Summary of the contracting process
This procurement process revolves around the NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board awarding contracts for the "Enhanced Service Offer 2025/26 North Birmingham PCN", under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. The services fall within the general-practitioner services industry category and are aimed at improving patient access and life expectancy across five clinical priority areas aligned with the BSol Integrated Care Strategy 2023-2033. The relevant services are located in Birmingham, within the region UKG31, and the procurement method used was limited, warranting a direct award without prior publication.
Contracts commenced on 1st September 2025, with services continuing until 31st March 2026, having an option for a 12-month extension. Contract awards were active as of October 2025, involving supplier surgeries such as Shah Zaman Surgery and Kingsbury Road Medical Centre. This tender provides significant opportunities for businesses that specialise in primary care medical services, particularly those already established within Birmingham and Solihull.
With the focus on enhancing service delivery and contributing to strategic health outcomes, firms with experience in collaborative healthcare frameworks or those capable of scaling operations to meet local health objectives are well-positioned. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) engaged in healthcare delivery have a strong potential for success, as evidenced by the chosen suppliers, all of which are SMEs. This could lead to opportunities for these businesses to expand their service offerings, establish stronger local partnerships, and participate actively in the regional healthcare network.
Lot Information6 Lots
1Shah Zaman Surgery
CancelledThe service aims to support patient access to Primary Care and to improve life expectancy for people of Birmingham and Solihull. Services are aligned to five clinical areas that are prioritised in the BSol Integrated Care Strategy 2023-2033: * Circulatory Disease * Infant mortality * Respiratory Illness * Cancer * Mental Health The ESO provides a consistent service framework for Birmingham and Solihull (BSol) Practices to work both independently and collaboratively and at scale, in order to deliver practice specific improvements and outcomes. The ESO will support practices contribution to the delivery of local and national policy and strategic objectives i.e. Access/Digital Access, Continuity, Public Health Management (PHM) and Health Inequalities (HI), and Collaboration. Some ESO requirements will support practice actions and other areas will involve shared planning and work at Primary Care Network (PCN) or locality level to benefit from at scale development. BSol's GP Provider Support Unit (PSU) will be supporting practices, Primary Care Networks (PCNs) and the six localities to work as effective networks-of-networks where leadership, common solutions and development work can be shared at a greater scale than is possible in a PCN. An award has been made following direct award process A; the contract provides for the services to be provided between 1st September 2025 and 31st March 2026. With an option to extend upto a further 12 months at the sole discretion of commissioner. Additional information: This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) confirmation of contract award notice. This contract has been awarded under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Procurement Act 2023 do not apply to this award. Conflicts of interest identified among Primary Care Commissioning Programme Board: [1]. The non-conflicted members have assessed the nature and risk of this conflict and have decided which steps to take to avoid or manage it. The conflicted member was excluded from the decision-making.
2Kingsbury Road Medical Centre
CancelledThe service aims to support patient access to Primary Care and to improve life expectancy for people of Birmingham and Solihull. Services are aligned to five clinical areas that are prioritised in the BSol Integrated Care Strategy 2023-2033: * Circulatory Disease * Infant mortality * Respiratory Illness * Cancer * Mental Health The ESO provides a consistent service framework for Birmingham and Solihull (BSol) Practices to work both independently and collaboratively and at scale, in order to deliver practice specific improvements and outcomes. The ESO will support practices contribution to the delivery of local and national policy and strategic objectives i.e. Access/Digital Access, Continuity, Public Health Management (PHM) and Health Inequalities (HI), and Collaboration. Some ESO requirements will support practice actions and other areas will involve shared planning and work at Primary Care Network (PCN) or locality level to benefit from at scale development. BSol's GP Provider Support Unit (PSU) will be supporting practices, Primary Care Networks (PCNs) and the six localities to work as effective networks-of-networks where leadership, common solutions and development work can be shared at a greater scale than is possible in a PCN. An award has been made following direct award process A; the contract provides for the services to be provided between 1st September 2025 and 31st March 2026. With an option to extend upto a further 12 months at the sole discretion of commissioner. Additional information: This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) confirmation of contract award notice. This contract has been awarded under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Procurement Act 2023 do not apply to this award. Conflicts of interest identified among Primary Care Commissioning Programme Board: [1]. The non-conflicted members have assessed the nature and risk of this conflict and have decided which steps to take to avoid or manage it. The conflicted member was excluded from the decision-making.
3Poplars Surgery (Dr SN Clay & Partners)
CancelledThe service aims to support patient access to Primary Care and to improve life expectancy for people of Birmingham and Solihull. Services are aligned to five clinical areas that are prioritised in the BSol Integrated Care Strategy 2023-2033: * Circulatory Disease * Infant mortality * Respiratory Illness * Cancer * Mental Health The ESO provides a consistent service framework for Birmingham and Solihull (BSol) Practices to work both independently and collaboratively and at scale, in order to deliver practice specific improvements and outcomes. The ESO will support practices contribution to the delivery of local and national policy and strategic objectives i.e. Access/Digital Access, Continuity, Public Health Management (PHM) and Health Inequalities (HI), and Collaboration. Some ESO requirements will support practice actions and other areas will involve shared planning and work at Primary Care Network (PCN) or locality level to benefit from at scale development. BSol's GP Provider Support Unit (PSU) will be supporting practices, Primary Care Networks (PCNs) and the six localities to work as effective networks-of-networks where leadership, common solutions and development work can be shared at a greater scale than is possible in a PCN. An award has been made following direct award process A; the contract provides for the services to be provided between 1st September 2025 and 31st March 2026. With an option to extend upto a further 12 months at the sole discretion of commissioner. Additional information: This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) confirmation of contract award notice. This contract has been awarded under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Procurement Act 2023 do not apply to this award. Conflicts of interest identified among Primary Care Commissioning Programme Board: [1]. The non-conflicted members have assessed the nature and risk of this conflict and have decided which steps to take to avoid or manage it. The conflicted member was excluded from the decision-making.
4Reservoir Road Surgery
CancelledThe service aims to support patient access to Primary Care and to improve life expectancy for people of Birmingham and Solihull. Services are aligned to five clinical areas that are prioritised in the BSol Integrated Care Strategy 2023-2033: * Circulatory Disease * Infant mortality * Respiratory Illness * Cancer * Mental Health The ESO provides a consistent service framework for Birmingham and Solihull (BSol) Practices to work both independently and collaboratively and at scale, in order to deliver practice specific improvements and outcomes. The ESO will support practices contribution to the delivery of local and national policy and strategic objectives i.e. Access/Digital Access, Continuity, Public Health Management (PHM) and Health Inequalities (HI), and Collaboration. Some ESO requirements will support practice actions and other areas will involve shared planning and work at Primary Care Network (PCN) or locality level to benefit from at scale development. BSol's GP Provider Support Unit (PSU) will be supporting practices, Primary Care Networks (PCNs) and the six localities to work as effective networks-of-networks where leadership, common solutions and development work can be shared at a greater scale than is possible in a PCN. An award has been made following direct award process A; the contract provides for the services to be provided between 1st September 2025 and 31st March 2026. With an option to extend upto a further 12 months at the sole discretion of commissioner. Additional information: This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) confirmation of contract award notice. This contract has been awarded under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Procurement Act 2023 do not apply to this award. Conflicts of interest identified among Primary Care Commissioning Programme Board: [1]. The non-conflicted members have assessed the nature and risk of this conflict and have decided which steps to take to avoid or manage it. The conflicted member was excluded from the decision-making.
5Sutton Road Surgery
CancelledThe service aims to support patient access to Primary Care and to improve life expectancy for people of Birmingham and Solihull. Services are aligned to five clinical areas that are prioritised in the BSol Integrated Care Strategy 2023-2033: * Circulatory Disease * Infant mortality * Respiratory Illness * Cancer * Mental Health The ESO provides a consistent service framework for Birmingham and Solihull (BSol) Practices to work both independently and collaboratively and at scale, in order to deliver practice specific improvements and outcomes. The ESO will support practices contribution to the delivery of local and national policy and strategic objectives i.e. Access/Digital Access, Continuity, Public Health Management (PHM) and Health Inequalities (HI), and Collaboration. Some ESO requirements will support practice actions and other areas will involve shared planning and work at Primary Care Network (PCN) or locality level to benefit from at scale development. BSol's GP Provider Support Unit (PSU) will be supporting practices, Primary Care Networks (PCNs) and the six localities to work as effective networks-of-networks where leadership, common solutions and development work can be shared at a greater scale than is possible in a PCN. An award has been made following direct award process A; the contract provides for the services to be provided between 1st September 2025 and 31st March 2026. With an option to extend upto a further 12 months at the sole discretion of commissioner. Additional information: This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) confirmation of contract award notice. This contract has been awarded under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Procurement Act 2023 do not apply to this award. Conflicts of interest identified among Primary Care Commissioning Programme Board: [1]. The non-conflicted members have assessed the nature and risk of this conflict and have decided which steps to take to avoid or manage it. The conflicted member was excluded from the decision-making.
6Dr Khuroo's Practice
CancelledThe service aims to support patient access to Primary Care and to improve life expectancy for people of Birmingham and Solihull. Services are aligned to five clinical areas that are prioritised in the BSol Integrated Care Strategy 2023-2033: * Circulatory Disease * Infant mortality * Respiratory Illness * Cancer * Mental Health The ESO provides a consistent service framework for Birmingham and Solihull (BSol) Practices to work both independently and collaboratively and at scale, in order to deliver practice specific improvements and outcomes. The ESO will support practices contribution to the delivery of local and national policy and strategic objectives i.e. Access/Digital Access, Continuity, Public Health Management (PHM) and Health Inequalities (HI), and Collaboration. Some ESO requirements will support practice actions and other areas will involve shared planning and work at Primary Care Network (PCN) or locality level to benefit from at scale development. BSol's GP Provider Support Unit (PSU) will be supporting practices, Primary Care Networks (PCNs) and the six localities to work as effective networks-of-networks where leadership, common solutions and development work can be shared at a greater scale than is possible in a PCN. An award has been made following direct award process A; the contract provides for the services to be provided between 1st September 2025 and 31st March 2026. With an option to extend upto a further 12 months at the sole discretion of commissioner. Additional information: This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) confirmation of contract award notice. This contract has been awarded under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Procurement Act 2023 do not apply to this award. Conflicts of interest identified among Primary Care Commissioning Programme Board: [1]. The non-conflicted members have assessed the nature and risk of this conflict and have decided which steps to take to avoid or manage it. The conflicted member was excluded from the decision-making.
