Facilities management services

Tender description

HealthTrust Europe LLP is seeking to establish a framework agreement for the supply of Soft Facilities Management Services. This framework will be established to allow public sector organisations to award contracts in a more cost effective and less time consuming manner. HTE is a central purchasing body who is able to carry out this tender exercise by virtue of its appointment as an agent of UHCW. Notwithstanding HTE's relationship with UHCW, it is HTE that will conduct this tender exercise and will execute the resultant framework agreement with successful bidders. This tender exercise is for the benefit of all the public and voluntary bodies listed further below in this Section II.1.5). Consolidation of the following services — Catering Services; Cleaning Services; Pest Control Services; Linen and Laundry Services; Security Services and Grounds Maintenance Services. General Catering and Corporate Catering which includes canteen services for visitors, staff and patients. Patient meals which are prepared both on site and off site as ready prepared meals. Catering services will also include water coolers, water bottles, water dispensers and filtration devices, the supply and maintenance of vending machines and replenishment of hot and cold food and drinks. Catering equipment and supplies which may properly be described as Catering Services. General Cleaning and Window Cleaning which are supplied in accordance to the NHS Hospital Cleaning Standards. Domestic and clinical areas, patient areas, internal and external window cleaning, bespoke 1 off cleans such as high level cleaning which may require mechanical equipment such as ladders and cherry pickers other services which may properly be described as Cleaning Services. Lot 4- Pest Control — which includes routine inspection, pest eradication, and prevention of infestation and vermin control including the provision of materials such as poison, traps, appliances. Such pest control and disposal services are to be carried out inside and outside of any of the Contracting Authority's occupied and unoccupied buildings, offices, hospital wards, outhouses, mortuaries, waste yards and kitchen areas and other services which maybe properly be described as Pest Control. Linen and Laundry Services — which include transport of used/infected linen and clean laundered linen, storage and sorted in accordance with CFPP01-04 (as amended) along with the wash and return and reusable theatre 3 barrier textiles. Supply and/or hire of linen and wash and return which items are commonly described as bedding, gowns, towels, tunics, uniform, and clothing for infants, juniors and adults and other services which may properly be described as Linen and Laundry Services. Security Services which include manned guarding services, monitoring and patrol of Contracting Authorities premises and surrounding area, CCTV/alarm monitoring and response, car park management, car parking security systems, electronic security systems installations and maintenance (CCTV, intruder, fire and access control), lone worker protection and monitoring cash collection and transfer and other services which may properly be described as Security Services. Provision of a complete range of high quality and technically advanced parking control systems as well as equipment supply and installation. Grounds Maintenance –advice, maintenance and replanting of grounds including supply and maintenance of internal and external planting, grass cutting, boarders and shrubberies, road and pavement sweeping, litter clearance, supply and decoration of Christmas trees, leaf clearance, weed treatment, tree surgery, hedge cutting and laying, insect control, snow clearance and gritting of roads, pavements and car parks and other services which may properly be described as Grounds Maintenance.