Official UK procurement notice
Urgent Dental Care Phase 2 Barnet
Authority: NHS England (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionDirect Award C to: Mill Hill Dental for the borough of Barnet.
The Authority will use the existing pathway for the development and delivery of a pan-London
face-to-face UDC service. The description below provides an outline of the main features of
that pathway and the services that will be commissioned under this procurement to support
the delivery of the service.
The model requires:
- Patients to be clinically triaged
- Patients to access the UDC service via NHS 111
- Patients to be triaged by The Authority's commissioned dental triage service
- Subject to meeting the acceptance criteria, patients to be allocated appointment slots by
the dental triage service
- Patient details to be shared with the UDC Provider via NHS.net email which will include
appointment time, medical history and a brief description of symptoms (there is a possibility
that the sharing of patient details may change in the future if an electronic referral system is
implemented)
CPV: Health and social work services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The service will provide urgent dental care for the local population and those…Awarded
The service will provide urgent dental care for the local population and those visiting London
from neighbouring regions or overseas, referred to hereafter as London residents.
The objectives of the procurement are to secure services which will:
- Provide a good quality UDC service during the times specified for the specific lot
- Provide good quality care through the consistent use of clinical treatment protocols
including the Faculty of General Dental Practice protocols on antimicrobial prescribing
- Ensure that all patients with an urgent dental need have access to a clinical contact at an
appropriate time
- Ensure that the UDC service works within a 'whole system' approach in providing urgent
dental care
- Foster innovation and continuous improvement in all aspects of the delivery of the UDC
service across London
- Enable and support patients to access general, intermediate and specialist dentistry in
order to stabilise patients' oral health needs in line with current good practice, i.e. Avoidance
of doubt: Provision of Phased Treatments www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads ↗
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- Support patients to stabilise their oral health where necessary
- Enable equitable access to all patients with services not compromised by physical (physical
ill-health, learning disabilities, medically compromised, children looked after etc) language,
social and economic barriers
- Provide preventive evidence-based oral health advice according to Delivering Better Oral
Health 2021 and in line with Making Every Contact Count
- Provide agreed data recording (including non-attendance) at scheduled intervals to ensure
the clinical service is meeting the needs of the population
- Ensure UDC services provide best value for money
Start date: 1st July 2024 5+2 contract end date 30 June 2031
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
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 22 May 2024, 16:24 BST
- Last source update
- 6 Jun 2024, 13:18 BST
- Authority reference
PRJ2005- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-017603- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0469cfFind a Tender
- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intention to award notice. The awarding of this contract is subject to 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 publication of this notice marks the start of the standstill period. Representations by providers must be made to the relevant authority by 05 June 2024. This contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award under the PSR
Publisher note: An UDCH is required in every borough of London, following the earlier UDC PRJ1205 tender we have 5 further boroughs that we would like to Procure those services for. Procurement will be following the new PSR (Provider Selection Regime) Direct Award C route and Award to Mill Hill Dental practice
Notice history
2 releases on Find a TenderPublished amendments (1)
This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) confirmation of contract award notice. 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. This contract has now been formally awarded using direct award process C. - Date of Contract Award:…
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mill Hill Dental Practice | £5,582,304 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 016221-2024-1 · Mill Hill Dental Practice
- Signed
- 22 May 2024
- Value
- £5,582,304
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1bids | — | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- NHS North East London Integrated Care Board LondonReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Mill Hill Dental PracticeAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.