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Nowhere is the issue of UK government spending cuts more keenly felt than the defence sector.

It was recently reported in Building magazine that over the next four years, the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO), which oversees all the MoD’s infrastructure and facilities management, needs to save £1.2bn across the defence estate. Valued at nearly £20bn, and costing nearly £3bn a year to run, the estate comprises approximately 4,000 sites including airfields, naval bases, barracks, major training facilities and 50,000 homes for service families. Overall, the MoD owns about 240,000ha, with rights of access to a further 130,000ha across the UK, and it manages 200,000ha overseas, too.

Capita Symonds is one of the UK's leading delivery partner for real estate and infrastructure solutions across the defence sector, offering a portfolio of services unmatched by our peers that fuses property and strategic real estate expertise with cutting edge design, management, planning, and engineering services.

Our integrated real estate expertise covers the whole property life cycle, enabling our clients to address and overcome their property challenges through improved co-location strategies; stakeholder engagement and management; developer and landlord negotiations; workspace planning; ongoing property & asset management; and the maximisation of disposal income.

We also have a substantial and well proven track record in the design and construction of new buildings – and the refurbishment of existing stock - across all aspects of the MoD’s estate including residential, laboratory, healthcare, office, training, workshop and hanger buildings.

We have worked across all forms of MoD procurement from GC/Works and DefCon 2000 through to PPP/PFI and Regional and Stand-alone Prime Contracting. This is coupled with a thorough working knowledge of JSP Scales together with DIO’s Technical Bulletins, Policy and Guidance documents.

We also have considerable experience pioneered through our PFI and Prime Contracting work of delivering design solutions which recognize the importance of ‘Life Cycle Costing’. This has been achieved by working closely with the supply chain on each of these projects to establish maintenance and replacement cycles together with warranties and guarantees.

Image: Eurofighter Typhoon Maintenance Facility at RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire.

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