Invitation to Tender for the Provision of Registrant and Student Panels and Associated Services
Estimated value
—
Awarded value
—
Suppliers
0
Lots
2
Published
22 Aug 2025
Description
The GDC’s core function is to protect the public. This project represents a key task in our strategic commitment to embed user voice, empathy and compassion across all aspects of our work. The panels will play a vital role in enabling the GDC to better hear, understand, and respond to the needs, experiences, perceptions, and expectations of our registrants and students. The voices of registrants and students and the insights they provide will be vital in our work to enhance our effectiveness as a regulator and ensure our approach remains transparent, inclusive, and responsive to the needs of those we regulate. The GDC’s registrant and student panels will ensure we sustain a robust, responsive and independently facilitated approach to involving user voice to inform a wide range of GDC activity. This includes using the panels to develop our understanding of the impacts of factors that are external to the GDC on the dental sector, dental education, the dental workforce, and the public's access to and experience of dental services. The General Dental Council (GDC) invites responses to our invitation to tender, ‘Registrant and student panels and associated services’. This invitation breaks our requirements into two LOTs, each with a fixed price element for setting up and management of each of the panels, and a call-off element to allow for undertaking activities with the panels. Bidders are invited to bid for one or both Panels (LOTs). For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-London:-Research-and-development-consultancy-services./2SX662332H To respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/2SX662332H
Scope
- Reference
- GDC-2025-014
- Total value
- £720,000 including VATAbove the relevant threshold
- Commercial tool
- Standalone contract
- Contract dates
- 24 Nov 2025 to 23 Nov 2027Possible extension to 23 Nov 2029
The contract will run for an initial two years with the option to renew annually for a further two years.
- Main category
- services
- CPV classifications
- 7300000073200000732100007330000079315000
- Contract locations
- UK, United Kingdom
- Particular suitability
- Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)Voluntary, community and social enterprises (VCSE)
Award criteria
Criteria the buyer will use to evaluate bids.
| Name | Description | Type | Weighting |
|---|---|---|---|
| Criterion 1 | Commercial Criteria | price | 30.00% |
| Criterion 2 | Quality | quality | 70.00% |
| Criterion 2 | Quality Criteria | quality | 70.00% |
Submission & procedure
- Enquiry deadline
- 05 Sept 2025, 4:00 pm
- Submission deadline
- 26 Sept 2025, 11:00 am
- Submission address
- To access the Invitation to Tender document and submit your tender please follow the link below, the Access Code is 222AD35555: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/buyers/select/viewListStatus.html?id=975552681
- Electronic submission
- Yes
- Procedure
- Competitive flexible procedure
Lots · 2 total
Divisions of the contract. Each lot can be awarded separately.
| Lot | Title | Est. value | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Registrant Panel Requirements | — | active |
| 2 | Student Panel Requirements | — | active |