Villicare, the joint venture partnership between estates specialist, Ryhurst, and Cheshire & Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (CWP), has ‘made significant savings by implementing and managing a commercially driven procurement process’ for the construction of its first capital project for CWP at the Countess of Chester Health Park.
Through managing the procurement of the £14 million CAMHS facility, Villicare says it has provided CWP ‘with significant cost and resource benefits that may not have been realised through P21+’, one of the original procurement options considered.
Following a competitive tender, Villicare appointed Eric Wright Construction to build the new Tier 4 CAMHS facility, which will include 26 en suite bedrooms; a dedicated education facility; a gym; day spaces, and ‘substantial outdoor recreational facilities’.
Vilicare said: “The robust management of the project development and procurement process has provided the Trust with the confidence to also include a four-bed psychiatric intensive care unit as an addition to the project scope. The introduction of this additional facility is also being commercially driven to achieve the best possible value for money with the appointed contractor.”
Chris Tonge, Villicare general manager, said: “The team has shown real enthusiasm to design a facility that will provide a therapeutic, healing, and nurturing environment, affordable for the Trust to both build and operate.”
Villicare has been established ‘to assist the Trust in achieving optimum benefits from capital investments, and to challenge conventional design and construction practices’.