Strategic Advice: FM Audit
GTFM's unique position as an independent white collar FM Consultancy gives us a privileged insight into the FM industry. The short- term nature of our FM Audit commissions and the absence of any corporate operational capability, or any aspiration for such, enables us to provide demonstrably independent advice.
The FM industry is young, maturing and developing continuously. The size and complexity of opportunities coming to the market are increasing. Clients are constantly redefining their perception of core and non- core business. In response Service Providers are demonstrating an expanding appetite for the size and complexity of FM opportunities.
In such a dynamic environment the optimisation of FM service provision is dependent upon truly scaleable contractual mechanisms. These contractual mechanisms must be capable of remaining relevant to the clients evolving requirements over the entirety of the contract life.
GTFM enable our clients to achieve a solution for their non core business requirements that represents a best strategic fit with their core business over the short, the medium and the longer term. We understand the demands of the modern working environment including the corporate governance issues that face our private sector clients, the public accountability issues with which our public sector clients have to deal and the probity issues that are common to both.
GTFM audit existing business practices and compare them with industry best practice and peer group successes. Whilst an objective of an FM Audit can be to identify operational and/ or financial benefits this will not be achieved at the expense of quality, thoroughness, or ratification of existing processes and procedures where these are appropriate.
Should our FM Audit identify a gap between our clients present model for FM service delivery and current best practice in the market; GTFM can inform the development of contract documentation and supporting performance monitoring for the service going forward.
The advantages and benefits to the client of GTFM's FM Audit capabilities include:
- Demonstrably impartial advice.
- An opportunity to 'close any gap' between the clients current model for FM service delivery and the best practice model available in the market.
- A cost effective solution as GTFM do not represent a long term cost burden to our clients.
- We facilitate cost effective solutions, both, through the optimisation of service delivery and the elimination of wasteful practices.
- We facilitate solutions predicated upon risk transfer to the party best placed to manage it thus eliminating expensive risk premiums.
In short a GTFM FM Audit comprises a full analysis of structures, roles and responsibilities, benchmarked against industry best practice, peer group successes and GTFM's market experience. It is a robust health check of FM service delivery.