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FOI Request

Disclosure ID
FOI/02437
Request Date
May 11, 2018
Subject
Soft Facilities
Description
  1. Please state the full name of your Trust
  2. Please state which Soft FM service lines (if any) are outsourced such as:
    § Patient Catering
    § Retail Catering
    § Cleaning
    § Ward Hostess
    § Portering
    § Security
    § Car parking
    § Reception
    § Helpdesk
    § Waste management
    § Ancillary services such as Pest Control, Window Cleaning, Hygiene Services, Grounds maintenance, linen and laundry
    § Other – please specify
  3. Please state the site names where those services take place
  4. Please state which company (s) holds which Soft FM service lines
  5. Please state the core contract start date and end date of your current Soft FM services.
  6. Please state whether there are any provisions for contract extensions (including how many years and the extension terms). If yes, please state if the contract extension been awarded
  7. Please state the annual total value of each service line for the year 2017/18?
  8. At the end of the contract term, does the Trust intend to go to market to outsource the services again
  9. If not, what options will the Trust consider (such as reverting to an in house service delivery or establishing a wholly owned subsidiary of the Trust?)
  10. If no Soft FM services are currently outsourced, is the Trust likely to consider outsourcing during the next 5 years
Response
  1. Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  2. For Blackpool Victoria Hospitals only, main outsourced services with names provided are:
    – Retail units x3 – retail catering and grocery providers – Compass operating Costa Coffee, WH Smith and M&S – 10 year contracts WEF 01/01/14
    – Cleaning – Medirest – 5 year contract WEF 01/04/16 – option to extend a further 2 years
    – Laundry – Express Laundry – 5 year contract WEF 01/04/11 – extended additional 2 years, currently in the process of a European tender
    – Waste contracts for clinical, domestic and some other waste streams but not the waste collection process within the
    – Blackpool Victoria – primarily SRCL extended from the Consortium original contract and Biffa – currently in discussion with Shared Business Services re new contracts
    – Pest control – undertaken by Atlas for the entire Trust.
    – Hygiene services – Pristine Hygiene – terminates Sep 18, possible extension
    – Window cleaning – D+I terminates May 19
  3. Blackpool Victoria Hospital, Clifton, Artificial Eye Service and Fleetwood Hospital
  4. – As above(Q2)
    – Atlas started March 2017
  5. As above
  6. As above
  7. – Confidential
    – Atlas – Confidential
  8. Yes
  9. N/A
  10. Some are outsourced so question no longer applicable
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