NHS Black Country Integrated Care Board: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
NHS ODS: STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP·Central government·West Midlands·Wolverhampton
Official UK PPONPCXW-1342-CXYVWebsiteblackcountry.icb.nhs.uk ↗
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.
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Notices published in the last 12 months.
Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.
Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 8 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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How much of this buyer’s work goes to its three most frequent suppliers.
Share of its awarded tenders that name at least one of the top three. Each tender is counted once.
23 awarded tenders, 27 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
What they buyi
What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
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What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
85 Health and social work services28 procedures · 82%33 Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals2 procedures · 6%90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental2 procedures · 6%50 Repair and maintenance services1 procedures · 3%75 Administration, defence and social security1 procedures · 3%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting1 procedures · 3%How they buyi
How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
Last 24 months · 34 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
- Contract 97% (33 notices)
- Framework 3% (1 notices)
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Which procedures buyers here use.
Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.
- Limited / restricted 47% (16 notices)
- Open 29% (10 notices)
- Route not published 24% (8 notices)
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.
Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 8 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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How long this buyer takes to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from deadline to first award notice, on this buyer’s own tenders.
Based on 3 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on 34 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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Do this buyer’s awards land above or below its own estimates.
Each lot’s published estimate against its award, on this buyer’s competitions, like for like.
Based on 3 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
Who wins herei
Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
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Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
All published awards naming a supplier · ranked by distinct procedures, not pounds · panel and call-off entries inflate award records
| Supplier | Procedures | Share | Last 24m | Award records | Last activity |
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| Dudley Crossroads | 1 | 4.3% | 1 | 1 | 12 Feb 2025 |
| Dudley Stroke Association | 1 | 4.3% | 1 | 1 | 12 Feb 2025 |
| Connect Health Ltd | 1 | 4.3% | 1 | 1 | 17 Mar 2025 |
| AJ Mobility Ltd | 1 | 4.3% | 1 | 1 | 2 Sept 2026 |
| Broomwell Healthwatch Limited | 1 | 4.3% | 1 | 1 | 12 Feb 2025 |
| Community Health & Eyecare Ltd | 1 | 4.3% | 1 | 1 | 13 Jul 2026 |
| Humanitas Healthcare Services Ltd | 1 | 4.3% | 1 | 1 | 25 Sept 2025 |
| Lymphcare UK CIC | 1 | 4.3% | 1 | 1 | 12 Feb 2025 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 13% of 23 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 27 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.
Middle value of the same awards as the total above.
Largest published awards iThe biggest published awards. Awards to a single supplier with a published value, largest first, so you can check the totals against the notice. A repeated framework total can appear here. Open the notice to check. | Supplier | Awarded | Term | Published value |
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| Community Musculoskeletal (MSK) Wolverhampton Service - NHS Black Country ICB (C317779) | Connect Health Ltd | — | — | £15,300,000 † |
| Community Dental Services for Wolverhampton [Direct Award Process C] | The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust | — | — | £12,145,521 † |
| Holland Park Surgery APMS Contract | Holland Park Surgery | — | — | £8,058,915 † |
| Dermatology Service | Community Health & Eyecare Ltd | — | — | £7,640,681 † |
| Dudley Wheelchair Assessment and Equipment Service | AJ Mobility Ltd | — | 3 yrs · up to 5 yrs | £6,749,999 † ≈ £2.3m/yr |
Recent procedures
Latest 48 of 48 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Dudley Wheelchair Assessment and Equipment ServiceRepair and maintenance services of wheelchairs | Awarded / complete | 2 Sept 2026 | £6,750,000 |
| Provision of Orthodontics Services for Black CountryOrthodontic services | Awarded / complete | 27 Aug 2026 | — |
| Provision of Orthodontics Services for Black CountryOrthodontic services | Awarded / complete | 26 Aug 2026 | — |
| Provision of Orthodontics Services for Black CountryOrthodontic services | Awarded / complete | 26 Aug 2026 | — |
| Provision of Orthodontics Services for Black CountryOrthodontic services | Awarded / complete | 26 Aug 2026 | — |
| Vasectomy Service for NHS Black Country ICBHealth services | Open | 21 Jul 2026 | £1,623,000 |
| Dermatology ServiceDermatology services | Awarded / complete | 13 Jul 2026 | £8,500,000 |
| Assisted Conception ServiceHealth services | Planned | 1 Jul 2026 | £1,511,736 |
| Healthcare Clinical Waste Services for Primary Care: 11 Midlands NHS ICBs (2)Clinical-waste collection services | Open | 15 Apr 2026 | £37,200,000 |
| Healthcare Clinical Waste Services for Primary Care: 11 Midlands Region NHS ICBsClinical-waste collection services | Awarded / complete | 2 Apr 2026 | £37,200,000 |
| Support for Primary Care Cervical Screening ServiceAdministrative healthcare services | Awarded / complete | 6 Mar 2026 | £594,000 |
| Community Dental Services for Wolverhampton [Direct Award Process C]Dental practice and related services | Awarded / complete | 2 Mar 2026 | — |
| Dudley Wheelchair ServiceWheelchairs | Planned | 21 Oct 2025 | £914,000 |
| Extended Minor SurgeryHealth services | Awarded / complete | 25 Sept 2025 | — |
| COVID Medicines Delivery UnitHealth services | Awarded / complete | 17 Sept 2025 | £163,750 |
| Holland Park Surgery APMS ContractGeneral-practitioner services | Awarded / complete | 3 Sept 2025 | — |
| Interpretation and Translation Services (BC)Interpretation services | Planned | 22 Aug 2025 | £1,120,000 |
| COVID Medicines Delivery Unit - Expressions of Interest - NHS Black Country ICBHealth services | Planned | 20 Jun 2025 | £163,750 |
| Maternity and Neonatal Voices Partnership Coordination Service - NHS Black Country ICBHealth and social work services | Open | 1 Apr 2025 | £360,000 |
| Community Musculoskeletal (MSK) Wolverhampton Service - NHS Black Country ICB (C317779)Health services | Awarded / complete | 17 Mar 2025 | £17,000,000 |
Data coverage & method
- Source: Find a Tender OCDS releases; mixed PCR 2015 / Procurement Act 2023 history — no legal-regime label is applied.
- Counts are procedures (one notice family), not lots. Authority cluster = canonical buyer plus beneficiary and procuring-entity roles.
- Published procedure values exist on a minority of notices; their lifetime sum (£156m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 26 award records on 22 procedures (26 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 24 values come from the contract record when the award carried none.
- Bid counts, deadline-to-award, amendments and award-vs-estimate come from the nightly buyer analytics row; each figure’s own method and sample is behind its , the long form on Methodology.
- Contract end dates: 2 of 26 published contracts carry a period end; 0 end within 18 months, 0 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (6 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)
Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
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