FOI240208: Car parking

Released 19 June 2024

Request:

Please could you provide the information below about car park management in your NHS trust:

1. The name, job title, and contact details for the person responsible for car park management.
2. The name, job title, and contact details for the person responsible for procuring the external providers (if any) which manage your car parks.
3. On which of your sites do you have car parks?  Please list.
4. Please confirm for each of the above car parks how many spaces are included.
5. Which of these car parks are managed by you and which are managed by external providers?  Please list for each.
6. Of those managed by external providers – please state the company names of these providers, the value(s) of the current contract(s), the start and end dates of the current contracts, if there are any extensions in place or planned to these contracts and the length of these extensions.
7. What procurement route(s) did you use to tender for these external providers of car park management?  Please state for each current external provider (e.g. via a named framework agreement, competitive competition, direct award, etc.)
8. What methods are currently being used to manage your car parks (e.g. ANPR, barriers, attendants, etc.)?  Please state for each car park.
9. Do you have any plans to change how you manage your car parks (e.g. from barriers to ANPR)?
10. What is the planned date(s) for renewal for your contract(s) for external provider(s) of car park management?
11. How do you plan to procure your next external provider(s) of car park management (existing framework, new framework, competitive competition, direct award, extension of existing contract, etc.)?  What is the timescale for this?
12. Would you consider a direct award to a preferred supplier?  

Information disclosed:

1 and 2. As is the case for most NHS organisations, we are not of the view that it is appropriate to routinely release the names and contact details of our staff into the public domain through the FOIA. This is to safeguard our staff from companies that may misuse this information. 

The names/contact details you are seeking are therefore exempt under section 40(2) [personal information] exemption of the Act. 

It is important to note that the Trust and its commissioning partners are required to follow very specific rules when procuring equipment or services. It will be therefore of little benefit to contact our staff directly about such opportunities. Information about procurement and tendering can be found on our website. To contact the Procurement Service, please email.

3. St.Richard’s Hospital, Chichester (SRH), Worthing Hospital, Worthing (WH), Southlands Hospital, Shoreham-by-Sea (SH), Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton (RSCH), Princess Royal Hospital, Haywards Heath (PRH).
   
   In addition, the Trust rents land for car parking at Brighton Racecourse and at Whitehawk Football Club’s ground in Brighton.

4. SRH: 885 spaces for staff, 475 public spaces.
   WH: 496 spaces for staff, 239 public spaces.
   SH: 97 spaces for staff, 63 public spaces.
   RSCH: 328 in total, inclusive of 221 public parking spaces, 27 bays for disabled people, 57 spaces for staff, 23 spaces for on-call staff, 22 bays for electric vehicles and 27 bays for motorcycles.
   PRH: 699 in total, inclusive of 255 public spaces, 46 bays for disabled people, 382 spaces for staff, 26 bays for electric vehicles and 18 bays for motorcycles.
   Louisa Martindale Building (LMB): 100 spaces in total, including 13 bays for disabled people.
   Brighton Racecourse: 330 spaces for staff-only parking.
   Whitehawk Football Club: 200 spaces for staff-only parking.

5. Car parking is managed in-house.

6. Not applicable

7. Not applicable

8. At SRH: Barriers, Pay and Display and attendants
   At WH: Barriers, Pay and Display and attendants
   At SH: Pay and Display
   RSCH: Barrier controlled for public parking, gate controlled for staff parking
   PRH: Pay and Display for public parking, barrier controlled for staff parking
   LMB: ANPR
   Brighton Racecourse and Whitehawk football club: not managed

9. The Trust is currently investigating the use of ANPR on its RSCH and PRH sites.

10. Not applicable

11. Not applicable

12. Not applicable