6 July 2016 | Herpreet Kaur Grewal

Kier Group’s facilities management business has been awarded a substantial four-year contract with the London Borough of Southwark, worth £32 million.

The contracted services, previously delivered through a significant number of individual outsourced arrangements, was awarded to Kier as part of Southwark council’s drive to rationalise the delivery of its hard FM and compliance services across its non-housing estate. 

Kier will be working on a full range of planned and reactive maintenance and compliance services across the borough, as well as minor works, and will become the central point of contact through a dedicated helpdesk for the council’s properties managed by the corporate facilities management division. 

There is also significant scope for project work, including associated programme and project management work.  

Kier will provide a range of hard services over 94,000 square metres of building floor space – including mechanical and electrical maintenance, and fabric and reactive maintenance. This is in addition to providing compliance services to properties across the estate, including fire and water risk assessments, electrical installation and condition reports, display energy certificates, F-Gas regulations, and asbestos duty holder reinspections.

Steve Davies, managing director, facilities management, Kier, said: “This win underlines our experience in mechanical and electrical maintenance and project work, both of which will play a key part in our work with the council.”