Navy accommodation PFI wins top PFM Award

04 November 2008

The winning Interserve and MoD team with (far left standing) sponsor, Steve Francis of sponsors of Barclays

A partnership formed through a PFI project to transform accommodation and services for Navy personnel at HMS Drake in Plymouth has won the Partners in PFI/PPP Award and the Overall Award at the PFM Awards 2008 held at The Brewery, London on Tuesday 4th November.

The winners, Interserve with the Ministry of Defence, are partners in a PFI to build, operate and maintain the Single Living Accommodation facilities at the Fleet Accommodation Centre in Devonport. Interserve provides total facilities management to these facilities at HMS Drake in a 24- year contract worth some £10m a year. It includes providing 3,200 meals a day, cleaning 1,560 cabins and providing hotel services to 1,658 people as well as estate management services across the whole site.

The judges said ”This is an outstanding partnership delivering a wide range of extremely high quality services and it has developed excellent working relationship at strategic and operational levels. This winner is a role model from whom others can learn.”

This is the second year running that Interserve has claimed the top prize at the PFM Awards. Last year, Landmarc Facilities, the joint venture company formed by Interserve Defence and CSC Applied Technology Division to deliver £600m contract to manage, maintain and develop military training facilities across Defence Training Estate, won the overall PFM Award in 2007.

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The PFM Awards dinner held at the Brewery this week (Tuesday 4th November) was hosted by TV presenter, Melissa Porter, and was attended by nearly 600 people from the facilities management sector. Now in their 15th year, the PFM Awards are recognised throughout the facilities management sector as the premier accolade for best practice at working in partnership to deliver facilities and support services across a broad spectrum of activities and industries. Other winners came from across the public and private sectors including education, retail, financial services, airports and art galleries.

Other category winners are as follows:

PARTNERS IN BUSINESS CHANGE
PiMS Workspace with Skandia UK

PARTNERS IN SUSTAINABILITY
Amaryllis with British Airways

PARTNERS WITH PEOPLE
Mailsource with Boots

FMA YOUNG MANAGER OF THE YEAR
Clare Raybould of Interserve

PFM AWARD IN PARTNERING EXCELLENCE
John Adams of EMCOR Facilities Services

MITIE Business Innovation Award
TNT Financial Services with The Cheque and Credit Clearing Company

E-BUSINESS AWARD
OCS Window Cleaning

PARTNERS IN EXPERT SERVICES
SPIE Matthew Hall with The Tate Galleries

PARTNERS IN MULTI SERVICE
M&S with Emprise Services, Initial Retail Cleaning, GS Associates, and Integrated Cleaning Management

PARTNERS IN PUBLIC SERVICE
Dalkia with North Somerset Council

PARTNERS IN PFI/PPP
Interserve with the MoD (Navy)

EUROPEAN FM PARTNERS ACROSS BORDERS
Microsoft with Business & Facilities

PARTNERS IN FACILITIES MANAGEMENT
EMCOR with National Air Traffic Services

More details of the finalists and winners entries can be seen on www.pfmmagazine.co.uk