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One Operator, Five Divisions: How Integrated Facilities Management Works in the UK
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One Operator, Five Divisions: How Integrated Facilities Management Works in the UK

Integrated site services means buying security, cleaning, facilities maintenance, construction support and fire protection from one accountable supplier on one contract, instead of from four or five specialists. In the UK it is usually called integrated facilities management, or IFM. The buyer gets one project manager, one report and one point of escalation across every site in scope.

JimPatrick Munupe · 14 September 2026Read article →

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What Main Contractors Look for in a Compliant Site-Services Supplier
Procurement Intelligence14 August 2026

What Main Contractors Look for in a Compliant Site-Services Supplier

Qualifying a site-services supplier properly takes more than checking a logo strip on their website. Buyers who get this wrong inherit the risk, whether that is a Health and Safety Executive enforcement notice, a contractor who cannot mobilise on the date promised, or a subcontractor who cannot survive a 90-day payment cycle. This article sets out the evaluation criteria a principal contractor's procurement team, or an estates and facilities director doing due diligence on a security, cleaning, construction support, vacant property or fire protection supplier, should actually be checking, and why each one matters.

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Modern Slavery Due Diligence in Construction and Facilities Supply Chains: A Practical Buyer's Checklist
Procurement Intelligence25 June 2026

Modern Slavery Due Diligence in Construction and Facilities Supply Chains: A Practical Buyer's Checklist

A genuine modern slavery due diligence process is not a policy document sitting in a drawer. It is a live set of checks, on the supply chain, on labour providers, and on individual workers, repeated often enough to catch problems before they become a legal, reputational or human one. This article sets out what the Modern Slavery Act 2015 actually requires, what real due diligence looks like in a construction or facilities management supply chain, and a checklist procurement buyers can use to assess whether a contractor's own due diligence is more than a paragraph in a tender response.

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