significant health problems etc. Patients are referre...
- **Options published:** yes
## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 034121-2025-1 (active)
- Supplier(s): **Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust**
- Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-185197`
- Value: £5,200,000 † (exc. VAT)
> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.
## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** 034121-2025-1 (active)
- Signed Value: £5,200,000
- Signed Date: 29/03/2024
## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F034121-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-06-20T14:05:27.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-22T10:31:07.342Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-05510d