Section one: Contracting authority
one.1) Name and addresses
NHS England and NHS Improvement - Midlands
Fosse House, Grove Park, Enderby
Leicester
LE19 1SX
Contact
Neelam Saroe
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
UKF21 - Leicester
National registration number
na
Internet address(es)
Main address
https://www.ardengemcsu.nhs.uk/
Buyer's address
https://uk.eu-supply.com/login.asp?B=agcsu
one.3) Communication
The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at
https://uk.eu-supply.com/ctm/Supplier/Documents/Folder/28789
Additional information can be obtained from the above-mentioned address
one.4) Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
one.5) Main activity
Health
Section two: Object
two.1) Scope of the procurement
two.1.1) Title
Quote/tender 43887 - Intermediate Minor Oral Surgery (IMOS) including treatment under Conscious Sedation - East Midlands Wide
Reference number
AG20052
two.1.2) Main CPV code
- 85130000 - Dental practice and related services
two.1.3) Type of contract
Services
two.1.4) Short description
NHS Arden & Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit (AG CSU) on behalf of NHS England and NHS Improvement – Midlands (referred to as the Commissioners) wish to inform the market of a future procurement opportunity for Intermediate Minor Oral Surgery (IMOS) (referred to as the service) including treatment under Conscious Sedation across the East Midlands region.
two.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots: No
two.2) Description
two.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
- 85130000 - Dental practice and related services
two.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS codes
- UKF - East Midlands (England)
two.2.4) Description of the procurement
AG CSU acting on behalf of the Commissioners, would like to invite suitably qualified and experienced providers to participate in a survey that will help to:
• Gain market views on the viability of procuring an Intermediate Minor Oral Surgery (IMOS),
• Determine a structure of the future procurement,
• Determine length of future contracts
Guidance regarding how to complete this survey has been provided within “Additional Information” section of this notice. Interested parties are encouraged to review that section.
The Commissioners would like to appoint service provider(s) for providing high quality Level 2 Intermediate Minor Oral Surgery (IMOS) including treatment under Conscious Sedation across the East Midlands. Intermediate Minor Oral Surgery is a referral service for people over the age of 16 years and is provided within a community setting. The service will provide specialist treatment e.g. complex dental extractions by a clinician with enhanced skills and experience that is either on the oral surgery specialist list or accredited in line with national guidance. Treatment may be provided under local anaesthetic and the clinician may use quality behavioural management techniques or provide treatment under conscious sedation where appropriate for minor oral surgery procedures.
The service objectives are to:
• ensure that equitable, accessible, cost effective, high quality IMOS Surgery including treatment under Conscious Sedation is available to the public within each STP/ICS
• increase the availability and accessibility of the primary care based IMOS Services to those patients who require sedation to support them to receive a minor oral surgical procedure locally
• release pressures and waiting times for treatment at secondary care resources
• reduce the number of patients receiving minor oral surgical procedures under general anaesthesia
• to deliver clinical services based on best available evidence and will work to relevant clinical guidelines published by professional bodies, incorporating relevant best-practice principles
• to have appropriately registered, qualified, trained, accredited and experienced professionals to ensure that the complexity of the patient or procedure matches the skills and setting of the individual or team providing the treatment
• to deliver safe, high quality, patient-centred oral surgery services from primary care settings by named Performers
• to ensure that patients who most need the services are able to be referred to a local provider
The requisite service will be procured under the NHS Personal Dental Services (PDS) Agreement Regulations (2018) and needs to cover the five listed STP/ICS areas in the East Midlands region. The service needs to be shaped in a way that supports the local Sustainability and Transformation Partnership areas (STPs) and emerging Integrated Care Systems (ICSs).
• Derbyshire
• Nottinghamshire
• Leicester City, Leicestershire & Rutland
• Lincolnshire
• Northamptonshire.
two.2.14) Additional information
Please note that a lotting strategy has not been decided as yet. The lotting strategy will be informed by a number of factors outlined in Health Needs Assessments, Service Review, market engagement and wider stakeholders, public/patients engagement/consultation feedback etc.
two.3) Estimated date of publication of contract notice
3 January 2022
Section six. Complementary information
six.3) Additional information
To complete the survey please visit AG CSU’s e-procurement system known as “EU supply” and register your interest against: Quote/tender 43887 - AG20052 - Intermediate Minor Oral Surgery (IMOS) including treatment under Conscious Sedation - East Midlands Wide. Then complete and submit the questionnaire. Please note the deadline for responses is by 10:00am on Monday 19th July 2021.
Please note that this survey is purely a market engagement exercise. Your response to this survey does not guarantee your organisation’s participation in any future procurement resultant from this exercise.
Future procurements resultant from this exercise will be advertised separately. Should your organisation wish to submit its bid, then it must respond to the advertisement which calls for the procurement competition separately at the time.