Fraikin has beaten off tough
competition to be awarded a lucrative fleet management contract
with the UK’s Environment Agency.
The scale of the two-year deal is said
to be significant, with units – which range from construction
plants to off-road trailers, tractors and grass-cutting machines –
being financed. Under the terms of the agreement, Fraikin, which
has a fleet size of 50,000 units, will provide the Environment
Agency with a comprehensive repair and maintenance service.
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Operations will be managed by
Fraikin’s customer service centre, which will provide 24-hour
support, and will be responsible for facilitating a single-point
service and repair booking facility, covering all agricultural and
plant fleet assets.
Emma Law, senior procurement officer
at the Environment Agency, said that the agency had opted for a
“single managing agent” to look after its fleet in order to benefit
from efficiencies in terms of both cost and services.
She added: “We invited a number of
suppliers to tender for this contract, before awarding the two-year
agreement to Fraikin after demonstrating its capacity and abilities
to manage a national contract of this nature.”
Historically Fraikin has leased assets
to the Environment Agency’s south-west and north-east regions.
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By GlobalDataHowever, the current agreement is much
wider than previous contracts, both in terms of number of assets
and the type of equipment being financed.
The fleet will be used to help the
agency in its daily activities, ranging from restoring rivers and
lakes to looking after wildlife, and, more broadly, the protection
of the environment from threats such as flood and pollution.
The actual fleet size being covered by
the Coventry-based CV lessor has not been disclosed, although it is
understood it is “very significant”, with several hundreds “and
maybe even thousands” of units being looked after.
