{ "tag": [ "compiled" ], "id": "ocds-h6vhtk-0773f1-2026-09-16T19:58:04+01:00", "date": "2026-09-16T19:58:04+01:00", "ocid": "ocds-h6vhtk-0773f1", "description": "This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intention to award notice. The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award. The publication of this notice marks the start of the standstill period. Representations by providers must be made to decision makers via the contact point contained herein by midnight on 28th September 2026. These contracts have not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award under the PSR. The award decision-makers are: Essex Integrated Care Board Governing Board All individuals involved in the decision making process were required to complete conflicts of interest declarations in line with Regulation 21 of the PSR. Conflicts of interest declarations were received and reviewed for relevant officers. No actual, potential or perceived conflicts of interest relevant to these contract awards were identified. Where Declaration A was submitted, this was confirmed and recorded in the project conflicts register, which has been maintained as a live document and reviewed at key stages, including prior to publication of the transparency notice. Authorised Individuals oversaw the process, ensuring compliance with PSR requirements, appropriate separation of duties, and ongoing monitoring to ensure that any new or emerging conflicts would be declared promptly and managed proportionately. In making this decision, the relevant authority placed greatest weight on integration, collaboration and sustainability (30%) and quality and safety (25%), reflecting the clinically specialised, capacity constrained nature of orthodontic services and the critical importance of continuity of care for patients undergoing long term treatment. Value (20%) and access, inequalities and choice (20%) were also significant and were assessed primarily through the lens of avoiding disruption, protecting local capacity and preventing the duplication of costs associated with provider change, given nationally fixed pricing and limited market contestability. Social value (5%) was weighted lower due to the authority's limited leverage in this niche market and the need for a proportionate, phased approach to additional requirements. The incumbent providers were selected because they demonstrably meet all regulatory and quality requirements, are embedded within local pathways, and offer the lowest risk option for maintaining safe, effective and equitable services, with any alternative provider selection route posing unacceptable risks to continuity, patient safety and system stability.", "initiationType": "tender", "tender": { "id": "ACE-0862-2026-MSE", "legalBasis": { "id": "32014L0024", "scheme": "CELEX" }, "title": "Orthodontics Service in Essex", "status": "complete", "classification": { "scheme": "CPV", "id": "85131100", "description": "Orthodontic services" }, "mainProcurementCategory": "services", "description": "NHS Essex Integrated Care Board (the Authority) intend to award multiple contracts for provision of Orthodontic Services (the Service) to the existing providers in Mid and South Essex and North East Essex following a direct award process C under the Provider Selection Regime 23. The contract provides NHS primary care orthodontic services across Essex ICB, comprising the assessment and completion of orthodontic courses of treatment for eligible patients, including active treatment, supervised retention, early intervention and urgent care. Services are delivered by established specialist orthodontic providers under PDS arrangements, maintaining continuity of care, clinical quality and access for children and young people across the Essex system. Please see II.2.4) Description of the procurement for further details.", "lots": [ { "id": "1", "description": "Pursuant to the statutory changes effective from 1 April 2026, the commissioning responsibility for the Service in North East Essex and West Essex also transferred from NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board and Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board to NHS Essex Integrated Care Board. Accordingly, the service constitutes an inherited commissioning arrangement arising directly from the organisational transition. West Essex Orthodontic Services are already in place and are not in scope of this Notice or DAP C. The Contracts provide NHS primary care orthodontic services across Mid and South Essex and North East Essex for eligible children and young people. Services are delivered by established specialist orthodontic providers under Personal Dental Services (PDS) arrangements, supporting continuity of care, clinical quality and access across the Essex system. The service covers the full orthodontic pathway, including case assessment and treatment planning, active orthodontic treatment using fixed and/or removable appliances, supervised retention following treatment, early orthodontic intervention where clinically indicated, urgent orthodontic care, and ongoing monitoring of treatment outcomes and clinical quality. Care is provided by appropriately qualified and registered specialist orthodontic clinicians, with patients referred primarily via General Dental Practitioners in line with national commissioning policy and the Index of Orthodontic Treatment Need (IOTN) threshold. Services are provided to patients already in treatment at contract commencement and to new eligible patients referred during the contract term, subject to available commissioned capacity. Providers are responsible for maintaining continuity of care across long treatment cycles, avoiding disruption to patients mid-treatment, and ensuring safe handover or transfer arrangements where treatment cannot be completed. All services must be delivered in accordance with the NHS Personal Dental Services Regulations, NICE guidance, Care Quality Commission registration requirements and NHS England orthodontic commissioning standards. The scope does not introduce new service models, pathways, or materially different activity, and maintains the existing geographic distribution of specialist orthodontic provision across Essex. This approach safeguards service stability, patient safety, access, and system sustainability within a clinically specialised and capacity constrained orthodontic market, where alternative provision cannot realistically be secured without unacceptable risk. Each separate contract (with exception to Colchester Smiles which is awarded for 3 years, commencing 1 April 2027 and expiring 31st March 2030 with an option to extend for a further 3 years until 31st March 2033) is being awarded for a fixed five year term running from 1 April 2027 to 31 March 2032, with a potential extension of up to five years, which if enacted to its full period would bring the end of the contracts to 31 March 2037. The total estimated lifetime value of all contracts being awarded to 13 incumbent orthodontic providers is PS92,399,636.79. The estimated lifetime contract values broken down by awarded provider over the proposed term are as follows: -R Patel & Associates - PS4,671,358.85 -Mr H.S. Kehlar and Mr S. Kumar - PS5,854,771.74 -Byles & Sebastian Orthodontic Practice - PS18,480,270.73 -Penhaligon Witham Partnership - PS3,823,823.20 -Ongar Road Dental Practice - PS3,199,108.18 -Mr M. Kazemi and Dr S. Dhillon - PS9,667,188.09 -ORTHOWORLD 2000 LTD - PS9,497,521.57 -Down Town Dental Clinic Limited - PS8,329,125.10 -Mr N. M. Shah - PS6,871,069.71 -Wickford Dental Practice and Orthodontic Centre - PS7,138,403.61 -A.F. Clough Ortho Ltd - PS7,423,907.57 -Colchester Smiles - PS2,236,012.32 -Colchester Orthodontic Centre - PS5,207,076.13", "awardCriteria": { "criteria": [ { "name": "The existing providers are satisfying the original contracts and will likely satisfy the proposed contracts to a sufficient standard", "type": "quality", "description": "100" }, { "type": "price", "description": "0" } ] }, "hasOptions": true, "options": { "description": "With exception to Colchester Smiles, the remaining 12 contracts are awarded for a fixed five year term running from 1 April 2027 to 31 March 2032, with a potential extension of up to five years, which if enacted to its full period would bring the end of the contracts to 31 March 2037. Colchester Smiles is awarded for a three-year term running from 1st April 2027 - 31st March 2030, with a potential extension of up to three years, which if enacted to its full period would bring the end of the contract to 31 March 2033." }, "status": "cancelled" } ], "items": [ { "id": "1", "additionalClassifications": [ { "scheme": "CPV", "id": "85131000", "description": "Dental-practice services" }, { "scheme": "CPV", "id": "85131100", "description": "Orthodontic services" }, { "scheme": "CPV", "id": "85131110", "description": "Orthodontic-surgery services" } ], "deliveryAddresses": [ { "region": "UKH3" } ], "deliveryLocation": { "description": "Mid and South Essex and North East Essex" }, "relatedLot": "1" } ], "procurementMethod": "limited", "procurementMethodDetails": "Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition", "reviewDetails": "Where a representation is received during the 8 day standstill period, the ICB will pause contract award and review the representation in accordance with Regulation 13 of the Provider Selection Regime 2023 and the statutory guidance, taking appropriate action before proceeding.", "procurementMethodRationaleClassifications": [ { "scheme": "TED_PT_AWARD_CONTRACT_WITHOUT_CALL", "id": "D_OUTSIDE_SCOPE", "description": "The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive" } ], "procurementMethodRationale": "This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intention to award notice. The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award. The publication of this notice marks the start of the standstill period, which begins on the day after the notice of intention to award is published. Representations by providers must be made to the relevant authority by midnight on the 8th working day after the day the standstill period begins. These contracts have not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award under the PSR" }, "awards": [ { "id": "087986-2026-1", "relatedLots": [ "1" ], "title": "Orthodontic Services in Mid, South and North East Essex", "status": "active", "suppliers": [ { "id": "GB-FTS-186690", "name": "R Patel & Associates" }, { "id": "GB-FTS-186691", "name": "Mr H.S. Kehlar and Mr S. Kumar" }, { "id": "GB-FTS-186692", "name": "Byles & Sebastian Orthodontic Practice" }, { "id": "GB-FTS-186693", "name": "Penhaligon Witham Partnership" }, { "id": "GB-FTS-186694", "name": "Ongar Road Dental Practice" }, { "id": "GB-FTS-186695", "name": "Mr M. Kazemi and Dr S. Dhillon" }, { "id": "GB-FTS-186696", "name": "ORTHOWORLD 2000 LTD" }, { "id": "GB-FTS-186697", "name": "Down Town Dental Clinic Limited" }, { "id": "GB-FTS-186698", "name": "Mr N. M. Shah" }, { "id": "GB-FTS-186699", "name": "Wickford Dental Practice and Orthodontic Centre" }, { "id": "GB-FTS-186700", "name": "A.F. Clough Ortho Ltd" }, { "id": "GB-FTS-186701", "name": "Colchester Smiles" }, { "id": "GB-FTS-186702", "name": "Colchester Orthodontic Centre" } ] } ], "parties": [ { "id": "GB-FTS-179321", "name": "NHS Essex Integrated Care Board", "identifier": { "legalName": "NHS Essex Integrated Care Board" }, "address": { "streetAddress": "Seax House Victoria Road South", "locality": "Chelmsford", "region": "UKH3", "postalCode": "CM1 1QH", "countryName": "United Kingdom" }, "contactPoint": { "email": "amy.wilson@attain.co.uk" }, "roles": [ "buyer", "reviewContactPoint" ], "details": { "url": "https://www.essex.icb.nhs.uk/", "classifications": [ { "scheme": "TED_CA_TYPE", "id": "BODY_PUBLIC", "description": "Body governed by public law" }, { "scheme": "COFOG", "id": "07", "description": "Health" } ] } }, { "id": "GB-FTS-186690", "name": "R Patel & Associates", "identifier": { "legalName": "R Patel & Associates" }, "address": { "streetAddress": "St Michaels House St Michaels Lane", "locality": "Braintree", "region": "UKH3", "postalCode": "CM7 1EY", "countryName": "United Kingdom" }, "roles": [ "supplier" ], "details": { "scale": "sme" } }, { "id": "GB-FTS-186691", "name": "Mr H.S. Kehlar and Mr S. Kumar", "identifier": { "legalName": "Mr H.S. Kehlar and Mr S. Kumar" }, "address": { "locality": "TBC", "region": "UKH3", "countryName": "United Kingdom" }, "roles": [ "supplier" ], "details": { "scale": "sme" } }, { "id": "GB-FTS-186692", "name": "Byles & Sebastian Orthodontic Practice", "identifier": { "legalName": "Byles & Sebastian Orthodontic Practice" }, "address": { "streetAddress": "107 Baxter Avenue", "locality": "Southend on Sea, Essex", "region": "UKH3", "postalCode": "SS2 6HX", "countryName": "United Kingdom" }, "roles": [ "supplier" ], "details": { "scale": "sme" } }, { "id": "GB-FTS-186693", "name": "Penhaligon Witham Partnership", "identifier": { "legalName": "Penhaligon Witham Partnership" }, "address": { "streetAddress": "Penhaligon Dental Centre 12 Penhaligon Court Guithavon Street", "locality": "WITHAM Essex", "region": "UKH3", "postalCode": "CM8 1BQ", "countryName": "United Kingdom" }, "roles": [ "supplier" ], "details": { "scale": "sme" } }, { "id": "GB-FTS-186694", "name": "Ongar Road Dental Practice", "identifier": { "legalName": "Ongar Road Dental Practice" }, "address": { "streetAddress": "Ongar Road Dentist 16 Ongar Road", "locality": "BRENTWOOD Essex", "region": "UKH3", "postalCode": "CM15 9AX", "countryName": "United Kingdom" }, "roles": [ "supplier" ], "details": { "scale": "sme" } }, { "id": "GB-FTS-186695", "name": "Mr M. Kazemi and Dr S. Dhillon", "identifier": { "legalName": "Mr M. Kazemi and Dr S. Dhillon" }, "address": { "streetAddress": "Orthodontic Practice, Suite E, 2nd Floor, Southgate House, 88 Town Square", "locality": "Basildon", "region": "UKH3", "postalCode": "SS14 1BN", "countryName": "United Kingdom" }, "roles": [ "supplier" ], "details": { "scale": "sme" } }, { "id": "GB-FTS-186696", "name": "ORTHOWORLD 2000 LTD", "identifier": { "legalName": "ORTHOWORLD 2000 LTD" }, "address": { "streetAddress": "IDH Group Europa House Europa Park Stoneclough Road", "locality": "Kearlsey", "region": "UKD3", "postalCode": "M26 1GE", "countryName": "United Kingdom" }, "roles": [ "supplier" ], "details": { "scale": "sme" } }, { "id": "GB-FTS-186697", "name": "Down Town Dental Clinic Limited", "identifier": { "legalName": "Down Town Dental Clinic Limited" }, "address": { "streetAddress": "Down Town Dental Clinic 19A High Street", "locality": "CHELMSFORD Essex", "region": "UKH3", "postalCode": "CM1 1BE", "countryName": "United Kingdom" }, "roles": [ "supplier" ], "details": { "scale": "sme" } }, { "id": "GB-FTS-186698", "name": "Mr N. M. Shah", "identifier": { "legalName": "Mr N. M. Shah" }, "address": { "streetAddress": "Regency House 38 Ingrave Road", "locality": "Brentwood", "region": "UKH3", "postalCode": "CM15 8AX", "countryName": "United Kingdom" }, "roles": [ "supplier" ], "details": { "scale": "sme" } }, { "id": "GB-FTS-186699", "name": "Wickford Dental Practice and Orthodontic Centre", "identifier": { "legalName": "Wickford Dental Practice and Orthodontic Centre" }, "address": { "streetAddress": "Wickford Dental & Orthodontic Centre 68-70 London Road", "locality": "Wickford Essex", "region": "UKH3", "postalCode": "SS12 0AN", "countryName": "United Kingdom" }, "roles": [ "supplier" ], "details": { "scale": "sme" } }, { "id": "GB-FTS-186700", "name": "A.F. Clough Ortho Ltd", "identifier": { "legalName": "A.F. 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