Official UK procurement notice
Procurement for the provision of a Postgraduate Dental Education Framework Agreement
Authority: Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) (Central government)
What is being bought6 lots · detail below
Published requirement descriptionHealth Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) plays a leading role in the education, training, development, and shaping of the healthcare workforce in Wales to ensure the delivery of a high quality of care for the people of Wales.
The Dental Deanery in HEIW supports postgraduate education and training for the whole dental workforce in Wales. This includes Dental Foundation, Dental Core and Dental Specialty training for Dentists, Dental Foundation for Therapists, and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for all dental team members as defined by the General Dental Council (GDC). The Dental Postgraduate Section of HEIW have sought to commission speakers to deliver the education and training of Dental Foundation of Core trainees and all dental team members across Wales, which will include:
Dental Foundation Training; Dental Core Training; Welsh Dental Therapy Foundation Training; Continuing Professional Development; and Performers List Validation by Experience.
The primary objectives of this procurement are to:
- Develop and establish a framework consisting of suitably qualified, financially robust Service Providers to meet quality and service criteria.
- Ensure consistent high-quality Service provision
- Establish key performance indicators, performance monitoring/outcome measures
- Recurrence: This services may be retendered prior to the expiry of the contract.
CPV: Education and training services · Higher education services
How this framework works
From the published notice- Bids received
- 11 bids on the busiest of 6 lots · 13 suppliers appointed
- Framework period
- 3 yrs from 1 Aug 2023
Lots and requirements (6)Procurement structure
6 lots · no lot values published · same evaluation weights on every lotLot #1Lot 1, North Wales (Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board)AwardedRenewal
Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) plays a leading role in the education, training, development and shaping of the healthcare workforce in Wales to ensure the delivery of a high quality of care for the people of Wales.
The Dental Deanery in HEIW supports postgraduate education and training for the whole dental workforce in Wales.
For Lot 1 HEIW sought to procure the following education:
Adhesive Dentistry
Complete Dentures
Composites
Crown and Bridge
Dental Photography
Dental Treatment planning
Effective Emergency Care in GDP
Endodontics
Occlusion
Partial Dentures
Periodontics
Tooth wear
This education will be for the area of North Wales and will be delivered Face-to-Face with Online Elements.
Lot #2Lot 2, Mid Wales (Powys Teaching Health Board)AwardedRenewal
Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) plays a leading role in the education, training, development and shaping of the healthcare workforce in Wales to ensure the delivery of a high quality of care for the people of Wales.
The Dental Deanery in HEIW supports postgraduate education and training for the whole dental workforce in Wales.
For Lot 2 HEIW sought to procure the following education:
Adhesive Dentistry
Complete Dentures
Composites
Crown and Bridge
Dental Photography
Dental Treatment planning
Effective Emergency Care in GDP
Endodontics
Occlusion
Partial Dentures
Periodontics
Tooth wear
This education will be for the area of Mid Wales and will be delivered Face-to-Face with Online Elements.
Lot #3Lot 3, South Wales (Aneurin Bevan; Cardiff & Vale and Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board)AwardedRenewal
Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) plays a leading role in the education, training, development and shaping of the healthcare workforce in Wales to ensure the delivery of a high quality of care for the people of Wales.
The Dental Deanery in HEIW supports postgraduate education and training for the whole dental workforce in Wales.
For Lot 3 HEIW sought to procure the following education:
Adhesive Dentistry
Complete Dentures
Composites
Crown and Bridge
Dental Photography
Dental Treatment planning
Effective Emergency Care in GDP
Endodontics
Occlusion
Partial Dentures
Periodontics
Tooth wear
This education will be for the area of South Wales and will be delivered Face-to-Face with Online Elements.
Lot #4Lot 4, West Wales (Swansea Bay and Hywel Dda University Health Board)AwardedRenewal
Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) plays a leading role in the education, training, development and shaping of the healthcare workforce in Wales to ensure the delivery of a high quality of care for the people of Wales.
The Dental Deanery in HEIW supports postgraduate education and training for the whole dental workforce in Wales.
For Lot 4 HEIW sought to procure the following education:
Adhesive Dentistry
Complete Dentures
Composites
Crown and Bridge
Dental Photography
Dental Treatment planning
Effective Emergency Care in GDP
Endodontics
Occlusion
Partial Dentures
Periodontics
Tooth wear
This education will be for the area of West Wales and will be delivered Face-to-Face with Online Elements.
Lot #5Lot 5, All Wales, delivered via Synchronous LearningAwardedRenewal
Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) plays a leading role in the education, training, development and shaping of the healthcare workforce in Wales to ensure the delivery of a high quality of care for the people of Wales.
The Dental Deanery in HEIW supports postgraduate education and training for the whole dental workforce in Wales.
For Lot 5 HEIW sought to procure the following education:
Adhesive Dentistry
Complete Dentures
Composites
Crown and Bridge
Dental Photography
Dental Treatment planning
Effective Emergency Care in GDP
Endodontics
Occlusion
Partial Dentures
Periodontics
Tooth wear
Autism awareness
Communication and dealing with complaints
CVs, Personal Marketing and Interview Techniques
Deaf awareness and sign language
Disability awareness
Dyslexia awareness
Health and Safety
Managing change in the dental profession
Managing stress and maintaining performance
Mental Health Awareness
Risk assessment
Safeguarding Adults (Level 2)
Safeguarding Children (Level 2)
Supporting behaviour change
This education will be an All Wales agreement and will be delivered via Synchronous Learning.
Lot #6Lot 6, All Wales, delivered Face-to-Face with Online Elements.AwardedRenewal
Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) plays a leading role in the education, training, development and shaping of the healthcare workforce in Wales to ensure the delivery of a high quality of care for the people of Wales.
The Dental Deanery in HEIW supports postgraduate education and training for the whole dental workforce in Wales.
For Lot 6 HEIW sought to procure the following education:
Module 1: Adult Learning, Roles, and Responsibilities
Module 2: Delivering Effective Tutorials
Module 3: Assessment and Feedback
Module 4: Relationships, Challenges and Conflict
This education will be an All Wales agreement and will be delivered Face-to-Face with Online Elements.
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 award criteria (2)
- Quality: 100
- Price: 0
- “Procurement for the provision of a Postgraduate Dental Education…” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Yes · This services may be retendered prior to the expiry of the contract.
- First published
- 9 Jun 2023, 16:26 BST
- Last source update
- 13 Sept 2023, 15:17 BST
- Award evaluation window
- 26 Jun 2023 – …
- FTS notice number
2023/S 000-027114- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-03d53aFind a Tender
- Electronic trading
- e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment
- Performance terms
as stated within the procurement documents.
Publisher note: These are Light Touch services, the procurement procedure followed was a procedure akin to the Open Procedure. The Framework will remain open throughout its lifetime to allow - on an annual basis - (i) new entrants to the market (prospective Bidders) to seek appointment onto the Framework, (ii) existing Framework Providers to seek appointment onto the Framework in relation to different, or additional Lots to those for which they were originally appointed onto the Framework. Please see below for refresh dates- ITT 103365: - 1st August 2024, [responses by 26th June 2024] - 1st August 2025, [responses by 26th June 2025] - 1st August 2026, [responses by 26th June 2026] * *In the event the Framework Agreement is extended This is a non-committal Framework Agreement for the period of three years with an option to extend for one year The usage is undefined and is applicable across all lots. For bidders who wish to seek appointment onto the Framework - please follow the below process for future refresh dates: Bidders are free to submit bids in respect of any number of Lots. Bidders to note they will need to submit only once against the pre-disclosed evaluation criteria set out in the ITT, which will be evaluated once and scoring will be applied to all the lots bidders apply for. To complete your formal proposal, please access the ITT via the Bravo eTender Wales portal where you will find a full suite of tender documentation. 1. Register your company: https://etenderwales.bravosolution.co.uk and click the link to register. 2. Express and Interest in the tender: - Click ‘ITT Open to all suppliers’ - Click ITT_ 103365 and express interest - This will move the ITT into your ‘my ITTs page’ - You can access any attachments by clicking ‘buyer attachments’ in the ‘ITT details’ box 3. Responding to the tender - Click ‘my response’ under ‘ITT details’. You can choose to ‘create response’ or ‘decline to respond’ - You can now use the messages function to communicate with HEIW (WA Ref:134082)
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
- 3 Jul 2023, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en, cy
- Bids opened
- 26 Jun 2023, 12:00 BST
Timeline
26 Jun 2023 → 13 Sept 2023 · 4 dates- Bids opened26 Jun 2023, 12:00 BST
- Admission / appointment period endsperiod end, not a bid countdown3 Jul 2023, 12:00 BST
- Contract starts1 Aug 2023, 00:00 BST
- Notice published13 Sept 2023, 15:17 BST
Notice history
2 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 19 Jun 2023- Deadline moved to 3 Jul 2023, 12:00 BST19 Jun 2023, 12:24 BST+7 days · was 26 Jun 2023, 12:00 BST
- Status changed to complete13 Sept 2023, 15:17 BST
Published amendments (1 · 1 deadline change)
| When | What | Before | After | Shift |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | DeadlineTime limit · IV.2.2 | 26 Jun 2023 | 3 Jul 2023 | +7 d |
| — | Bid openingConditions for opening of tenders · IV.2.7 | 26 Jun 2023 | 3 Jul 2023 | +7 d |
Please be advised the closing date of the tender has been extended to the 3rd July 2023.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast6 suppliers are admitted to this framework without individual award values or dates, see the supplier list below.
Contracts
All 6 of these contracts carry the same published figure, £500,000, the framework's maximum for the whole notice, not each contract's own value. They are not eleven separate sums.
Lot 5, All Wales, delivered via Synchronous Learning
- Signed
- 14 Aug 2023
- Value
- ceiling above
- Period
- … – 31 Jul 2026
- Status
- active
Lot 2, Mid Wales (Powys Teaching Health Board)
- Signed
- 14 Aug 2023
- Value
- ceiling above
- Period
- … – 31 Jul 2026
- Status
- active
Lot 3, South Wales (Aneurin Bevan; Cardiff & Vale and Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board)
- Signed
- 14 Aug 2023
- Value
- ceiling above
- Period
- … – 31 Jul 2026
- Status
- active
Lot 4, West Wales (Swansea Bay and Hywel Dda University Health Board)
- Signed
- 14 Aug 2023
- Value
- ceiling above
- Period
- … – 31 Jul 2026
- Status
- active
Lot 1, North Wales (Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board)
- Signed
- 14 Aug 2023
- Value
- ceiling above
- Period
- … – 31 Jul 2026
- Status
- active
Lot 6, All Wales, delivered Face-to-Face with Online Elements.
- Signed
- 14 Aug 2023
- Value
- ceiling above
- Period
- … – 31 Jul 2026
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Lot | Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 · Lot 1, North Wales (Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board) | 6bids · 6 electronic · 6 from abroad | 6 | — | — |
| 2 · Lot 2, Mid Wales (Powys Teaching Health Board) | 8bids · 8 electronic · 8 from abroad | 8 | — | — |
| 3 · Lot 3, South Wales (Aneurin Bevan; Cardiff & Vale and Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board) | 8bids · 8 electronic · 8 from abroad | 8 | — | — |
| 4 · Lot 4, West Wales (Swansea Bay and Hywel Dda University Health Board) | 8bids · 8 electronic · 8 from abroad | 8 | — | — |
| 5 · Lot 5, All Wales, delivered via Synchronous Learning | 11bids · 11 electronic · 11 from abroad | 11 | — | — |
| 6 · Lot 6, All Wales, delivered Face-to-Face with Online Elements. | 1bids · 1 electronic · 1 from abroad | 1 | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- High CourtReview body
Framework contractors & participating bidders
13 commercial parties on the notice- 3DDentistryFramework contractor
- A to One LtdFramework contractor
- Bradgate House LTDFramework contractor
- Children in WalesFramework contractor
- David LewisFramework contractor
- Dentcom TrainingFramework contractor
- Esther BrewerFramework contractor
- Healthcare InteractFramework contractor
- Hill Dental ConsultingFramework contractor
- P.WestonFramework contractor
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- PerioCoursesFramework contractor
- Rumney EndodonticsFramework contractor
- Unicornium Ltd.Framework contractor
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Technical selection criteria
- Economic and financial selection criteria