6 Dec 2006

Interserve, the services, maintenance and building group, has won the contract to provide facilities management services in the southern half of the Metropolitan Police's estate. The contract will begin in April 2007 and will be worth more than £150 million over its seven-year duration, with the option of a three-year extension.

The contract is one of two awarded on a geographic basis by the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) valued in total at over £300 million for its entire estate. It forms a new Facilities Management Model for the MPA that is focused on fact-based management and real-time performance information. Interserve's operational area, the southern half of the Metropolitan Police Estate, will cover everything to the south of the Thames (except the Met's PFI South East London Police Stations) plus the boroughs of Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea, and includes New Scotland Yard. The buildings in this region have a floor area of 340,000 m2  - equivalent to more than 40 football pitches - and range from police stations, offices and call centres to flats, garages, stables and workshops. There are also training and sports facilities, warehouses, motorway posts and police boxes.

The Metropolitan Police has outsourced a range of facilities management services to Interserve since 1999 in a contract which ran initially for five years and was extended for a further three. In the new contract the range of services has increased, giving strong and early evidence of the successful integration of MacLellan into Interserve. Services will encompass:
• Building engineering services
• Building fabric maintenance
• Cleaning & laundry
• Waste services
• Pest control
• Security
• Grounds maintenance
• Reception
• Wardens
• Reprographics
• Portering and mail services

 "This contract underlines the strength of the working relationship between Interserve and the Metropolitan Police," said Adrian Ringrose, Chief Executive of Interserve Plc. "From our experience of supporting the Metropolitan Police over many years we understand that police work is a mixture of the routine and the extreme, and our role is to ensure that the vital public service provided by the police can continue no matter what the pressure. We are looking forward to developing this partnership further."

Alan Croney, Director of Property Services, the Metropolitan Police Service, said, "The signing of these contracts represents a significant step towards realising our vision for facilities management which is to move from a traditional management-intensive approach to a more innovative, information- and performance-led culture.  The nature and scope of relationships we are establishing with Interserve and Haden are critical to supporting operational policing and the delivery of our wider asset-management-led Estate Strategy."