Official UK procurement notice
Mobile Dental Inclusion and Outreach Services
Authority: NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board (Central government)·On behalf of: Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB would welcome bids for the delivery of dental treatment to patients who reside in a Hampshire or Isle of Wight postcode, have a valid exemption from paying for dental treatment or have a health inequality, which includes but not limited to:
Clinically Vulnerable
Care Home Resident
Patients are unable to afford care
Veterans/ Families of Armed forces personnel
Asylum Seekers / Refugees
Expectant and nursing mothers
Homeless
or are in the following cohorts who do not have a dentist, NHS or private:
Children
Those in need of urgent care either through referral from 111 or known to the service.
The service will primarily use mobile dental units to deliver the service and several units will be required to deliver the annual clinic target. The mobile dental service will operate several mobile dental units across several clinic sites per month. The provide must have adequate mobile dental units of the required standard, skilled workforce and operational infrastructure to support this.
- No preliminary market engagement: Notice ref: ocds-h6vhtk-059c36
CPV: Dental practice and related services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1RenewalPublished value£1,479,926
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (2)
- Quality: 70%
- Cost: 30%
Published award criteria (2)
- Cost
- Quality: inc. Social Value
- Price carries 30 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 3 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Light touch regime
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 5 Dec 2025, 14:13 GMT
- Last source update
- 5 Dec 2025, 14:13 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 20 Apr 2026
- Authority reference
C404425- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-080212- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05efd8Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 9 Jan 2026, 14:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 23 Dec 2025, 12:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at
health-family.force.com/s/Welcome ↗
Additional information can be obtained from the above-mentioned address
Tenders or requests to participate must be submitted electronically via
Timeline
5 Dec 2025 → 1 Aug 2026 · 5 dates- Tender notice published326 days ago5 Dec 2025, 14:13 GMT
- Clarification questions by309 days ago23 Dec 2025, 12:00 GMT
- Submission deadline291 days ago9 Jan 2026, 14:00 GMT
- Award decision expected by190 days ago20 Apr 2026, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts88 days ago1 Aug 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published5 Dec 2025, 14:13 GMTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
3 public bodies on the noticeOther public bodies
- Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS TrustBeneficiary authority
- NHS South of England Procurement ServicesProcess contact pointProcuring entityProcurement Services (Hosted by Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust)
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender