Enhanced Service Offer 2025/26 Pioneers Integrated Partnership PCN
A Contract Award Notice
by NHS BIRMINGHAM AND SOLIHULL INTEGRATED CARE BOARD
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Type
- Contract (Services)
- Duration
- not specified
- Value
- £342K
- Sector
- HEALTH
- Published
- 02 Oct 2025
- Delivery
- not specified
- Deadline
- n/a
Concepts
Location
Birmingham
2 buyers
3 suppliers
- Tower Hill Partnership Birmingham
- Handsworth Medical Practice Birmingham
- Heath Street Health Centre Birmingham
Description
The 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 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.
Lot Division
1 | Tower Hill Partnership |
2 | Handsworth Medical Practice |
3 | Heath Street Health Centre |
Award Detail
1 | Tower Hill Partnership (Birmingham)
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2 | Handsworth Medical Practice (Birmingham)
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3 | Heath Street Health Centre (Birmingham)
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Award Criteria
No realistic alternative provision | 100.0 |
NONE | _ |
CPV Codes
- 85121100 - General-practitioner services
Indicators
- Award on basis of price and quality.
Legal Justification
The incumbent provider (Birmingham and Solihull GP practices) have successfully delivered these services to the required standard over the past 18 months and are the only suppliers who can ensure immediate continuity without disruption. Their proven track record and familiarity with the requirements ensures continuity and minimises risk.
Other 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 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award. The Primary Care Commissioning and Performance Board (PCCPB) for Birmingham and Solihull ICB approved the framework for the 2025/26 Enhanced Service Offer on 11 February 2025. Conflicts of interest are declared at every PCCPB meeting and there is a standing conflict declared for Dr Mike Baker, ICB Clinical Director and GP.
Reference
- FTS 061585-2025