Acute Independent Hospital Services for West Yorkshire - NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board

About the buyer

NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board is the strategic commissioner for health and care across West Yorkshire, one of England's integrated care boards. Five place-based teams, covering Bradford District and Craven, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds and Wakefield District, commission services locally. Tenders appear on Find a Tender and Contracts Finder alongside the Board's own notices. Contracting follows the Provider Selection Regime, adapted to weigh social value across six dimensions. The Board became the country's first 'Keep it Local' integrated care system, prioritising local voluntary and community sector 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 West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board's contract awards have been in health and social work, software and information systems and business services.