At a glance
Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council has awarded £30.5bn across 251 suppliers, with 398 live contracts.
Why: Top supplier share 65% · 80 open notices now · 0 awards in last 90 d (£0) · SME share 51% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 4 modifications in last 90 d.
About this buyer
Mission, scope and statutory context.
Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council is a contracting authority, based in UKG32. Tracks 342 published notices and 204 awards on PublicSupply.
Spend profile
Award value by month — rolling 24 months. Line shows 12-month moving average.
Contract pipeline
Forward flow — planned notices through to completed awards in the last 90 days.
Planned
69
Open (bidding)
80
Awarded (90d)
0
Frameworks open
0
Procurement mix
How this buyer procures — by procedure, instrument, and publication source.
Contract type
Instrument type
Awarded contracts · 398 live
All contracts with a published award notice where Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council is the contracting authority.
| Title | Supplier | CPV | Value | Awarded | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SOL30248 Sunhaven Extra Care Scheme | — | 85300000 | — | — | planned |
| Residential and Nursing Care Home Beds Framework | — | 85000000 | £1.8mest. | — | planned |
| Residential and Nursing Care Home Beds Framework | — | 85000000 | £1.0mest. | — | planned |
| SOL30308 SOL Retrofit Services – Able to Pay 2026 | — | 50700000 | £0est. | — | planning |
| SOL30308 SOL Retrofit Services – Able to Pay 2026 | — | 50700000 | £0est. | — | planning |
| WCC - Highways Maintenance Contract | BALFOUR BEATTY LIVING PLACES LIMITED | — | — | active | |
| SOL30357 SOL Ofsted-Dual Reg Accommodation Young People 16–25 | — | 85311000 | £0est. | — | planning |
| Warwickshire County Council Framework Contract for the Provision of Engineering and Construction Works 2027 | — | 45000000 | — | — | planned |
| SOL Public Health Funerals and Exhumations 2026 | — | 98370000 | £45kest. | — | active |
| SOL30054 SOL SENDIAS 2026 | Family Action | £832kest. | — | active |
Top suppliers · by total award value
Ranked by cumulative awarded value. YoY = last 12 months vs prior 12 months.
Category spend breakdown
By CPV division · lifetime awards
Activity heatmap
Award volume by CPV division × month. Darker = more £ awarded.
Commercial & procurement leadership
Who signs off contracts, owns frameworks and runs SME engagement.
Curated leadership roster
Chief commercial officer, framework owners, SME lead and clinical sign-offs per buyer. Top-50 contracting authorities first, rolling out by sector.
Modifications · 4 in 90 d
Variations logged under Procurement Act 2023 s.74. Above-tolerance modifications attract a flag.
Per-modification s.74 classification + tolerance flagging
We see 4 notices tagged with a modification flag in the last 90 d. Next phase parses each one against PA 2023 s.74 limbs and surfaces above-tolerance flags.
Compliance & transparency
FOIA performance, statutory disclosures & prompt payment.
FOIA & prompt-payment ingestion
Notice timeliness and modification flags are derivable today. FOIA refusal rate, prompt-payment %, KPI reporting and net-zero plans need new data sources — work scoped, ingestion next quarter.
SME & social value
Performance against Cabinet Office targets & PPN 06/20.
target 33%
Peer benchmark
vs other buyers in the same type. Highlighted row = this buyer.
Compare against the peer group
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News mentions
Major UK press & trade publications.
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Statutory & accountability
Legal status, identifiers & accountable officers.
Identifiers & contact
- Type
- Contracting authority
- Region
- UKG32
- Contact
- Corporate Procurement Service
- mschaeferbarthold@solihull.gov.uk
Board & accountable officers
Accountable officer + board roster
Pulled from gov.uk for arm's-length bodies and from Companies House for company-form buyers — chair, CEO, SRO and sign-off authority per contract band.
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