Signal · Supply Chain & Logistics

Contract award: Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust - Heat and Power Supply and Heat Pump Operation – Birmingham Children's Hospital (GBP 73,302,983)

UK Find a Tender Service OCDS API Authoritative source Published 12th October 2026 United Kingdom

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What the source reported

Source-reported

Contract award notice published on UK Find a Tender by Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust. Procurement: Heat and Power Supply and Heat Pump Operation – Birmingham Children's Hospital. Description: Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust (the “Trust”) intends to enter into a contract with Birmingham District Energy Company (“BDEC”) on the terms described below (the "Contract"). The parties to the Contract shall be BWC Management Services Limited (“BWCMSL”) (a wholly owned subsidiary of the Trust), and/or the Trust (or in each case, any successors thereof) (with the contracting Category: goods. Value: GBP 73,302,983 (stated award/contract value). Supplier(s): BIRMINGHAM DISTRICT ENERGY COMPANY LIMITED.

Publication: UK Find a Tender Service OCDS API · Government/Regulator
Published: 12th October 2026
Original report: find-tender.service.gov.uk

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What ProcIntel recorded

ProcIntel-derived

Category: Supply Chain & Logistics
Geography: United Kingdom
Organisations: None identified
Collected: 12th October 2026 · 14:52

Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.

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Significance 1 · Low

Confidence 2 · Low

Initial Significance Low (15.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (6.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Impact-Scale Specificity (0.0/10 points). Initial Confidence Low (39/100, data sufficiency: Insufficient). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (40.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Specificity (0.0/20 points). Capped at 39 (Low) -- insufficient structured evidence to support a higher Confidence reading, regardless of source authority.

Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact
Limiting factor: Impact-Scale Specificity

Possibly the same underlying story as Fortum Power and Heat Oy: unavailability — flagged automatically, never merged automatically.

What the source reported

What ProcIntel recorded

Initial assessment ⓘMore about Initial Signal AssessmentProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.

Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.