Eric Wright Facilities Management (FM) has secured a new deal to service 16 PFI fire stations across the North West.

The team has been appointed as a subcontractor by ENGIE Services Limited and Balfour Beatty under the partnership's PFI arrangement to carry out FM services over the next 18 years.

The service stations, which are located across Merseyside, Lancashire and Cumbria, are all designed, built, financed and operated by Balfour Beatty Investments. They range in size from a single appliance fire station to multi-appliance stations, with additional garaging for special equipment. Some of the sites also include training facilities and office space.


In addition, Eric Wright FM will deliver a range of services which include both hard and soft FM services such as service desk operation, statutory compliance, planned and reactive maintenance, energy management, grounds maintenance, vending, cleaning and janitorial services.

As part of the contractor, the Eric Wright team has also transferred, under TUPE regulations, seven team members including a technical services supervisor, engineers and caretaker from ENGIE into Eric Wright FM, as well as 18 staff to cleaning sub-contractor Future Cleaning Services.

Kate Bailey, Senior Business Development Manager, said: "Providing facilities management to the emergency services sector is an exciting new challenge for us and, together with the education and healthcare markets, we see it as a significant future growth area for the business.

"To be appointed on our largest contract to date in this area over an 18 year period is testament to the knowledge and skills we have in our team."

(LM/MH)