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Westgrove Group bags £1m in new business deals

The Westgrove Group has secured over £1 million with contract awards in Yorkshire, Cheshire, Suffolk and Greater Manchester. The facilities management provider has recently won contracts with The Piazza Centre in Huddersfield, The Arc in Bury St Edmunds, Novelis Recycling ...

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14forty reports exceptional business growth

The integrated facilities management provider has announced an outstanding start to the year after winning a multitude of new clients and retaining 95 per cent of its existing client portfolio in the first half of 2021. Part of Compass Group ...

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FM industry has recovered from lockdown and ready for the new workplace, says BCIS forecast

The FM industry has largely recovered from the economic downturn brought about by the lockdowns and is coming to terms with the new working environment, according to the latest forecast by the Building Cost Information Service (BCIS) from RICS. However ...

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The YES factor

Want strong contract deals and supplier relationships? Here’s why collaboration is key. By Julian Fris, Director of FM consultancy Neller Davies, and Kate Vitasek, an American author, educator and lead researcher at the University of Tennessee Once upon a time, ...

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Mark of approval

Retendering is often the first port-of-call for facilities managers who want to understand whether they are getting value for money from their service providers. John Brownless, Partner at LitmusFM looks at the alternative option of benchmarking In a post-pandemic environment, ...

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FM trends: A wrap up of 2019 and a peak into 2020

Just some of the predicted trends in FM for 2019 were; evolution in the way contracts were outsourced and managed, a greater emphasis on health and wellbeing, the impact of the coworking revolution, coping with the challenges caused by Brexit ...

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Insourcing vs outsourcing debate: What’s best for business?

The insourcing of FM services is growing in popularity. The report ‘Rebuilding Capacity: The case for insourcing public contracts’ from the University of Liverpool, recommends it for providing service flexibility and the ability to allocate resources where they are needed. ...

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Signed, sealed, delivered

Entering into contractual arrangements for the supply of services is an everyday occurrence for facilities managers and FM service providers – even when they don’t realise it. Too often people mistakenly believe that there is no binding contract in place ...

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Backup plan

We’re going through some uncertain times, what with Brexit and the collapse of leading players in the FM sector. Here, Julian Fris, Director at Neller Davies explores the role of emergency procurement in helping to weather the storm There seems ...

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The benefits and challenges of the TFM model

According to AMA’s ‘Facilities Management Outsourcing Market Report – UK 2016-2020’ the TFM sector was forecast to reach over £21 billion by 2020. This has resulted in greater demand for ‘bundled service’ and TFM contracts. However, it has been argued ...

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