SEP JV — Strategic Estates Partnership Joint Venture.

Descriptions

Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (‘the Trust’) is seeking a partner (the Strategic Estates Partner (‘the SEP’)) to provide an intelligent estates strategy function to assist the Trust with estates rationalisation; capital programme planning, financing, procurement and construction project management; and also strategic transformation planning; procurement and contract management of FM and back office services.These services will be provided to the Trust through the establishment of a joint venture body (“JV”) between the Trust and the SEP to deliver the schemes.Services which the SEP is expected to deliver include:— Consultancy services, resource and support to deliver estates strategy solutions;— Developing a programme for and delivering the capital schemes required by the Trust in order to implement the Trust's site master plan;— Providing strategic consultancy services to maximise value from the Trust's estate;— Managing disposals (where appropriate) and income generation in surplus estate, redeveloping parts of the estate for commercial use;— Managing the delivery of and accepting risk transfer in relation to new capital schemes where appropriate;— Providing access to and delivering private sector capital where required;— Providing strategic consultancy services to develop proposals and solutions for FM and back office services which will generate efficiency savings whilst maintaining or improving the quality of services;— Procuring and managing supply chains for the delivery of capital projects and estate solutions.The SEP (through the JV) will be expected to plan, finance, procure and manage the delivery of schemes for new capital developments and refurbishment projects for the Trust's estate needs as they arise over the duration of the partnership including (but not limited to):— An opportunity to develop a health and social care campus on the Yeovil hospital site, which includes the potential for developing the site into a health and social care campus to accommodate a range of health-related services and commercial activities;— Working with the Trust to review space utilisation in its main buildings to ensure optimum location and adjacencies of core clinical services as well as considering ways to maximise the patient and visitor experience including a new or expanded car park solution to accommodate anticipated increases in demand; and— Working with the Trust to develop a Masterplan framework which establishes the key parameters for the future development of the site. This will include consideration in designing the optimum location of core services, the location and scale of development elements, the infrastructure provision (notably in terms of transport and parking but also potentially utilities), and public realm enhancements.The FM and back office services currently engaged by the Trust.The SEP (through the JV) may also be expected to plan, procure and contract manage a range of FM and back office services for the Trust where required. These may include:— Facility Support Services (e.g. facilities management and help-desk, energy management (and incidental energy generation), catering, cleaning, laundry, portering, parking and traffic management, grounds maintenance and security)— [IT, Information and Records Support Services]— Corporate Back Office Services (e.g. HR, pay roll and audit services)— [Hard FM Services]The opportunity is to provide a strategic, development, investment, procurement, project management and contract management role in delivering new projects and transforming services but the scope does not include the performance of delivering the detailed design and construction aspects of the new projects or the performance of FM and back-office services themselves.To ensure value for money is achieved at the time when the projects are commenced and services required, (and in observing EU procurement principles on behalf of the Trust) it is expected that the supply chain will be competitively tendered by the JV via a secondary procurement for each new project or service required. The SEP (through the JV) will therefore provide an integrator role in procuring and coordinating these third-party providers to deliver schemes and services for the benefit of the Trust.The JV partnership with the successful SEP will be for a period of 15 years with an option (at the sole discretion of the Trust) to extend the contract for a further 5 years.The Trust is also interested in the JV seeking other commercial and income generation opportunities in the public and private sector market over the long-term.