NHSE456 RFI Dental Clinical Assessment & Booking Service

North of England Commissioning Support is working for and on behalf of NHS England (North) Yorkshire & the Humber (the Contracting Authority) and is managing this procurement process.

This tender opportunity is for the provision of a Dental Clinical Assessment & Booking Service. The contract term will be for an initial period of 5 years commencing 01 April 2019 with an option to extend for a further 24 months, subject to satisfactory contractual and financial performance and at the discretion of the Contracting Authority.

The financial threshold for the contract term is £7,514,850.

The Contracting Authority is issuing this Prior Information Notice (PIN) as a Request for Information (RFI), to engage with the market and to gather information in order to gain a better understanding of both the capacity and appetite of the market in delivering the proposed services, and to alert the market to a future tender opportunity.

It is important to note that this PIN/RFI is not a call for competition and as such you will need to express your interest in any future tender opportunity once the contract notice is published in OJEU and on Contracts Finder (during September 2018).

It should be noted that this PIN/RFI invites individuals and organisations to express an interest in this RFI exercise only, and it is NOT a pre-qualification questionnaire, and is NOT part of any pre-qualification or selection process. This PIN/RFI is intended as an awareness, communication, and information gathering exercise. An expression of interest is no indication of a commitment to participate in the RFI process nor does it infer any preferential or special status on those individuals and organisations who express an interest in the RFI exercise.

NECS is utilising an electronic tendering portal (PROACTIS) to manage this RFI and as such interested individuals and organisations will need to register on the portal to access the RFI documentation and return their completed RFI documentation www.proactisplaza.com/supplierportal/?CID=NECS.

The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (as amended) may apply to a future procurement 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.

The RFI documentation will be accessible from 12:00 noon on 08 August 2018 and completed RFI responses must be returned by 17:00 on 17 August 2018.