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University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Individual Placement Support Services

HealthcareCPV 85100000
Value£11.5m
Deadline14 Sept 2026
Published4 Aug 2026
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 4 Aug 202640 days leftCloses 14 Sept 2026
Who to contact
Ali Babu
ali.babu@uhb.nhs.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit
Open the submissions portal

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£11.5mtotal contract value
median £380k
this tender£0£16.5m

This is a large award for Health & Social Care — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 32,734 valued Health & Social Care tenders in our corpus.

When this comes round again

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust publishes Health & Social Care work continuously — 85 notices, roughly one every 12 days. This is a stream to watch, not a cycle to wait for.

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The brief

This is a PSR Competitive Notice for Individual Placement Support Services.

The full detail of the service requirements can be found within the tender documentation on the Atamis portal.<br/><br/>This contract will be for three years, running from 2027-2030 with the option to extend for a further two years (1+1), any extensions will be based upon available funding.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

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This is a PSR Competitive Notice

This is a PSR Competitive Notice for Individual Placement Support Services.

Sentences from the notice that state an obligation, surfaced automatically and shown in the order they appear. Not an exhaustive list — always confirm against the tender documents.

What it takes to bid this

4580 daysof bid-team effort
£30.8k£54.8kat typical UK bid-team rates

Typical UK bid effort for the £10m+ band — an estimate, not a quote.

Qualify & bid/no-bid ~10% · SQ / PQQ ~20% · Written response ~55% · Review & presentation ~15%

Typical for this category — confirm against the ITT pack

  • Hold at bidCQC registration / safeguarding policies
  • Plan for deliveryDBS-checked staff & vetting process
  • Plan for deliveryTUPE (incumbent staff often transfer)
  • Show at bidComparable references / case studies
  • Hold at bidFinancial standing (accounts, often ~2× contract value turnover)
  • Hold at bidInsurance cover (PL / EL, often PI)
  • Show at bidSocial value commitments

Hold at bid = pass/fail conditions of participation. Show at bid = scored in the quality response. Plan for delivery = contract obligations from day one.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06db6b
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
073762-2026
View the original notice on Find a Tender

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source data © Crown copyright.

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