The Authority is looking for cleaning, catering and portering services to replace the current, bundled service contracts held by NCHC and NSFT. The cleaning service will, in many cases, be in clinical areas and so compliance with relevant national standards are applicable. The catering service is essentially a hostess service — the serving of cook-chill or cook-freeze meals on site.

The estimated total value of the resultant Framework has been calculated as follows:

— 4 year contract for each service for NCHC = 10 200 000 GBP approx,

— 4 year contract for each service for NSFT = 15 500 000 GBP approx.

The Authorities are able to put additional contracts in place prior to the end of the framework period for up to another 4 years. This would bring the maximum potential value for this framework to 52 000 000 GBP approx.

The remaining 8 000 000 GBP has been included to allow other named Authorities to utilise the Framework Agreement during the term.

This lot of the framework is for cleaning services within the NHS. As such, cleaning services required include the following: scheduled and reactive cleaning; deep/periodic cleans; discharge, terminal and clinical cleaning; spillage cleaning; specialist cleaning and waste handling.

The Authority is looking for Catering (Hostess) Services for all inpatient wards across NCHC and NSFT sites. These services are based on the reheating of pre-prepared cook-chill and cook-freeze meals.

The Authority is looking to put a framework in place for portering services across a number of NCHC and NSFT sites. Further information can be found in the specification documents.