Awarded contract

Minor Oral Surgery Services

Details

Supplier(s)
Value
£5,438,398
Topic
Dental practice and related services
Published
16 January 2026

Tender description

The provision of Minor Oral Surgery Services across Lancashire and South Cumbria. Lot 1: The provision of Minor Oral Surgery Services (MOSS) across Lancashire and South Cumbria. This service involves the treatment and ongoing management of irregularities and pathology of the jaw and mouth that require surgical intervention by a specialist NHS dental provider. Start Date: 01/09/2026 End Date: 31/08/2028 The approximate lifetime value of the contract is based on the annual recurrent budget for L&SC 2025/26 which is £2,719,199, this budget is inflated on an annual basis to reflect increases in ring fenced allocations. This budget is across 12 providers delivering the service within L&SC. Activity caps will be applied to each MOSS provider to ensure levels of commissioned capacity remain within budget. The ICB are intending to award a contract to existing providers following direct award process C.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award date25 November 2025
  2. Completed: Award published16 January 2026
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About the buyer

NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board is the NHS integrated care board that commissions health services across Lancashire and South Cumbria. New provider contracts are assessed under the Provider Selection Regime, in effect nationally since 2023. Applicants submit gateway proformas and a quality assessment before governance review. The commissioning resource group ratifies new provider contracts before mobilisation. Finance and procurement runs through ISFE2, the national NHS finance and procurement system supported by NHS Shared Business Services. A dedicated procurement inbox handles enquiries from prospective providers.

UK health spending has nearly quadrupled to £241.8bn in 2024/25, £20bn up on the year before. £140.6bn of that went to procurement, the biggest sector of UK public spending and the fastest-growing.

Over the past 5 years, most of NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board's contract awards have been in health and social work and software and information systems.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 85130000 · Dental practice and related services

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