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OpenStage · planning

General Dental Council

Provision of Legal Services in Relation to Fitness to Practise

Business ServicesCPV 79100000
Value£7.0m
Deadline
Published1 Mar 2024
RegionNationwide
Who to contact
OLALEKAN ODEFADEHAN
procurement@gdc-uk.org
+44 2071676000

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£7.0mtotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£7.6m

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The brief

The purpose of this notice is to notify the market of the General Dental Council’s (GDC) intention to undertake a procurement exercise for Legal Services in relation to Fitness to practice cases.

The GDC is the UK-wide statutory regulator of more than 115,000 members of the dental team, including approximately 44,000 dentists and 71,000 dental care professionals (DCPs) - dental nurses, clinical dental technicians, dental hygienists, dental technicians, dental therapists and orthodontic therapists.

Our primary purpose is to protect patient safety and maintain public confidence in the dental professions.

The GDC achieve this through the following objectives: -to protect, promote and maintain the health, safety and well-being of the public; -to promote and maintain confidence in the dental profession; and -to promote and maintain proper professional standards and conduct for these professions.

Where a concern is raised about a dental professional’s conduct or competence the has the power to investigate: -serious or repeated mistakes in clinical care, for example mistakes in diagnosis or dental procedure; -failure to examine a patient properly, to secure a patient’s informed consent before treatment, keep satisfactory records, or to respond reasonably to a patient’s needs; -not having professional indemnity insurance; -cross infection issues (for example, using dirty clinical equipment during treatment); -serious breaches of a patient’s confidentiality; -potential criminal offences including fraud, sexual misconduct, theft or dishonesty by a dental professional; -conduct that is contrary to the GDC standards; and -poor health or a medical condition that significantly affects a dental professional’s ability to treat patients safely.

At this point we are considering our procurement options to securing contract to provide the legal services as described in section [ II.2.4 ] below.

If your organisation is interested in tendering for the work described in this PIN , please complete the expression of interest form , downloadable from the Delta e-Sourcing portal.

Complete forms will need to be submitted by Midday on 18 March 2024.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Our primary purpose is to protect patient

Our primary purpose is to protect patient safety and maintain public confidence in the dental professions.

02

The GDC achieve this through the following

The GDC achieve this through the following objectives: -to protect, promote and maintain the health, safety and well-being of the public; -to promote and maintain confidence in the dental profession; and -to promote and maintain proper professional standards and conduct for these professions.

03

At this point we are considering our

At this point we are considering our procurement options to securing contract to provide the legal services as described in section [ II.2.4 ] below.

04

Complete forms will need to be submitted

Complete forms will need to be submitted by Midday on 18 March 2024.

Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0444d6
Stage
planning · Planning
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
006730-2024
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