UK Public Sector Contracts & Tenders

Provision of PET-CT Scanning Capacity for the following Trusts: • University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundations Trust (UHB)<br/>• University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust (UHCW)<br/>• University Hospitals of North Midlands (UHNM)<br/>• Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust (RWH)<br/>• Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBH)<br/><br/>Service anticipated to commence April 2027 for 24 months with option to extend for a further 12 months.

This is a competitive procedure under the Provider Selection Regime (PSR). The competition is being run by Birmingham Solihull Procurement Collaborative on behalf of Birmingham Mental Health Learning Disability and Autism Provider Collaborative.<br/><br/>Reach Out (RO) is the West Midland’s Adult Secure Provider Collaborative and provides the oversight and quality assurance for specialised mental health services across the region for medium and low secure adult inpatient services for mental illness, learning disabilities and autism, and specialist community forensic teams for mental illness.<br/>The aim is to commission 15 medium secure beds and 30 low secure beds, within the West Midlands region, preferably on a single site. These are expected to be a mixture of acute and rehab beds based on demand in keeping with patient’s best interests.<br/><br/>The Expected service commencement date is 1st of April 2027 and the duration of this contract will be 3 years, plus 2 x 1 year extensions.

Removal of external windows and doors to numerous departments at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and replacement with new thermal/energy efficient windows and doors.

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, Stepping Hill Hospital (“the Trust”) is seeking to appoint a suitably experienced Architectural Consultant-led multidisciplinary design team to support the development of a proposed new pathology building at Stepping Hill Hospital, Stockport. The Trust intends to procure consultancy services via an open competitive flexible procedure.

The authority is seeking suitably experience service provider that works within healthcare and hospital environments to advise and lead in transition planning, project management, consulting and physical relocation services to support delivery of major new hospital development which new build and refurbishment programme to deliver a new clinical model.

Care Home Brokerage Services to support effective discharge from hospital to intermediate care on behalf of The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust. The initial contract period is estimated to be 01/10/2026 to 30/09/2029 with the option to extend for up to 2 further years.

NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board (referred to as the Commissioner) is inviting suitably qualified and experienced providers to express interest in delivering an Adult non-complex Audiology Service in Birmingham and Solihull. <br/><br/>The Adult Non-Complex Community Audiology service is for patients over 18 years of age, who meet the eligibility criteria set out in this specification. Patients must be registered with a Birmingham and Solihull GP practice for whom Birmingham and Solihull (BSOL) Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the responsible commissioner.<br/><br/>The service required is for a community based, adult screening and hearing assessment service, treatment including earwax removal and automated audiology in line with the GIRFT Community ENT Framework, hearing aid fitting (where required), follow-up and aftercare services. BSOL ICB is seeking to commission full geographical coverage of provision across rural and urban areas.<br/><br/>The Provider will need to meet the needs of eligible patients whose referral indicates:<br/>• Sight loss/dual sensory loss;<br/>• Requiring translation services including language, lip reading and sign language;<br/>• Learning Disabilities – as special test facilities and techniques are needed;<br/>• Requiring domiciliary care – the Provider must provide all parts of the service at the patient’s domicile (including residential or nursing homes) where this is requested in writing by a GP.<br/><br/>Interested parties should express an interest by visiting https://atamis-1928.my.site.com/s/Welcome and searching for project reference C450113. The closing date for submission of tenders is 25th June 2026 at 1700hrs.

Proposed M&E Fit out and connections to new VIE Compound, Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, Shrewsbury with works to commence early August and be completed by the end of September 2026.

Coventry and Warwickshire Pathology Services (“CWPS”) is seeking a partner to implement a dedicated Pathology Transport Service which will provide sample, consumable and chemical transport. Coventry and Warwickshire Pathology Service (“CWPS”) is a managed network of pathology laboratories hosted by University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust (UHCW). Laboratory services are provided by laboratories at University Hospital, Coventry; Warwick Hospital, Warwick; and George Eliot Hospital, Nuneaton.

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NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board and NHS Black Country Integrated Care Board are seeking qualified and experienced providers for the provision of delivering Adult and Children & Young People (CYP) Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Autism Service(s). The services are to be delivered across Birmingham, Solihull and the Black Country. <br/><br/>Arden & Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit (AGCSU) is conducting a Direct Award Process B (DAP B) exercise as an agent for and on behalf of the Commissioner(s). The DAP B exercise will be carried out in accordance with the requirements of the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 (PSR). <br/><br/>As a result of this Process, the ICB(s) intend to award zero volume, zero value contract(s) to all successful providers. While there is no guarantee of activity, we will be issuing Indicative Activity Plan (IAPs).<br/><br/>Successful provider(s) will be awarded with a contract for a period of 12 months with the Commissioner having the option to extend the Contract for up to a further 12 months + 12 months.

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is one of the largest teaching hospital Trusts in England and the West Midlands, serving a regional, national and international population. It includes Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham Chest Clinic, Good Hope Hospital, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Solihull Hospital and various Community Services. We also run a number of smaller satellite units, allowing people to be treated as close to home as possible. As an NHS organisation, UHB will see and treat more than 2.2 million people every year across our sites. UHB currently employs over 20,000 members of staff and we are committed to investing in their development and their health and well being. Umbrella operates from several outlets across Birmingham and Solihull. In addition, partner organisations provide parts of the service from each of their localities. Finally, the service provides an online STI home sampling and online booking service. In the financial year 2025-26, Umbrella had a total of 102,322 patient contacts. A third of these were seen at Whittall Street Clinic (main hub) in the centre of Birmingham. Currently approximately 190 staff work for the Umbrella organisation. The success of the Umbrella service is measured in terms of its performance in supporting the following sexual health priority outcomes: Increasing chlamydia diagnoses in the 15-24 age group Reducing under 18 conceptions Prescribing of long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) excluding injections (Females aged 15-44 years) Reducing new STI diagnoses (excluding chlamydia in under 25s) Reducing the late diagnosis of HIV This Pre Market Engagement Notice outlines the requirements for an Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system to be implemented by the Umbrella Sexual Health Service across Birmingham and Solihull, England. Please note the Contract Value is an estimate factoring in current spend and should only be used as an example only. Please see the Briefing note within the PME documents for more information.

BWCH is an NHS Foundation Trust formed in February 2017, providing care from their two main sites – The Birmingham Women’s Hospital and Birmingham Children’s Hospital. The Trust has more than 641,000 visits from patients each year and employs a workforce of 6,000 staff members. The Trust has a history of innovation and research including conducting the first operation for ectopic pregnancy and caesarean section for hemorrhage in late pregnancy, fitting the world’s first pacemaker into a three-day-old baby, being the first in the world to separate two twins conjoined at the spine, performing the first triple transplant of liver, pancreas and small bowel in the UK, and being the first to launch a community mental health service for patients aged 0-25 years – i.e. Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB). The Trust also hosts the Central and South Genomic Medicine Service, (C&S GMS). This regional service forms part of a network of seven GMS’s across England who together deliver the national genomic testing service and play a pivotal role in embedding genomics in routine care. C&S GMS provides genomic testing across the West Midlands, Oxford and Thames Valley, and Wessex, serving a population of approximately 10 million. C&S GMS is formed across four partner Trusts: Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospital (BWCH), University Hospital Birmingham (UHB), University Hospital Southampton (UHS), and Oxford University Hospital (OUH). This PME outlines the requirements of the C&SGMS to deduplicate testing between sites and enable a Distributed Analysis (DA) model of genomic testing. The requirements documented are vendor agnostic and have been developed to inform the selection and implementation of a DA solution. Our C&S GMS is required to function as one laboratory across several sites and therefore needs to integrate multiple systems to deliver patient care. We want to have a range of functionality across multiple operational activities within a single system. Please note the Contract Value is an estimate factoring in the maximum budget for Year 1 and should only be used as an example only. Please see the Briefing note within the PME documents for more information.

Provision of an outsourced Pharmacy Dispensing Service at UHNM/RWT/WHT via NOE 0535 -Pharmaceutical Services

Premise Cleaning for all sites across the WMAS Trust

***THIS NOTICE IS FOR A MARKET ENGAGEMENT EVENT ONLY***<br/>NHS Arden and Greater East Midlands CSU on behalf of NHS Black Country Integrated Care Board (ICB) are seeking expressions of interest from suitably qualified and experienced providers for the provision of a Vasectomy service.<br/>The service(s) must be located within the geography of the Black Country where all aspects of the service pathway described in this specification are delivered. It is also desirable if Providers have one service location in each Place (Wolverhampton, Walsall, Sandwell and Dudley) to maximise patient choice and reduce inequality. This can be delivered either by Providers working collaboratively together across the System or by Subcontracting arrangements. <br/><br/>Contract Length is expected to be for a period of 2 years with the Commissioner having the option to extend the Contract for up to a further 2 years.<br/><br/>The commissioner has published this Prior Information Notice to support market engagement only at this stage. Further details are provided in II.2.4 below.

***This notice is for information only*** NHS Birmingham and Solihull ICB wish to signal their intent to carry out a competitive process under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 in the near future. The ICB intends to follow up this notice in due course to advertise a market engagement event to enable all interested parties to learn more about the intended service. Further information regarding the market engagement event and any associated published material will be made available both via a further advert on the Find a Tender Service and via the Atamis Health Family system. Please note that no further information will be available until a further notice is published.

***THIS NOTICE IS FOR A MARKET ENGAGEMENT EVENT ONLY***<br/><br/>NHS Arden and Greater East Midlands CSU on behalf of NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board (BSol ICB) is seeking expressions of interest from suitably experienced and qualified providers for the provision of a Lung Cancer Screening Programme across Birmingham and Solihull.<br/><br/>The Commissioner intends to hold a market engagement event via MS Teams on 16th June 2026 at 14:00-15:30, and a 30-minute 1:1 session via MS Teams, with those Providers that request to book a session, on 17th June 2026 and 18th June 2026 between 09:30 and 17:00. These sessions are to provide you with an opportunity to ask further questions in relation to the service specification and/or procurement process. Sessions will be scheduled on a first come first served basis.<br/><br/>Interested parties should express an interest in attending by completing a short questionnaire which can be found on the Atamis Health Family portal (https://atamis-1928.my.site.com/s/Welcome) and search for project C448452.<br/><br/>Registration to the event can be accessed here:<br/>https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/ddee0350-f828-48f6-bc07-a83f967b5f1d@37c354b2-85b0-47f5-b222-07b48d774ee3

Procurement of Body Worn Cameras for West Midlands Ambulance Service

Proposed upgrade of Retail Electronic Point of Sale (EPOS) systems across University Hospitals Birmingham retail areas. Following the award of non-recurrent Capital funding for hardware and software install with recurrent licences supported by the department budgets as reoccurring expenditure for retail services. The project aims to modernise existing till hardware and software infrastructure to improve retail efficiency, payment compatibility, customer experience, reporting capability, and long-term supportability in line with Trust digital and IT governance requirements and security measure of the IT system software itself. Provide service users with new technology and retail experience improved against purchasing and loyalty. The current retail Catering Retail EPOS infrastructure across Queen Elizabeth Good Hope, Heartlands, Solihull hospitals has reached a stage where hardware reliability, software compatibility, and support functionality require review and modernisation to meet 2026 standards. In additional the Trust is also open to review self-serve kiosks in line with till installs. Capital no recurrent funding has now been approved to support: • Replacement of outdated till hardware, screens, till draws, barcode scanners, printers • Upgrade of Retail EPOS operating software by chosen supplier • Integration with existing banking merchant providers World Pay / Verifone • Improved back-office functionality and reporting for Catering • Enhanced customer promotion capability for end user • Improved cyber security and operating system compliance as required by IT • Review is internal SQL hosting or Cloud-based portal hosting off site provides better service delivery needs. The investment will include both: • One-off capital expenditure for hardware and implementation year 1 • Recurring annual revenue costs for software licensing, support, maintenance, and merchant compatibility services within Catering budgets as ongoing costs Please see the Briefing note within the PME documents for more information.