Solihull: contracts, suppliers and what is coming next.
Solihull is a metropolitan borough in the West Midlands. We hold 260 of its award notices, 6 contracts due to end within 18 months, and 4 committee papers from the last 120 days that talk about buying. Everything here comes from public records: award notices the council itself published, and the papers it publishes before each committee meeting.
Data updated: 20 September 2026 (committee papers) | 18 September 2026 (award notices)
GovLeads reads Solihull's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 134 of those 260 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Solihull, taken from the council's own calendar. Papers usually appear five clear working days beforehand, and we read them the night they land.
| Date | Committee |
|---|---|
| 21 Sep 2026 | Audit Committee |
| 21 Sep 2026 | Economic Development, Managed Growth and Skills Scrutiny Board |
| 22 Sep 2026 | Health and Adult Social Care Scrutiny Board |
| 23 Sep 2026 | CPH Children and Education Decision Session |
| 23 Sep 2026 | CPH Economy, Business & Skills Decision Session |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Solihull award notice we hold. Values on multi-supplier frameworks are shared across the suppliers named on them, so a place on a large framework does not inflate a single firm.
| Supplier | Awarded value | Awards |
|---|---|---|
| Opus People Solutions | £50.0m | 1 |
| Brake Bros Limited | £10.9m | 1 |
| ABL Health Limited | £2.2m | 2 |
| Meadway Private Hire (Birmingham) | £1.6m | 7 |
| Midland Foods Limited | £1.3m | 1 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Solihull has notified in the last year. Awards sharing a title and end date are collapsed into a single row, so a framework or dynamic purchasing system appears once rather than once per supplier.
| Award | Supplier | Value | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOL - Managed Services for Temporary Agency Resource 2026 | Opus People Solutions | £50.0m | Framework call-off |
| SOL - Home to School Transport DPS14 award notices, shown once | framework, 14 suppliers | not stated | Open |
| SOL - School Bus and Coach DPS3 award notices, shown once | framework, 3 suppliers | not stated | Open |
| SOL Drug & Alcohol Services 2027 | Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust | not stated | Direct award |
| SOL Governor Service Stsytem 2024 | The Key Support Services Limited | not stated | Direct award |
How the money is awarded
4% of Solihull's awarded value went through open competition and under 1% was awarded directly. Directly awarded work is the part of the market that never reaches a competitive notice, so it is the part you have to see coming upstream.
- Framework/DPS 93% (£69.4m)
- Other/Unspecified 4% (£2.7m)
- Competed 4% (£2.7m)
- Direct under 1% (£166,667)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Solihull, of those with an end date inside 18 months. A re-procurement decision normally reaches a committee months before the contract itself runs out, which is the point at which scope is still moveable, so the months-left column matters as much as the value.
| Ends | Months left | Contract | Supplier | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 Apr 2027 | 7 | SOL- School Bus and Coach Transport2 award notices, shown once | framework, 2 suppliers | £1.4m |
| 30 Nov 2026 | 2 | SOL - Meat and Meat Products | Midland Foods Limited | £1.3m |
| 31 Oct 2026 | 1 | School Bus and Coach Transport2 award notices, shown once | framework, 2 suppliers | £712,500 |
| 30 Jun 2027 | 9 | SOL-Money Management (Appointee and Deputy) Services 2024 | Warwickshire Independent Advocacy Alliance | £627,680 |
| 2 Jan 2028 | 15 | SOL-School Bus and Coach Transport2 award notices, shown once | framework, 2 suppliers | £470,250 |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Solihull published in the last four months whose title uses the language of buying: a tender, an award, an extension, a gateway report, a waiver, or a procurement strategy, policy or performance report. It is a title match, so the odd paper lands here on a word rather than a decision.
| Meeting | Paper | Committee |
|---|---|---|
| 2 Sep 2026 | Strategic Redesign of Local Authority Building Control Charging Frameworks and Introduction of…Additionally, framework agreements for external specialists (Fire, PV, Heat Pumps) will need to be tendered or reviewed to support the 'Individually Determined' fee model. | CPH Climate Change & Planning Decision Session |
| 20 Jul 2026 | Council’s Performance Management Framework - Annual Update…the Audit Committee’s work programme, it has been agreed to give an annual update on the Council’s performance management framework and arrangements to provide the Audit Committee with ongoing assurance that the Council has effective performance management arrangements in place. | Audit Committee |
| 30 Jun 2026 | 2026 Solihull Local Outcomes Framework…LARC Reduce teenage conceptions Outcomes for People Wider determinants Our Services Solihull Outcomes FrameworkBSol ICS Outcomes Framework Carers included in discussion about cared for person Fuel poverty (low income, low energy efficiency methodology) Proportion of children aged 0-15 living in… | Solihull Health & Wellbeing Board |
| 30 Jun 2026 | Solihull HWBB ICB Strategic Commissioning NarrativeExecutive Summary This report provides the Health and Wellbeing Board with a Summary of the ICB Cluster’s Strategic Commissioning Plan and developing approach to becoming a Strategic Commissioner. | Solihull Health & Wellbeing Board |
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Nearby councils
Suppliers rarely sell to one council alone. These are the authorities next door, and the ones covering the same ground at a different tier.
Councils it borders
Covering the same ground
Where Solihull spends most
The service areas taking the largest share of awarded value here. Each one has its own page explaining what we watch for.
Where this comes from
Awards, suppliers and expiry dates come from award notices published to Contracts Finder and Find a Tender by Solihull. The award data set was last refreshed on 18 September 2026, so notices published since then are not yet counted here. Values are as notified; where a notice names several suppliers, the value is shared across them.
Committee papers and meeting dates come from Solihull's own published papers, at https://democracy.solihull.gov.uk. Every paper linked above is on the council's own site. Committee-paper figures were extracted on 20 September 2026.
What we leave out. A notice naming more than one buying authority is excluded, because it does not say how the value splits between them. So are notices from bodies that share this council's name but are separate organisations, such as the local college or NHS trust. Both would otherwise be counted here as Solihull's.
Nothing on this page is modelled, estimated or inferred. Every number is a count or a sum over those two public sources. Where a figure would be a guess, it is left out.