Planning

Request for Information - Oral Health Promotion Service (Early Years)

  • Buckinghamshire Council

UK2: Preliminary market engagement notice - Procurement Act 2023 - view information about notice types

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-059838

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-05a271

Published 25 September 2025, 4:11pm



Scope

Reference

25_26 760

Description

Buckinghamshire Council (the Council) is requesting information about commissioning a new highly targeted Oral Health Promotion Service that could include the delivery of a Supervised Toothbrushing Programme (STP), in line with national guidance.

Suppliers are invited to participate in this exercise by completing the attached questionnaire. This will help the Council understand where the market stands in terms of Oral Health Promotion (within the scope of early years, ages 3-5), including but not limited to STP and oral health promotion training and development. It is seeking to engage with suppliers who have experience in this market to help it refine the requirements of any potential future procurement exercise and would like to hear their views.

Total value (estimated)

  • £166,000 excluding VAT
  • £199,200 including VAT

Contract dates (estimated)

  • 2 February 2026 to 31 March 2029
  • 3 years, 1 month, 27 days

Main procurement category

Services

CPV classifications

  • 80561000 - Health training services
  • 85323000 - Community health services

Contract locations

  • UKJ13 - Buckinghamshire CC

Engagement

Engagement deadline

9 October 2025

Engagement process description

The Request for Information (RFI) documents for this opportunity are published on the Council's procurement portal: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/buckinghamshire-council. These documents includes all relevant details about the project and outline the information we are seeking from the supplier market.

If you wish to participate and have not yet registered, please ensure you do so via the portal in order to access the documentation. The RFI will remain open until 12:00 noon (midday) on Thursday, 9th October 2025.

For ease of access, you may copy and paste the following link into your browser:

https://in-tendhost.co.uk/buckinghamshire-council

Please note that all queries relating to this RFI must be submitted via the In-Tend portal, in accordance with the instructions provided within the documents.


Participation

Particular suitability

  • Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)
  • Voluntary, community and social enterprises (VCSE)

Submission

Publication date of tender notice (estimated)

31 October 2025


Procedure

Special regime

Light touch


Contracting authority

Buckinghamshire Council

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PCLJ-2677-YQXD

The Gateway, Gatehouse Road

Aylesbury

HP198FF

United Kingdom

Contact name: Ann Spence

Email: procurement@buckinghamshire.gov.uk

Region: UKJ13 - Buckinghamshire CC

Organisation type: Public authority - sub-central government