West Midlands Fire Service

Relocation of headquarters to a new purpose built facility

 

BCL successfully relocated the West Midlands Fire Service headquarters, fire control, ICT support and stores functions to a new build headquarters site over 15 phases during late 2008 and early 2009 ensuring minimal down time of critical operational functions.

As a government body, the West Midlands Fire Service applied a detailed tender process to all interested parties for the relocation services required. Companies were required to provide a value for money service around a complex phased move programme, but also had to comply with the organisation’s quality assurance and sustainability requirements as well as the equality and diversity policies. BCL demonstrated that they were the most suitable service provider and helped project manage the relocation over an 8 month period.

The relocation was managed professionally and efficiently to facilitate the transfer of over 450 members of staff including IT equipment, filing and 50% of the office furniture.

Some of the relocation’s complexities were:

• Managing the early phases of the relocation to work safely and efficiently on a new build site where other contractors are finishing various aspects of the building.
• Relocating critical operational functions outside of regular working hours.
• Managing additional ad hoc relocations to supplement the primary phased relocation programme at short notice to meet the demands of the Fire Service.
• Relocating a stores warehouse facility over a weekend to ensure its continued operation for the following week.

BCL also provided disposal services to remove all remaining items from the former West Midlands Fire Service giving due care to environmental responsibility. Wherever possible white goods and furniture were donated to charity and scrap metal was separated to offset project costs.

 

 

 

 

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