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Met Police
awards property
services integrator
contract to Sodexo
Sodexo has secured a £45.3
million contract with
the Metropolitan Police
to manage its estate and
property related services
across London.
The seven-year property
services integrator
contract, with an
extension opportunity
for a further three years,
will see Sodexo’s property
professional services team
work with the UK’s largest
police service to manage its
estate. This includes: police
stations, New Scotland Yard,
communication facilities,
residential and training
centres as well as air and
marine support units that
support the broad spectrum
of activities performed by
the Metropolitan Police.
The team will provide a
range of services including
strategic property advice,
provision of IT systems,
fi nancial management,
procurement, contract and
supply chain management,
and operations and service
continuity planning.
This new contract is
the fi rst to be procured
through the Mayor’s Offi ce
for Police and Crime’s new
property services integrator
framework. Sodexo was
recently appointed sole
supplier for the framework
which is available to all UK
public sector organisations
providing direct access to a
range of property-related
services and support.
Mobilisation of the
contract started in April and
will be complete with full
services live on 1 November
2022.
RICS SAYS DEMAND
FOR UK OFFICE
SPACE IS MOUNTING
AS OCCUPIERS
PLAN RETURN
The start of 2022 saw a jump in new tenants looking to rent UK
commercial property, with the upli particularly prevalent in prime
o ice spaces, according to the RICS Commercial Property Market Survey,
Q1 2022.
Respondents to the survey saw a notable increase in UK o ice demand
in Q1 2022 with the net balance improving to +30 per cent from a flat
picture at the end of 2021. A considerable change in sentiment was also
seen in the retail sector, as occupier demand moved into relatively neutral
territory (-1 per cent net balance), the first time this reading has been
neutral or positive since the beginning of 2017.
Looking at commercial property as a whole, for the first time since 2015
a net balance of +32 per cent of respondents reported an increase in
occupier demand at the all-sector level (retail, o ice and industrial uses).
With the jump in occupier demand for new o ice space, rents are expected
to rise with a net balance of +19 per cent expecting a rise, compared to +7
per cent in the last quarter.
Regionally, rents for prime o ice space in central London are anticipated
to outpace most other UK regions, while the South East is interestingly the
only region in which secondary o ice space is predicted to see growth.
The latest research published by RICS in March has shown that highquality
and well-managed commercial real estate – such as prime o ice
space – is integral to levelling up UK towns and cities, and one of the
asks of the research is that UK Government support CRE, and promote
investment in it, to secure levelling up across the UK.
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