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Official UK procurement notice

Procurement for the provision of a Postgraduate Dental Education Framework Agreement

Official notice

Authority: Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) (Central government)

Framework agreement6 lotsServicesOpen procedureSME suitable
Framework ceiling (notional)£500,000total for 6 lots · framework ceiling, not attributable revenue
Submissions closed 3 Jul 2023awarded 14 Aug 2023
Lots 6see the lot list below
Framework period 3 yrsends 31 Jul 2026 · extension options published · starts 1 Aug 2023

What is being bought6 lots · detail below

Published requirement description

Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) plays a leading role in the education, training, development, and shaping of the healthcare workforce in Wales to ensure the delivery of a high quality of care for the people of Wales.

The Dental Deanery in HEIW supports postgraduate education and training for the whole dental workforce in Wales. This includes Dental Foundation, Dental Core and Dental Specialty training for Dentists, Dental Foundation for Therapists, and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for all dental team members as defined by the General Dental Council (GDC). The Dental Postgraduate Section of HEIW have sought to commission speakers to deliver the education and training of Dental Foundation of Core trainees and all dental team members across Wales, which will include:

Dental Foundation Training; Dental Core Training; Welsh Dental Therapy Foundation Training; Continuing Professional Development; and Performers List Validation by Experience.

The primary objectives of this procurement are to:

  • Develop and establish a framework consisting of suitably qualified, financially robust Service Providers to meet quality and service criteria.
  • Ensure consistent high-quality Service provision
  • Establish key performance indicators, performance monitoring/outcome measures
  • Recurrence: This services may be retendered prior to the expiry of the contract.

CPV: Education and training services · Higher education services

How this framework works

From the published notice
Bids received
11 bids on the busiest of 6 lots · 13 suppliers appointed
Framework period
3 yrs from 1 Aug 2023

Lots and requirements (6)Procurement structure

6 lots · no lot values published · same evaluation weights on every lot
Lot #1Lot 1, North Wales (Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board)AwardedRenewal 3 yrs

Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) plays a leading role in the education, training, development and shaping of the healthcare workforce in Wales to ensure the delivery of a high quality of care for the people of Wales.

The Dental Deanery in HEIW supports postgraduate education and training for the whole dental workforce in Wales.

For Lot 1 HEIW sought to procure the following education:

Adhesive Dentistry

Complete Dentures

Composites

Crown and Bridge

Dental Photography

Dental Treatment planning

Effective Emergency Care in GDP

Endodontics

Occlusion

Partial Dentures

Periodontics

Tooth wear

This education will be for the area of North Wales and will be delivered Face-to-Face with Online Elements.

Contract period: 1 Aug 2023 – 31 Jul 2026 (3 yrs)
Delivery: Wales
Extensions: This contract will be subject to renewal at the discretion of the Contracting Authority. The Contracting Authority may exercise its option to extend for a further 12 months.Variant bids: not allowed
Lot #2Lot 2, Mid Wales (Powys Teaching Health Board)AwardedRenewal 3 yrs

Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) plays a leading role in the education, training, development and shaping of the healthcare workforce in Wales to ensure the delivery of a high quality of care for the people of Wales.

The Dental Deanery in HEIW supports postgraduate education and training for the whole dental workforce in Wales.

For Lot 2 HEIW sought to procure the following education:

Adhesive Dentistry

Complete Dentures

Composites

Crown and Bridge

Dental Photography

Dental Treatment planning

Effective Emergency Care in GDP

Endodontics

Occlusion

Partial Dentures

Periodontics

Tooth wear

This education will be for the area of Mid Wales and will be delivered Face-to-Face with Online Elements.

Contract period: 1 Aug 2023 – 31 Jul 2026 (3 yrs)
Delivery: Wales
Extensions: This contract will be subject to renewal at the discretion of the Contracting Authority. The Contracting Authority may exercise its option to extend for a further 12 months.Variant bids: not allowed
Lot #3Lot 3, South Wales (Aneurin Bevan; Cardiff & Vale and Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board)AwardedRenewal 3 yrs

Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) plays a leading role in the education, training, development and shaping of the healthcare workforce in Wales to ensure the delivery of a high quality of care for the people of Wales.

The Dental Deanery in HEIW supports postgraduate education and training for the whole dental workforce in Wales.

For Lot 3 HEIW sought to procure the following education:

Adhesive Dentistry

Complete Dentures

Composites

Crown and Bridge

Dental Photography

Dental Treatment planning

Effective Emergency Care in GDP

Endodontics

Occlusion

Partial Dentures

Periodontics

Tooth wear

This education will be for the area of South Wales and will be delivered Face-to-Face with Online Elements.

Contract period: 1 Aug 2023 – 31 Jul 2026 (3 yrs)
Delivery: Wales
Extensions: This contract will be subject to renewal at the discretion of the Contracting Authority. The Contracting Authority may exercise its option to extend for a further 12 months.Variant bids: not allowed
Lot #4Lot 4, West Wales (Swansea Bay and Hywel Dda University Health Board)AwardedRenewal 3 yrs

Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) plays a leading role in the education, training, development and shaping of the healthcare workforce in Wales to ensure the delivery of a high quality of care for the people of Wales.

The Dental Deanery in HEIW supports postgraduate education and training for the whole dental workforce in Wales.

For Lot 4 HEIW sought to procure the following education:

Adhesive Dentistry

Complete Dentures

Composites

Crown and Bridge

Dental Photography

Dental Treatment planning

Effective Emergency Care in GDP

Endodontics

Occlusion

Partial Dentures

Periodontics

Tooth wear

This education will be for the area of West Wales and will be delivered Face-to-Face with Online Elements.

Contract period: 1 Aug 2023 – 31 Jul 2026 (3 yrs)
Delivery: Wales
Extensions: This contract will be subject to renewal at the discretion of the Contracting Authority. The Contracting Authority may exercise its option to extend for a further 12 months.Variant bids: not allowed
Lot #5Lot 5, All Wales, delivered via Synchronous LearningAwardedRenewal 3 yrs

Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) plays a leading role in the education, training, development and shaping of the healthcare workforce in Wales to ensure the delivery of a high quality of care for the people of Wales.

The Dental Deanery in HEIW supports postgraduate education and training for the whole dental workforce in Wales.

For Lot 5 HEIW sought to procure the following education:

Adhesive Dentistry

Complete Dentures

Composites

Crown and Bridge

Dental Photography

Dental Treatment planning

Effective Emergency Care in GDP

Endodontics

Occlusion

Partial Dentures

Periodontics

Tooth wear

Autism awareness

Communication and dealing with complaints

CVs, Personal Marketing and Interview Techniques

Deaf awareness and sign language

Disability awareness

Dyslexia awareness

Health and Safety

Managing change in the dental profession

Managing stress and maintaining performance

Mental Health Awareness

Risk assessment

Safeguarding Adults (Level 2)

Safeguarding Children (Level 2)

Supporting behaviour change

This education will be an All Wales agreement and will be delivered via Synchronous Learning.

Contract period: 1 Aug 2023 – 31 Jul 2026 (3 yrs)
Delivery: Wales
Extensions: This contract will be subject to renewal at the discretion of the Contracting Authority. The Contracting Authority may exercise its option to extend for a further 12 months.Variant bids: not allowed
Lot #6Lot 6, All Wales, delivered Face-to-Face with Online Elements.AwardedRenewal 3 yrs

Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) plays a leading role in the education, training, development and shaping of the healthcare workforce in Wales to ensure the delivery of a high quality of care for the people of Wales.

The Dental Deanery in HEIW supports postgraduate education and training for the whole dental workforce in Wales.

For Lot 6 HEIW sought to procure the following education:

Module 1: Adult Learning, Roles, and Responsibilities

Module 2: Delivering Effective Tutorials

Module 3: Assessment and Feedback

Module 4: Relationships, Challenges and Conflict

This education will be an All Wales agreement and will be delivered Face-to-Face with Online Elements.

Contract period: 1 Aug 2023 – 31 Jul 2026 (3 yrs)
Delivery: Wales
Extensions: This contract will be subject to renewal at the discretion of the Contracting Authority. The Contracting Authority may exercise its option to extend for a further 12 Months.Variant bids: not allowed

What it takes to win
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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 more
How bids were scored · same split on all 6 lots
Quality: 100%
Published award criteria (2)
  • Quality: 100
  • Price: 0
What this means for your bid
  • “Procurement for the provision of a Postgraduate Dental Education…” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.

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
Awarded
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Framework agreement
Who may use this agreement
Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Yes (GPA)
Recurring procurement
Yes · This services may be retendered prior to the expiry of the contract.
First published
9 Jun 2023, 16:26 BST
Last source update
13 Sept 2023, 15:17 BST
Award evaluation window
26 Jun 2023 – …
FTS notice number
2023/S 000-027114
Classification (CPV)
Education and training servicesHigher education services
Delivery area
Wales (UKL)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-03d53a Find a Tender
Contract terms
Electronic trading
e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment
Performance terms

as stated within the procurement documents.

Publisher note: These are Light Touch services, the procurement procedure followed was a procedure akin to the Open Procedure. The Framework will remain open throughout its lifetime to allow - on an annual basis - (i) new entrants to the market (prospective Bidders) to seek appointment onto the Framework, (ii) existing Framework Providers to seek appointment onto the Framework in relation to different, or additional Lots to those for which they were originally appointed onto the Framework. Please see below for refresh dates- ITT 103365: - 1st August 2024, [responses by 26th June 2024] - 1st August 2025, [responses by 26th June 2025] - 1st August 2026, [responses by 26th June 2026] * *In the event the Framework Agreement is extended This is a non-committal Framework Agreement for the period of three years with an option to extend for one year The usage is undefined and is applicable across all lots. For bidders who wish to seek appointment onto the Framework - please follow the below process for future refresh dates: Bidders are free to submit bids in respect of any number of Lots. Bidders to note they will need to submit only once against the pre-disclosed evaluation criteria set out in the ITT, which will be evaluated once and scoring will be applied to all the lots bidders apply for. To complete your formal proposal, please access the ITT via the Bravo eTender Wales portal where you will find a full suite of tender documentation. 1. Register your company: https://etenderwales.bravosolution.co.uk and click the link to register. 2. Express and Interest in the tender: - Click ‘ITT Open to all suppliers’ - Click ITT_ 103365 and express interest - This will move the ITT into your ‘my ITTs page’ - You can access any attachments by clicking ‘buyer attachments’ in the ‘ITT details’ box 3. Responding to the tender - Click ‘my response’ under ‘ITT details’. You can choose to ‘create response’ or ‘decline to respond’ - You can now use the messages function to communicate with HEIW (WA Ref:134082)

How it was run

Official notice
Run through: Jaggaer · Who buys & how to bid on Sell2Wales
Supplier login requiredLanguage: EN, CY
Access & registration note: Free; latest Chrome/Edge/Firefox only — corporate browsers fail
Appointment period ends
3 Jul 2023, 12:00 BST
Submission channel
{"electronicSubmission"}
Accepted languages
en, cy
Bids opened
26 Jun 2023, 12:00 BST
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

Timeline

26 Jun 2023 → 13 Sept 2023 · 4 dates
  1. Bids opened
    26 Jun 2023, 12:00 BST
  2. Admission / appointment period endsperiod end, not a bid countdown
    3 Jul 2023, 12:00 BST
  3. Contract starts
    1 Aug 2023, 00:00 BST
  4. Notice published
    13 Sept 2023, 15:17 BST

Notice history

2 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 19 Jun 2023
  1. Deadline moved to 3 Jul 2023, 12:00 BST
    19 Jun 2023, 12:24 BST
    +7 days · was 26 Jun 2023, 12:00 BST
  2. Status changed to complete
    13 Sept 2023, 15:17 BST
Published amendments (1 · 1 deadline change)
WhenWhatBeforeAfterShift
—DeadlineTime limit · IV.2.226 Jun 20233 Jul 2023+7 d
—Bid openingConditions for opening of tenders · IV.2.726 Jun 20233 Jul 2023+7 d

Please be advised the closing date of the tender has been extended to the 3rd July 2023.

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Suppliers appointed 13admitted to the panel · see the list ↓
Bids received 1111 from SMEs · busiest of 6 lots
Contracts signed 6latest 14 Aug 2023

6 suppliers are admitted to this framework without individual award values or dates, see the supplier list below.

Contracts

All 6 of these contracts carry the same published figure, £500,000, the framework's maximum for the whole notice, not each contract's own value. They are not eleven separate sums.

  • Lot 5, All Wales, delivered via Synchronous Learning

    Signed
    14 Aug 2023
    Value
    ceiling above
    Period
    … – 31 Jul 2026
    Status
    active
  • Lot 2, Mid Wales (Powys Teaching Health Board)

    Signed
    14 Aug 2023
    Value
    ceiling above
    Period
    … – 31 Jul 2026
    Status
    active
  • Lot 3, South Wales (Aneurin Bevan; Cardiff & Vale and Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board)

    Signed
    14 Aug 2023
    Value
    ceiling above
    Period
    … – 31 Jul 2026
    Status
    active
  • Lot 4, West Wales (Swansea Bay and Hywel Dda University Health Board)

    Signed
    14 Aug 2023
    Value
    ceiling above
    Period
    … – 31 Jul 2026
    Status
    active
  • Lot 1, North Wales (Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board)

    Signed
    14 Aug 2023
    Value
    ceiling above
    Period
    … – 31 Jul 2026
    Status
    active
  • Lot 6, All Wales, delivered Face-to-Face with Online Elements.

    Signed
    14 Aug 2023
    Value
    ceiling above
    Period
    … – 31 Jul 2026
    Status
    active

Bid statistics published by the authority

LotBidsSMEVCSEValid bid range
1 · Lot 1, North Wales (Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board)6bids · 6 electronic · 6 from abroad6——
2 · Lot 2, Mid Wales (Powys Teaching Health Board)8bids · 8 electronic · 8 from abroad8——
3 · Lot 3, South Wales (Aneurin Bevan; Cardiff & Vale and Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board)8bids · 8 electronic · 8 from abroad8——
4 · Lot 4, West Wales (Swansea Bay and Hywel Dda University Health Board)8bids · 8 electronic · 8 from abroad8——
5 · Lot 5, All Wales, delivered via Synchronous Learning11bids · 11 electronic · 11 from abroad11——
6 · Lot 6, All Wales, delivered Face-to-Face with Online Elements.1bids · 1 electronic · 1 from abroad1——

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW)

Contracting authorityCentral GovernmentBody governed by public lawHealth Nantgarw, South East Wales, Cardiff, UK, CF15 7QQContact name, email, phone Published organisation website ↗

Dispute resolution & review bodies

  • High CourtReview body LondonContact phone

Framework contractors & participating bidders

13 commercial parties on the notice
  • 3DDentistryFramework contractor The Pines, Heol Y Forlan, Cardiff, Wales, CF141AXContact phone
  • A to One LtdFramework contractor The Pines, Heol y Forlan, Cardiff, UK, CF141AXContact phone
  • Bradgate House LTDFramework contractor 57 Bushey Way, Beckenham, London, BR36THContact phone
  • Children in WalesFramework contractor 21 Windsor Place, Cardiff, Wales, CF103BYContact phone
  • David LewisFramework contractor 66 Tatham Road, Llanishen, Cardiff, Wales, CF145FBContact phone
  • Dentcom TrainingFramework contractor 137 Southdown Road, Portslade, Brighton, UK, BN412HJContact phone
  • Esther BrewerFramework contractor Penyradwy House West, Pontsticill, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, CF482TUContact phone
  • Healthcare InteractFramework contractor 146 Heol Gabriel, Cardiff, Wales, CF141JYContact phone
  • Hill Dental ConsultingFramework contractor Celtic House, Caxton Place, Cardiff, Wales, cf238haContact phone
  • P.WestonFramework contractor Church Close, Walton Pool Lane, Clent, Stourbridge, West Midlands, DY99PJContact phone
Show 3 more suppliers
  • PerioCoursesFramework contractor 4 Acrefield Park, Woolton, Liverpool, UK, L256JXContact phone
  • Rumney EndodonticsFramework contractor 774 Newport Road, Cardiff, UK, CF34FGContact phone
  • Unicornium Ltd.Framework contractor Kandy Lodge Dental Surgery, High Street, Ruabon, Wrexham, UK, LL146NHContact phone

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Tender pack and attachments

  • Technical selection criteriatenderTechnical selection criteria
  • Economic and financial selection criteriatenderEconomic and financial selection criteria