NHS England (South Region) - Dynamic Purchasing System for the Provision of Orthodontic Services

NHS England is responsible for commissioning high quality primary care services for the population of England and the current commissioning policy is to move towards more place based, clinically led commissioning. NHS England has responsibility for the commissioning of all dental services including specialist, community and out of hours dental services.

Following a review of the way that orthodontic dental services are commissioned across the South Region of NHS England, the Services will be procured by utilising a dynamic purchasing system (DPS) on a pan South region basis, covering the following local offices: • NHS South-East • NHS South Central • NHS Wessex • NHS South-West The DPS will be broken up into 4 separate lots to reflect this (1 x lot per local office) Services to be procured under the DPS are Level 2 and Level 3a NHS Orthodontic Services as defined within the NHS England Guides for Commissioning Dental Specialities - Orthodontics. The estimated value stated in Section 1 represents the current annual contract values (total) in the region The dynamic purchasing system will remain open for 7 years.

Any provider who wishes to be considered for any future call off contract for Orthodontic Services across these areas must first be registered and have been approved onto the DPS prior to any opportunity being published. Providers may apply to register at any time.

The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/scwcsu/aspx/Home N.B. The contract start and end dates above are for notification only the actual contractual dates will be published on each opportunity.