Low & Medium Secure Beds

About the buyer

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust is an NHS trust providing mental health services across Birmingham, Solihull and the wider West Midlands. Procurement runs through the BSOL Procurement Collaborative, hosted by University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. That collaborative covers five NHS trusts across the Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care System, including this Trust. Tenders appear on Find a Tender and Contracts Finder, alongside NHS-wide procurement portals. The Trust has used the Provider Selection Regime for forensic inpatient GP services, run through the BSOL collaborative.

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 Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust's contract awards have been in health and social work, education and training, and construction work.