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£200 m of capital for energy projects and backlog With Carbon and Energy Fund (CEF)
Frameworks having already procured over £250 m of projects ‘in the process of delivering gross savings of £50 m plus’, and 245,000 t/CO2
per annum,
The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (COCH) and the CEF have unveiled their latest Framework. They explained: “It has several innovative additions to meet the ever- changing needs of the NHS. There are two contracts available – a traditional operating lease contract, and a new service contract that will allow hospitals to access off-balance sheet capital under the changing accounting rules. In response to changing dynamics of the energy sector, the Framework can integrate the NHS Salisbury Foundation Trust Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS), which will provide the ability to procure and deal with a variety of new innovative technologies – such as capacity markets, battery storage, and car park solar, to name but a few.” The Framework will feature 14 contractors from the UK, the US, France, Germany, and Italy, which ‘will bring global innovation to the NHS with the guarantee of knowing that CEF’s procured projects operate at 92% availability, compared with the NHS average of 65%’. To find out how to access the Framework and finance, contact the team at
EOI@carbonandenergy.net.
Protecting staff in challenging and secure settings
The COBS personal security range of products is now available from Atus Systems, strengthening its range of both personal and staff security solutions. MD, Darren Swindlehurst, said: “Atus Systems is already synonymous with high- end personal and staff security systems. By adding diverse and multi-functional devices from COBS to our range, we aim to combine the best of both worlds and deliver the ultimate in staff security solutions to our customers. Whether they need a portable panic button, a DECT telephone, an all-in-one ‘smart’ cordless phone/messaging device, or all of these combined with location detection, then we have a system we can offer them.” Atus says COBS personal security products are ‘designed to protect and secure staff’, and will typically be used in
psychiatric hospitals, detention centres, and secure children’s homes.
Darren Swindlehurst added: “The COBS range of handsets can alert the user with specific messages based on their location, e.g. ‘Door Locked?’, and send an alarm if they fall (man-down), or if the guard tour deviates from its normal route. All of this is in addition to having a staff alarm button, an assistance button, and the facility to make phone calls for help at any time.”
NHS SBS Framework appoints architects to the multi-disciplinary framework lot,
AFL Architects has been appointed once more to the NHS Shared Business Services (SBS) Construction Consultancy framework as architects, lead consultants, and contract administrators.
With this appointment to all regional lots under the framework, the practice can supply to NHS and public sector clients nationwide. This provides a fully compliant route to market to access construction consultancy services. The practice has also been appointed
‘offering a one-stop-shop design team of specialist supporting consultants’. Through this offering, AFL says clients can access a complete turnkey solution – ‘with the benefits of cost-effectiveness, established relationships, and joined-up design’. Director, Sheldon Walsh, said: “We are delighted to have been once again appointed to the SBS framework, both as architects and design team leaders to a full multi-disciplinary team.”
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