EOI: Domiciliary Dental Services across Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire

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*This is a Prior Information Notice (PIN)* <br/><br/>NHS Arden and Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit (AGCSU) on behalf of NHS Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) and NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB (referred to as the Commissioners) wish to inform the market of a future procurement opportunity for Dental Domiciliary Services across Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire (to include Bassetlaw). <br/><br/>The Commissioner would like to invite interested providers to participate in an early market assessment questionnaire which will be used as a conduit to ascertain market capability and interest in the opportunity, prior to publication of the formal procurement opportunity in Summer 2025.

The questionnaire will help Commissioners to:<br/><br/>• Gain market views on the viability of procuring the Domiciliary Dental service,<br/>• Determine length of future contracts.<br/><br/>A draft Service Specification has been provided by the Commissioner (which can be found in the attachments areas of Atamis), Providers are to note that this Specification is in a draft format and is subject to change for the formal tender process.

The Service Specification has been published to allow Providers to give appropriate responses to the questions asked in the Market Assessment questionnaire.<br/><br/>The contract to be entered into will be in accordance with the NHS Personal Dental Services (PDS) Agreement and the Commissioners intend to offer two Personal Dental Services contracts, one contract covering Derbyshire and another covering Nottinghamshire (including Bassetlaw).

Both contracts are due to commence on 1st April 2026.<br/><br/>If your organisation is interested in this opportunity, then please respond to the early market assessment questions on Atamis and register your interest by following the instructions given below in section I.2.14.1 Additional information.

Please note the deadline for interested providers to complete the early market assessment is 5pm on Friday 4th July 2025.