Official UK procurement notice
Resuscitation Training for Birmingham & Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust
Authority: Birmingham & Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust (Central government)·On behalf of: University Hosptials Birmigham NHS Trust
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe BSOL Procurement Collaborative, hosted by University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is seeking to award a contract for Resuscitation Training on behalf of Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust.
The training will comprise of provision of Resuscitation training, consisting of, as a minimum:
Both on and off-site training
E-Learning
Classroom learning
Delegate support
Administrative management
The Supplier shall also support the provision of clinical simulations to evidence what additional support and training is required.
The Supplier shall also be required to provide support for medical emergency reviews.
All training must meet national NHS and Resuscitation Council requirements.
The anticipated contract will be for a minimum of 3 years.
The anticipated annual number of training places to be delivered is as follows:
Quantity: 1030 Immediate Life Support (ILS) course places
Quantity: 96 Mother and Baby Life Support places
Quantity: 48 Adult and Paediatric Emergency Life Support places
Quantity: 72 Casualty Simulation session places
The actual numbers will be confirmed in the tender documents.
Training will be required at multiple sites/locations throughout the Birmingham and Solihull area. This may include training at Authority premises or at off-site locations.
Authority Profile
The organisation provides a comprehensive mental healthcare service for the residents of Birmingham and Solihull and to communities in the West Midlands and beyond.
The service operates out of more than 40 sites and serves a culturally diverse population of 1.3 million spread out over 172 square miles and has an annual income of £626m, a dedicated workforce of almost 5,000 staff and a range of local and regional partnerships, makes this service one of the most complex and specialist mental health foundation trusts in the country.
The services catchment population is ethnically diverse and characterised in places by high levels of deprivation, low earnings, and unemployment. These factors create a higher requirement for access to health services and a greater need for innovative ways of engaging people from the most affected areas.
CPV: Health and first-aid training services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Birmingham & Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust buys Health and first-aid training services (CPV 8056), and who usually turns up
Birmingham & Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Health and first-aid training services (CPV 8056) →
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Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside West Midlands.
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Half of these awards were announced within 77 days of the bid deadline.
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1 bid40% / 40%
2–320% / 7%
4–60% / 13%
7+40% / 40%
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Below estimate23%
Within ±2%46%
Above estimate31%
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Lot #1CPV 8056Published estimate£426k
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1 bid17%
2–331%
4–610%
7+41%
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About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 28 Oct 2025, 10:00 GMT
- Last source update
- 28 Oct 2025, 10:00 GMT
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-068815- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
28 Oct 2025 → 1 Apr 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published358 days ago28 Oct 2025, 10:00 GMT
- Market engagement337 days ago18 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT
Prior to the start of the formal procurement process, the BSOL Procurement Collaborative seeks expressions of interest from potential Suppliers wishing to tender for this opportunity.
We reserve the right to exchange information about goods and services to be provided, this may take the form of a market engagement event and/or issue a Supplier questionnaire.
Suppliers wishing to participate, should express an interest in the first instance via the health family single e-Commercial system portal. (Atamis) by Monday 17th November 2025.
- Tender notice expected324 days ago1 Dec 2025, 23:59 GMT
- Contract starts204 days ago1 Apr 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published28 Oct 2025, 10:00 GMTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
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- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeOther public bodies
- University Hosptials Birmigham NHS TrustProcess contact pointProcuring entityBirmingham & Solihull Procurement Collaborative, hosted by University Hospitals Birmingham will be managing the procurement of this contract
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender