Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (‘the Trust’) sought to appoint a provider to deliver Independent Tester Service in relation to the PFI scheme to build a new state-of-the-art hospital on a biomedical campus in Cambridge.
The new PFI hospital is a scheme in the region of a 165 000 000 GBP project funded from private finance and public sector funding and is expected to deliver a facility with over 300 beds with outpatient services and a wide range of diagnostic and treatment facilities.
The construction commenced in March 2015. The construction and commissioning phase is expected to be complete by early 2018.
The successful bidder for the Independent Tester Service entered into an agreement for services with the Trust and also the PFI provider.