Building & Property Group has signed a contract with the University College London Hospitals NHS Trust as part of the winning consortium selected to design, finance, build and operate the new £225 million single site UCLH hospital in central London. Annual value of the facilities management contract, which has been developed under the Government’s private finance initiative, will be £10 million.

The new UCLH hospital will occupy a three acre site stretching along the Euston Road from its corner with Tottenham Court Road to Gower Street, including the current University College London Hospital Accident and Emergency building. Other members of the Health Management (UCLH) consortium include AMEC plc and Balfour Beatty.

Building & Property Group will manage and implement a range of non-clinical services across the old hospital buildings, until the new site is built. Once construction is complete it will manage all of these services at the new single 669 bed facility for 40 years.

Services to be provided by Building & Property include estates management, building maintenance, M&E maintenance, property management, catering, portering, cleaning, security, pest control, waste management and procurement. Building & Property will also be running a help-desk.

Clive Groom, Chief Executive of Building & Property Group, said: "Given our track record at the Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle, Building & Property is ideally placed to contribute to the success of the new UCLH hospital and the efficient management of interim services.

"Our first step will be to assume responsibility for services such as security which have already been contracted out by the Trust. In five to six months' time we will take on other services in a phased manner, transferring staff into our organisation by TUPE transfer. Approximately 420 people will transfer in all."

Building & Property’s role as interim manager includes looking at ways of improving current methods of service delivery. It will review procurement policies and gradually winding down the estate in preparation for the transfer into the new single site hospital.