A group of 30 major UK businesses have spent a landmark £250 million procuring services and products from social enterprises and helped create 2,700 jobs in an ongoing programme from Social Enterprise UK, new figures reveal. The Buy Social Corporate ...

CBRE’s Global Workplace Solutions business has entered into an exclusive agreement with Social Enterprise Republic of Ireland (SERI) to drive social enterprise participation in the corporate sector across Ireland. As of 1 September 2022, CBRE and SERI are now participating ...

Workplace change and relocation specialist, Business Moves Group (BMG), has been named a supplier to NHS Shared Business Services’ (NHS SBS) Hard Facilities Management 2 framework agreement. The Hard FM framework is free to access for all UK public sector ...

Global facilities management company, City FM, has been named as a supplier on Crown Commercial Service’s Facilities Management and Workplace Services Framework, RM6232, for the supply of hard FM services. City is undertaking two lots offered by the framework: Hard ...

Forty-four suppliers have been awarded a place on the new £35 billion Crown Commercial Service (CCS) Facilities Management and Workplace Services framework. The new framework supports the principles of the Government’s Sourcing Playbook by heavily weighting ‘quality’ in its contract ...

Bellrock Property & Facilities Management has been awarded a place as a supplier on Crown Commercial Service’s Facilities Management and Workplace Services Framework, RM6232, Total Facilities Management Lots 1a / 1b and Hard Facilities Management, Lots 2a / 2b. Crown ...

Pareto Facilities Management has secured a place on the Crown Commercial Service Facilities Management & Workplace Services framework (RM6232). The company has been awarded a place in Lot 1(a), Lot 1(b), Lot 3(a) and Lot 3(b), which will entitle Pareto ...

Following a competitive tender process, procurement organisation and social enterprise, Fusion21, has announced the suppliers successfully appointed to its national Grounds Maintenance Framework worth up to £85 million, over a four-year period. Thirteen specialist firms – of which 46 per ...

The hydration trade body, The Water Dispenser & Hydration Association (the WHA) is urging facilities and estates managers to ensure that, when procuring water dispensers, the shortlisted suppliers are members of the WHA. The WHA’s general manager, Phillipa Atkinson-Clow, said: ...

Finance & accounting, digital, procurement and workforce services provider, NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS), has launched its second-generation Hard Facilities Management framework agreement. The second iteration of the organisation’s highly successful framework is designed to respond to the need within the ...