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Scottish Office

Answer

Ms Squire: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the health services which have been market-tested or notified to his Department and won by the private sector indicating (a) the location and (b) the organisation winning the tender. [28623] Mr. Galbraith: [holding answer 9 February 1998]: The Department has been notified of the following contract awards within the NHS in Scotland to private sector companies. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Health board area Service type Contractor No. of contracts Argyll and Clyde Hotel services Mediguard 1 Painting John Miller & Son 4 Bell Decorating Group 1 Capital Decorator 2 Trident Main Services 1 Grounds maintenance Russell Landscape 1 Information technology CSC (Scotland) Healthcare 1 Ayrshire and Arran Hotel services Mediguard 1 Painting Baxter & Gillespie 4 Moss Painting 2 Trident 1 Financial Bank of Scotland 1 Transport Cochrane Leasing 1 Turner Hire Drive 1 Vehicle maintenance Maconochies of Kilmarnock 1 Supplies Meadowhead Stores 1 Occupational health SALUS 1 Internal audit BDO Stoy Haward 1 Borders Banking Bank of Scotland 1 Dumfries and Galloway Estates maintenance Crossan Electrical 1 Fife Catering Sodexho 2 Ground maintenance WCL Contracts 1 General ancillary Initial Healthcare 1 Mediguard 1 Ancillary and catering Marriot Healthcare 1 Forth Valley Clinical waste Clinical Waste Ltd (White Rose 1 Environmental) Computer services CSC (Scotland) Healthcare 1 Grampian Domestic Mediguard 4 Initial Hospital Services 1 Car parking Securicor 1 Internal audit Coopers & Lybrand 2 Occupational health RGIT Health Ltd 1 Care management CHS 1 Desk top support & help desk MDIS Ltd 1 Data communications CSC (Scotland) Healthcare 1 Greater Glasgow Domestic Pall Mall (Granada) 1 Hospital Hygiene 2 Sunlight 1 Initial Healthcare 5 Olscot Ltd 3 Catering Sodexho 1 Portering Sunlight 4 Mediguard 1 Hospital Hygiene (Bateman) 2 Olscot Ltd 1 Painting HAT Painting Ltd 4 McLean & Spiers Ltd 3 Fitzroy Building 1 Grounds maintenance P & D Services 1 CBC Lands Division 4 OCS Cleanmaster Ltd 1 Financial Bank of Scotland 1 Gardening contract Caledonian Landscape Ltd 1 Hotel services Sodexho 1 Initial 1 Steam generation FIHS Emstar (PFI) 1 Facilities Management Gardner Merchant 2 Highland Computer services CSC (Scotland) Healthcare 1 Business Systems Department CSC (Scotland) Healthcare 1 Central Data Processing CSC (Scotland) Healthcare 1 Laundry John O'Groat Co Ltd 2 Internal Audit Coopers & Lybrand 5 Lanarkshire Portering Sunlight 1 Pall Mall Services 1 Hospital Hygiene 1 Multi-services Sunlight 1 Initial Healthcare 2 Catering Mediguard 1 Estates maintenance Serco Services Ltd 1 Painting HPC Coating 2 Bell Decorating 1 Hotel services Pall Mall Healthcare 1 Lothian Multi-service Sodexho 1 Domestic Initial Healthcare 2 Cleaning (kitchen) Prof Hygiene 1 Catering Sodexho 1 Mediguard 1 Hotel services Initial Healthcare 1 Lift maintenance Pickerings Ltd 1 Lothian (cont.) Painting HAT Painting Ltd 1 Town and Country 1 Estates maintenance Drake & Skull 1 Engineering Drake & Skull 1 Computer services CSC (Scotland) Healthcare 2 Internal audit Deloitte & Touche 1 Price Waterhouse 1 Banking services Royal Bank of Scotland 1 Telephone Network Mercury 1 Removal of clinical/radioactive Clinical Waste Ltd (White Rose 2 waste Environmental) Pest control Pest Protection 1 Lift maintenance Pickerings Ltd 1 Portable electrical appliance BEAT Ltd 1 testing Telecommunications Mercury 1 Shetland Hotel services Gardner Merchant 1 Internal audit Coopers & Lybrand 1 Tayside General ancillary Taylorplan 1 Car parking Securicor Guard Service 1 Laundry Gordons 1 Wheelchair technical support Archibald Young 1 Disposal of clinical waste Eurocare Ltd 1 Banking Royal Bank of Scotland 2 Catering Mediguard 2 Domestic/portering Mediguard 1 Western Isles Internal audit Coopers & Lybrand 1 Orkney Internal audit Coopers & Lybrand 1 Chiropody George Randall 1 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

28623; 307 c578-82W;307 c578-81W

Session

1997-98

Subjects

Contracts for services Health services Private sector NHS Scotland

Contains statistics

Yes