News on 29 March 2001
Skanska Innisfree and The Hospital Company have been shortlisted
for the £230m PFI to build Walsgrave Hospital’s new facilities
in Coventry. The two NHS Trusts, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire
(UHCW) and Coventry Healthcare, selected the two consortia, leaving
Bovis Lend Lease led Catalyst the unsuccessful bidder.
Announcing the list, UHCW chief executive David Loughton, said "We
have carried out a very detailed evaluation as fairly, professionally
and objectively as we possibly could, and it was in the end a unanimous
decision of the Project Board to go to the next stage with The Hospital
Company and Skanska Innisfree.
A preferred bidder will be selected in October this year and the new
facilities should be completed by 2006.
Project director Peter Marsh commented: "As we approach the end
of the next stage in the autumn, we will re-assess the position and
agree with bidders a realistic and deliverable target date for contract
signature; however, at the moment, the approved plan date for signature
remains mid July 2002."
