Outsourcer Mitie nets ten-year £500m deal

Mitie, whose maintenance contracts in Scotland include the Scottish Parliament, has clinched a deal worth half a billion pounds that it sees as a “game-changer” for its care and custody division.

The outsourcing firm said that under the ten-year, £525 million Home Office contract, it will start supplying immigration services in May 2018.

Colin Dobell, managing director of the care and custody arm, said: “This is a game- changing new contract for Mitie Care and Custody and reflects our proven expertise in delivering these services.”

Mitie’s duties under its new remit will include responsibility for escorting immigrants who have been detained both at home and overseas onto “removal flights” destined for their home countries. It will also manage various facilities throughout the UK

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