Grounds and Garden Maintenance

Oxleas provide a wide range of health and social care services in south east London, specialising in community health, mental health and learning disability services. We deliver care to people of all ages and work closely with a variety of partners to ensure that our services are well-integrated and holistic. With a workforce of around 3,500 people, including many highly skilled health and social care professionals operate from over 85 sites in a variety of locations across the London Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich and into Kent. Our services include a range of physical health services to adults and children in the community in the boroughs of Bexley and Greenwich. These extend from health visitors working with the very young to district nurses and therapists meeting the physical health needs of older people. We have been the main provider of specialist mental health care in Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich for more than ten years and have developed a comprehensive portfolio of services in community and hospital settings. We also provide specialist forensic mental health care across south east London and in Kent Prisons, and adult learning disability services in Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich. Excellent internal and external facilities services are integral to the delivery of high quality, safe and effective services and support the delivery of the best clinical care to patients. This procurement exercise seeks one provider to deliver ground and garden (including winter gritting) services to all Trust sites. The key objectives of this procurement is to deliver grounds and garden services which is cost effective, provides consistent quality and standardises service delivery methods; whilst meeting health and safety requirements and current NHS guidance and legislation. Given the ever changing landscape of the NHS and the need to provide an efficient estate response to changing service need, bidders should anticipate changes to both the sites and services during the life of the contract. Redundancy may only be considered once all other options to avoid these have been explored and exhausted. The Trust currently has contracts for Grounds and Garden services at Queen Mary's Hospital and other Trust sites therefore TUPE may apply. Please note this contract is a 3 year contract with the option to extend for a further 2 years to bring this in line with other Trust contracts.