They are: Miller Ventures, made up of Miller Ventures & Construction, Mitie Group and Bank of Scotland; WS Atkins — a consortium comprising WS Atkins and Williams Pears Group; Jones Lang LaSalle together with Quintain Estates and Development; and Mace with CDC IXIS Finance, Stanhope and SCIC.
The winner will partner NHS Estates' new organisation, Inventures in the sell-off of NHS property.
The four were chosen from a final list of 14 bidders after 135 companies expressed interest in the PPP.
Peter Wearmouth of NHS Estates said: 'Many of the bidders made strong submissions, but the final four presented excellent proposals. They have impressive credentials and have put together teams of complementary consortium partners to meet the objectives set out by NHS Estates.'
In addition to working with Inventures, the winning consortium will provide a range of facilities management services that Inventures chief executive Kate Priestley believes will be 'at the heart of the service delivery model' provided by the PPP.
The final contract would be flexible and its structure dependent on the eventual partner. However, Priestley hopes that in combination the two groups will provide hard facilities management, such as M&E, to sterilisation plants and pathology laboratories.
More than 200 properties are already up for sale. Any that fail to sell will be added to the Inventures portfolio. Money from the private sector will be used to fund the design, build and operation of the NHS buildings.
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The Facilities Business