CHTMAG.COM INDUSTRY INSIGHT APRIL CLEANING IN BRIEF Churchill has secured a three-year contract to provide cleaning and support services on behalf of Croydon Council. The deal which is effective from 4 July 2016, will see Churchill responsible for the delivery of cleaning, washroom, window cleaning and confidential and medical waste services to a portfolio of approximately 70 properties, including council offices, housing sites and community centres. GOJO Industries-Europe has been awarded the ACM Greener Path Land Diversion Award and is leading the way in environmental performance by achieving ‘Zero Waste to Landfill’ during 2015. Last year, GOJO launched their GOJO 2020 Sustainable Value Strategies and Goals and this award recognises their exceptional performance in waste and recycling operations and sets the bar high within industry. The passenger transport executive Merseytravel has renewed its contract with B&M Waste Services for a further three years. Having worked together since 2011 to introduce recycling initiatives B&M Waste have once again been chosen as the preferred supplier of a waste management solution. Merseytravel provides professional, strategic and operational transport advice to the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority and is the delivery arm making transport happen. Staff at a family firm, which provides specialist cleaning services, are celebrating after winning a top business award. Stirling-based Perfect Service Solutions has been named Best Small Business 2016 in the third annual Forth Valley Chamber of the Commerce Awards. Co-founders Simone Hart Sibbald and Eddie Tierney received the honour during a ceremony at the Hilton Hotel in Dunblane, Perthshire. The UK’s oldest private bank, C. Hoare & Co., has appointed Battersea-based Julius Rutherfoord to provide contract cleaning services across its sites in London. C. Hoare & Co. were looking for a specialist high quality contract cleaner to provide the highest cleaning standards, high levels of consistency, whilst maintaining the utmost discretion and implementing the strictest security measures. The client also requested that the contract adopted the London Living Wage, delivered through a thorough staff training, innovation and development programme. Following a competitive tender process Julius Rutherfoord was chosen as a match for these ambitions and demonstrated it had the dedicated local London resources and experience to deliver a long term partnership. The Worshipful Company of Environmental Cleaners (WCEC) has announced the death of Past Master Emeritus Inez Dorothy Butler on 28 March 2016, aged 86. Inez passed away peacefully in hospital following a chest infection. APRIL 2016 5 CLEANING HYGIENE TODAY NHS PROPERTY SERVICES ANNOUNCES SOFT FM CONTRACT WINNERS NHS Property Services which looks after 4,000 NHS buildings has completed the second phase of its national procurement exercise to streamline its facilities management contracts and has announced the successful bidders chosen to deliver a number of its soft FM contracts throughout England. According to NHS Property Services the rationalisation process of its FM services which has taken nine months to complete, will save in the region of 20 per cent across the national estate on the £200 million contracts which are currently outsourced, as well as ensure levels of consistency in the quality of FM services being delivered across the country. The winning bidders of the soft FM contracts are as follows: • Cleaning Services – Ideal Cleaning Services and OCS • Feminine Hygiene – PHS Group PLC • Grounds and gardens – Burleys and Mitie • Pest control – Mitie Pest Management Services and Vermtech Pest Control Support services provider Kingdom has acquired Worcester-based cleaning firm FML Group Holdings which includes subsidiary companies Freeflow Management, West End Commercial Contracts, City Contract Services and FML. The new deal which is valued in excess of £3.5 million, has been more than doubled in its scope, to include an additional six locations, bringing the total to nine across North West and West London. The terms of the contract will see Cordant Cleaning responsible for the cleaning, shunting and parking of over 750 buses every day, in addition to cleaning the nine bus garages, administration buildings and engineering premises. Additional responsibilities include re-fuelling, checking oil and fluid levels, and allocating each bus to its route number. A team of over 150 full time staff work on the contract, all of which are directly employed by Cordant Cleaning providing a 24/7 service, with the majority working a 7pm-3am shift. In many cases the buses operate 20 hours a day so each receives a daily standard clean alongside a schedule of periodic deep cleans. Chris Healey, vehicle presentation manager at Metroline, said: “Every day we strive to meet our passengers’ expectations and a key part of this is through the provision of a clean and presentable vehicle. This means that our choice of cleaning partner is extremely important and we have enjoyed a long and successful working relationship with Cordant Cleaning.” Guy Pakenham, MD at Cordant Cleaning, added: “We now look after more than half of London‘s buses and have the knowledge and expertise to meet the challenges of these complex operations. Our ability to self deliver our solutions combined with our proven processes mean that we offer a truly compelling service for the transport industry.” Cordant Cleaning began working with Metroline in 2007. KINGDOM BUYS FML GROUP HOLDINGS • Security – Mitie Security Services • Window cleaning – Walkers CS and Cinderella Support Services A third and final phase of awards for ‘Specialist Services’ contracts are due to be awarded in April and will include catering, car parking, waste, asbestos surveys, hot and cold water surveys and medical gasses. The rationalisation process of FM services across the entire NHS estate was conducted in three parallel running programmes, resulting in the consolidation of more than 2,300 individual hard, soft and specialist FM contracts.
Cleaning Hygiene Today April 2016
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