COMP: Sight Tests & Spectacle Dispensing to CYP in Special Educational Settings

About the buyer

NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board commissions health and care services across Birmingham and Solihull, and buys through its own Procurement Collaborative. The Procurement Collaborative oversees procurement decisions across the wider Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care System. Corporate functions such as procurement are also delivered under contract by a local Commissioning Support Unit and an NHS trust. Delivery partners, including those for the WorkWell programme, are chosen through open procurement processes. Supplier contracts carry a social value weighting of 20%, double the NHS's national minimum.

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 Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board's contract awards have been in health and social work and business services.