Hull Teaching Primary Care (NHS Hull), East Riding of Yorkshire PCT (ERY PCT) and North Lincolnshire PCT, hereinafter called the Commissioners, have a requirement for a domestic cleaning service.

The domestic cleaning service will succeed the current provision of domestic services to the Commissioners’ sites. Across Hull there are over 20 properties, which are a mix of mature properties and modern LIFT sites, all housing GP and other Primary Care and Community services, while in North Lincolnshire there are currently 9 sites, also housing a mixture of GP, Primary Care and Community services.

In summary the service currently comprises:

— Scheduled cleaning,

— Periodic and ad hoc cleaning,

— Laundering,

— The ordering and distribution of cleaning consumables,

— A designated contract manager.

A service provider(s) will be appointed for a new contract period beginning 1.2.2013.

Following the publication of the Government’s NHS White Paper in December 2010 "Equity and excellence: liberating the NHS’, Primary Care Trusts are to be abolished with effect from 31.3.2013. The contract into which the successful bidder will enter will therefore be assigned to a successor body during the term of this agreement. The identity of the successor body is not known at present.