MITIE, the strategic outsourcing company, has retained a major healthcare cleaning contract in England for a further five years. 

The contract, with Hull & East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, consists of two large acute hospitals and five smaller sites, with approximately 570 MITIE employees involved in a variety of hospital cleaning duties. 

The new multi-million pound agreement will continue until 2016 with a possible two year extension after that. 

David Booth, director of MITIE‟s healthcare team said: “We are delighted to have retained this prestigious contract. Cleaning hospitals is a critical task and you have to get it right all the time - there can be no „bad days in the office‟. 

“We have worked very hard to deliver a consistently high standard of service on the contract and have established a great working relationship with the client that has benefited our on-site operations. 

“I am particularly proud that the training and benefits we offer have helped us to achieve a very high employee retention rate on the contract and a great team spirit which really makes all the difference.” 

Pauline Lewin, the Director of Infrastructure and Development at the Trust said: "We are delighted that MITIE has been successful in its bid for a new contract with our Trust and look forward to continued partnership. We will work together to ensure that our hospitals are cleaned to the highest standards." 

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Notes for editors

What is MITIE?
We’re the strategic outsourcing company. What does that mean in practice? We manage facilities, properties and assets for our clients across the UK and beyond.

We work with our clients in three ways; some take full advantage of our whole range of expertise, others may only need one aspect of what we do:

Strategy and consultancy
+ Facilities and project management
+ Service delivery

Our strategic input can add value at the highest level by helping clients to manage their assets, while our practical management expertise can save customers money and reduce their carbon emissions. We work with a vast number of clients in every industry across both the public and private sectors and deliver the broadest range of services that can be found in one place: from integrated facilities management to engineering maintenance to lifecycle energy management and much more.

There’s a lot more to MITIE than you probably think. We’re a big company with big ambitions – a leading FTSE 250 support services business, with more than 56,000 people, revenues in excess of £1.7bn, and a reputation for being the best.

Visit us at www.mitie.com