2019-01-16

ISS secures new contract with Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust has awarded ISS a five-year contract, worth approximately GBP 40m, to provide a wide range of soft facility services, including: cleaning, catering, housekeeping, security and associated services.
This is the first time that the Trust has been able to take the opportunity of testing the services across their whole estate. ISS will be welcoming more than 250 new staff members into their Healthcare Team. 

Alistair Campbell, Contracts Manager, at Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, said: 

We are excited about merging all these services into one single contract. There are many benefits, including the creation of one integrated team across our sites, providing great services in a consistent and coordinated way. This provides a great opportunity for innovation and I hope we will see immediate benefits.

Chris Ash, Managing Director of ISS Healthcare, said: 

We have wanted to provide services to Oxleas for a very long time and so I am delighted that, at last, we now have a unique opportunity of bringing all the services under one umbrella. We have put forward a number of initiatives that will see Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust become a great example to others in the way that they deliver their soft FM services across a range of clinical disciplines.

The contract will commence 1 April 2019.

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About Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is in South East London. Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust provides a wide range of health and social care services, specialising in community health, mental health and learning disability services. Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust has a workforce of around 3,500 people including many highly skilled health and social care professionals. 

About ISS
The ISS Group was founded in Copenhagen in 1901 and has grown to become one of the world’s leading facility services companies. ISS offers a wide range of services such as: Cleaning, Catering, Security, Property and Support Services as well as Facility Management. Global revenue amounted to DKK 79.9 billion in 2017 and ISS has more than 480,000 employees and activities in more than 70 countries across Europe, Asia, North America, Latin America and Pacific, serving thousands of both public and private sector customers.