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From awg plc
Date: 02/01/2001
£325M 'First Fruit' for AWG
A £325 million contract has been won by awg plc to maintain and repair all housing stock and public buildings owned by North Lanarkshire Council – Scotland’s fourth largest local authority – over the next ten years.
Award of this milestone facilities management contract represents the ‘first fruit’ of awg plc, formed when Anglian Water plc acquired Edinburgh-based Morrison plc in September.
AWG has established a new company called Morrison Property Care to handle this contract in which North Lanarkshire Council has a 33 per cent interest.
Responsibility for maintaining the authority’s 50,000 homes, town halls, schools, libraries and other public buildings changes hands on 22 January 2001 – when around 700 council staff and operatives working from existing depots at Coatbridge, Motherwell and Kilsyth will transfer under the terms of the Public Private Partnership to the new company.
Gordon Morrison, Executive Director of AWG Asset Management, said today:
“We are delighted that one of Scotland’s foremost authorities has placed its confidence in AWG’s facilities management expertise.
“Prior to amalgamating our resources, both Anglian and Morrison had each identified facilities outsourcing as an area of major diversification in which working to existing strengths we could grow our businesses vigorously.
“The synergy in merging these operations was clearly compelling. Now combined, the breadth and depth of our complementary strengths, together embracing every facet of utilities and construction management, enable AWG Asset Management to meet the facilities outsourcing requirements of virtually any area of the private or public sectors.”
Speaking for North Lanarkshire Council, Leader Jim McCabe said: “I would like to pay tribute to the sterling work done by many officers and members of the Council. Their hard work has turned round, what at one time seemed, a hopeless situation into a unique and groundbreaking partnership that will provide best value for the people of North Lanarkshire as well as providing an excellent template which could be followed by other local authorities.
Councillor McCabe added, “I wish the new company well and I am confident that it will provide a top quality housing and property maintenance and repairs service to the people of North Lanarkshire while securing the future of the staff transferring to it”.
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