Care Home Lifecycle Birmingham

Client: Audley – St Georges Retirement Village Services: Lifecycle Cost Model Sector: Care Homes Location: Birmingham, West Midlands   Project Summary: Opex was commissioned by Audley retirement villages to undertake a 125-year lifecycle model exercise on their St Georges retirement village.​ The Audley St George’s retirement village, located in Birmingham, is made up of two grade…

School Benchmarking Birmingham

Client: Equans Services: Benchmarking Sector: Education Location: Birmingham, UK   Project Summary: Opex was commissioned by Equans to undertake a Benchmark of their PFI schools in the West Midlands, providing like-for-like financial data for comparison against the host scheme(s). The contracts cover primary and secondary schools across different sites in the West Midlands.   Objective: The objective…

Hospital Benchmarking Luton

Client: Luton & Dunstable University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Services: Benchmarking Sector: Healthcare Location: Luton, Bedfordshire   Project Summary: The Benchmarking exercise included a high-level service review, including high-level benchmarks chosen and tailored to be comparable to the client’s unique delivery requirements. This helped in ascertaining if the present contract was providing good value for…

Hospital Benchmarking London

Client: Capital Hospitals Limited Services: Benchmarking Sector: Healthcare Location: London, Greater London   Project Summary: Opex was commissioned to undertake a Hard FM (Estates) benchmarking review for the Barts and Royal London Hospitals PFI, London. The review was designed to assess and evidence if the current Unitary Charge paid to the FMCo (Facilitiles Management Company) for…

Hospital PFI/PPP Expiry UK

Client: Commercially Confidential Services: PFI Expiry Review Sector: Healthcare Location: UK   Project Summary: As our clients Hospital PFI approaches five years from contract expiry. Opex supported its client by conducting a commercial and technical review of the expiry process to help them identify key risks and opportunities. ​ ​ The commercial and technical review helps our client strategically prepare…

Custodial Services Market Testing Sussex

Client: Sussex Custodial Services & Pario Services: Market Testing Sector: Blue Light (Police) Location: Sussex   Project Summary: Opex successfully supported Sussex Custodial Services and Pario in conducting a market test exercise for the Hard FM services. Following the Opex tried and tested Market Testing/Procurement process we produced the Invitation To Tender (ITT) pack, liased with the market, developed and issued the…

Office PFI/PPP Expiry UK

Client: Incendium & Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Services: PFI/PPP Expiry, Handback and Statutory Compliance Sector: Commercial  Location: Nation Wide   Project Summary: The PRIME contract was an £13.3bn, 20 year outsource contract consisting of over 800 buildings by the DWP to the private sector. The PRIME contract was held as one of the very…

Hospital Interim Management Peterborough

Client: Multiplex Service Europe Limited (MSEL) Services: Interim Director of Hard Services Sector: Healthcare Location: Peterborough, Cambridgeshire    Project Summary: Opex provided an interim Director of Hard Services for the Acute NHS Hospital at Peterborough for 18 months to lead the project turnaround of service delivery at the site. The requirements included ensuring statutory compliance,…

Office Strategic Review & Market Testing Woking

Client: WWF-UK Services: Strategic Review/Market Testing Sector: Commercial Location: Woking, Surrey   Project Summary: Opex was commissioned to project manage the WWF offices market testing and implementation of the agreed outsourced hard and soft FM services for the client’s new headquarters building the WWF Living Plant Centre in Woking. These services included: Contract Management, Helpdesk, Building…