Interserve Regulatory News (IRV)

30 Oct 2006 07:00

INTERSERVE WINS ‚£40m PILOT NHS PROCURE SCOTLAND CONTRACT AT FIFE Interserve, the services, maintenance and building group, has been awarded thefirst pilot project for NHS Procure Scotland. The award by NHS Fife Board isworth over ‚£40 million and involves work at two major hospitals in Fife:Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy and Queen Margaret Hospital in Dunfermline.NHS Procure Scotland is a procurement route developed by NHS Fife for NHSScotland to deliver capitally-funded healthcare facilities. It is based on thesuccessful ProCure21 model used in England and covers both new andrefurbishment healthcare schemes.Interserve, working collaboratively with NHS Fife, will deliver its services inthree phases. The first of these will be an enabling works package which willprepare the Victoria Hospital site for the creation of a new hospital facilitywhich is being procured separately under PPP. It includes the relocation of carparks, diversion of utilities and ground remediation. Other sundry works, suchas a service yard, mortuary, roads and a generating facility, will follow inthe second phase and will complete at the same time as the PPP development,anticipated for 2010.The third phase is the main element of Interserve's contract and comprises amajor reconfiguration of Victoria and Queen Margaret hospitals once the PPPfacility is in place. In this phase the hospitals will be remodelled and theirservices redesigned to take advantage of the new capacity offered by the PPPdevelopment."We have a strong record in the health sector," said Adrian Ringrose, ChiefExecutive of Interserve Plc. "Our experience as one of the leading partners inthe NHS's ProCure21 programme has shown that the effectiveness of the supplychain is vital in delivering the facilities on time and to budget. For thiscontract we shall be using several Scottish suppliers alongside our ProCure21partners, and together we look forward to providing high quality products thatthe people of Fife can be proud of."Dennis O'Keeffe, NHS Fife's Projects Director, stated, "This is an importantmilestone for NHS Fife and for the NHS in Scotland, and would not have beenpossible without the forward-thinking support of the Scottish Executive HealthDepartment and the generous help and collaboration afforded by the ProCure21Team within the Department of Health's Estates and Facilities Department."This is the first time that a public sector client in Scotland has used thelatest (3rd Edition) of the NEC Contract (NEC3). NHS Fife's choice of NEC3 isconsistent with our desire to move away from a traditional reactive andhindsight-based contract strategy and to instead use a modern partneringapproach." - Ends - For further information please contact:Giles Scott 0118 960 2307Head of Corporate CommunicationsNeil Bennett / Elizabeth Morley 020 7379 5151MaitlandAbout InterserveInterserve Plc (www.interserve.com) is a services, maintenance and buildinggroup. It creates buildings and other structures for clients in the public andprivate sectors, maintains many different types of buildings, the operationalsystems that support them and a range of plant and equipment in specialistfields, and co-ordinates a host of background services to keep its clients'operations running smoothly and efficiently while they concentrate on theircore business. Interserve is based in the UK and is listed on the London StockExchange. It employs 26,000 people worldwide and has revenue of ‚£1.5 billion.ENDINTERSERVE PLC