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Dear Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust,
To whom it may concern,
I am doing a research project on FM delivery in the healthcare sector. Please would you provide the following information?
1. Who is responsible for the provision and management of estates for the trust?

2. What current model of facilities management delivery does the trust use:
a. Outsourcing of single services (maintenance, cleaning, security and associated services)
b. Total Facilities Management model
c. Self-delivery with contractor support
d. Maintained as part of a PFI

3. What are your future plans for outsourcing of the Facilities Management services?

4. What is the current facilities management budget for 2018/2019?

5. Would the trust provide their current estates strategy?

6. Please supply the companies and current lengths of your existing supplier contracts for maintenance, cleaning, security and associated services.

7. Has the trust entered into an Energy Performance Contract?

Yours faithfully,

Makesh Rattu

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Dear Makesh Rattu,

 

Thank you for your recent request for information under the Freedom of
Information (FOI) Act 2000.

 

We are now in a position to respond to your request.

 

Your request:

 

1.         Who is responsible for the provision and management of estates
for the trust?

 

2.         What current model of facilities management delivery does the
trust use:

a.         Outsourcing of single services (maintenance, cleaning, security
and associated services)

b.         Total Facilities Management model

c.         Self-delivery with contractor support

d.         Maintained as part of a PFI

 

3.         What are your future plans for outsourcing of the Facilities
Management services?

 

4.         What is the current facilities management budget for 2018/2019?

 

5.         Would the trust provide their current estates strategy?

 

6.         Please supply the companies and current lengths of your
existing supplier contracts for maintenance, cleaning, security and
associated services.

 

7.         Has the trust entered into an Energy Performance Contract?

 

Our response:

 

Under Section 1(1)(a) of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the Trust
can confirm that it holds information relevant to your request and this
has been provided where possible below.

 

1.  This is an in-house service delivered by the Trust.

 

2.  a. Outsourcing of single services and b. Maintained as part of a PFI

 

3.  There are currently no plans in place for outsourcing.

 

4.  £44,527k

 

5.  The Trust is in the process of revising its Estates Strategy.  The
publication of this information is expected within the next 6 months. 
Since the information requested is intended for future publication,
section 22 exemption under the Act is engaged.

 

Section 22 exemption is a qualified exemption and is therefore subject to
a public interest test.  We recognise the general public interest in
openness, transparency and making information freely available. 
Additionally, we recognise the public interest in the specific information
you are seeking.  This public interest however, will be met by the
publication of this information in the coming months.  Disclosure by the
Trust now would involve publishing information that is incomplete and has
not yet been ratified by the relevant senior committees within the Trust. 
Our conclusion is that it is reasonable in these circumstances to withhold
the information requested at this time, and that the balance of public
interest lies in keeping to the proposed timetable for publication. 

 

6.  Not applicable; these services are in-house.

 

7.  No, not at this time.

 

 

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