Strategic Estates Partnership

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust are interested in seeking a private sector partner (the Partner) to provide an intelligent estates strategy function that will support the Trusts' clinical strategies to enable service change, improve quality of care for patients and drive efficiency in the Trusts' operations including potentially through (but not limited to): master planning, estates rationalisation; capital programme planning; raising finance and investment; strategic service transformation planning; and also the procurement and project/contract management of a range of services in relation to New Projects. This procurement is being conducted jointly by the Trusts.

It is expected that these services will be provided to the Trusts through the establishment of joint venture bodies (the JV) and arrangements between the Trusts and the Partner. The arrangements envisage the establishment of two separate joint venture bodies (one in respect of each Trust) with the ability to collaborate where there are

shared interests or requirement. The Trusts also reserve the right to merge the joint venture bodies into one entity during the partnership period.