Great Western Ambulance NHS Trust (GWAS) has appointed the Bristol office of property advisors GVA to help it modernise its property estate.
Chippenham-based GWAS’s 30 sites are spread across Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and the West of England and range from state-of-the-art facilities to buildings nearing the end of their economic life.
The trust wants to develop a modern, flexible estate more aligned to its clinical strategy for accident and emergency and patient transport services. GVA is supporting it on three key projects over a three-year period.
GVA director Gordon Isgrove said: “Our multi-discipline approach will look at all aspects of the trust’s existing property portfolio to help us advise the trust on establishing an estate more suited to its current and future needs.”
GVA will be providing specialist advice in lease negotiation, agency acquisition and disposal, planning, valuation, dilapidations and condition surveys.
GVA was recently ranked the number one supplier of services to the public sector nationally with a 44% market share, according to figures for 2010/11 from the Government Procurement Service.
