MSA Security has won a $2.6 million contract to upgrade security services at Swan District Hospital.
The security upgrade was called for partially in response to the assault on psychiatric nurse Debbie Freeman at the facility last year.
The performance-based contract is for an initial three-year term with two one-year options.
There had been security services in place prior to the contract being awarded but it is understood there had been pressure from the hospital to bolster that service.
MSA state operations manager Graham Drury said this was the largest hospital contract his firm had landed to date.
MSA has provided security services to Swan District Hospital since May on a week-by-week contract basis.
“We helped the Government to review the security arrangements at Swan District Hospital,” Mr Drury said.
The security services contract was put out to tender in December and MSA was successful.
Mr Drury said MSA had been providing security services to some of the smaller hospitals around Perth and hoped this contract could be a springboard to similar but larger jobs
“We also provide security to three of the larger nursing homes around Perth,” he told WA Business News.
“We’ve had some quite positive enquiries from other areas.”
Ms Freeman was bashed unconscious by a patient at Swan District Hospital in March 2004.
She was awarded a $107,000 ex-gratia payment by the WA Government in October.
