Health facilities management acquisition

RNS Number : 4247U

Serco Group PLC

24 October 2017

 

Health facilities management acquisition

24 October 2017

Serco Group plc

LEI: 549300PT2CIHYN5GWJ21

Serco Group plc ('Serco' or 'the Group'), the international service company, has signed Heads of Terms to acquire a portfolio of selected UK Health Facilities Management contracts from Carillion plc.  Once a definitive Business Purchase Agreement has been agreed, and Carillion has received the requisite third party consents and shareholders' approval if required, the contracts will be acquired on a cash-free, debt-free basis, with the consideration to be satisfied using Serco's existing debt facilities.  Assuming that all the contracts are transferred to Serco, the total consideration payable would be £50.1m (subject to a limited working capital adjustment), with payment largely phased as the contracts transfer.  Full transition and integration of operations is expected to be achieved by the end of 2018.  The contracts provide Facilities Management support services to over 50 NHS sites across the UK, including five acute hospital trusts.  The portfolio of contracts is profitable and has current annual revenue of approximately £90m and a weighted average remaining term of 14 years.  Further particulars will be published once the definitive Business Purchase Agreement is signed.

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For further information please contact Serco:

Stuart Ford, Head of Investor Relations T [phone]

Marcus De Ville, Head of Media Relations T [phone]

About Serco

Serco is a leading provider of public services. Our customers are governments or others operating in the public sector.  We gain scale, expertise and diversification by operating internationally across five sectors and four geographies: Defence, Justice & Immigration, Transport, Health and Citizen Services, delivered in UK & Europe, North America, Asia Pacific and the Middle East.

More information can be found at www.serco.com

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