There was a discussion of that at the bidding time, but it was a decision that Interior Health made. They wished to keep the housekeeping, catering, and all of the other support services with their existing staff. Arguably, that is a set of services that is closer to the front line core service of health care, whereas building maintenance arguably is very remote from the front line services of health care.
On October 25th, 2012. See this statement in context.