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OGC to improve Government estate management
Released on 25/05/2005
A six-month pilot project to assess how government can improve the management and use of its estate has begun.
Launched jointly by the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) and Occupiers Property Databank (OPD), an international firm of property experts, it will look at occupancy costs, space use and building and management effectiveness to provide a benchmark figure the government will use to improve its performance and make efficiency savings.
A project board, drawn from OGC, the Department for Trade and Industry, the Department for Health, the Home Office, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Department for Work and Pensions, will draw together a list of key performance indicators.
If the pilot is successful the service will be rolled out to all government departments over a further two and half years.
With a civil estate comprising over 260 individual property centres, occupying over 10 million squares metres of floor space, it currently costs central government around £2 billion a year to manage its estate, so the scope for significant efficiency gains is high.
Contact details:
OGC Service Desk
Tel: 0845 000 4999
E-mail: ServiceDesk@ogc.gsi.gov.uk
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