The new real Living Wage rates reinforce the importance of fair pay for frontline facilities management teams. For clients and service providers, they also highlight the need to review how services are specified, organised and contracted to deliver sustainable value. The Living Wage Foundation has announced its rates for 2026–2027, with the UK rate increasing […]
Sitemark says the proposed £3.1 billion acquisition highlights a wider challenge for the facilities management sector: as service providers grow in scale and complexity, clients need credible, independent evidence that performance, quality and accountability are being maintained. The proposed acquisition of Mitie by OCS could create one of the UK’s largest facilities management groups and […]
Independent facilities management benchmarking and best-practice consultancy Sitemark has been appointed to Lot 9, Facilities Management Consultancy, on Fusion21’s Construction Consultancy Services Framework, worth £175 million, marking a significant milestone in its efforts to enhance efficiency, compliance, and sustainability across the UK public sector. The national framework offers public and social sector organisations easy access […]
In Facilities Management (FM), you’re constantly asked to deliver more with less. You might measure how much you’re spending per square metre, how many hours of labour go into a task, or how much energy your building consumes per occupant. These are important figures — but they only tell half the story. To truly understand […]
Turning Insight Into Impact: How Sitemark Helps Clients Drive Real Change After Benchmark Reviews At Sitemark, a benchmark review isn’t just the end of a process — it’s the beginning of real transformation. When a Sitemark Benchmark Review is completed and scored, with detailed evaluations across efficiency and effectiveness, the true value lies in what […]
Martyn’s Law is Coming – Is Your Organisation Ready? Understand Your Obligations. Build Your Confidence. Protect Your People. On April 3, 2025, the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025—commonly known as Martyn’s Law—received Royal Assent. Over the next 24 months, organisations across the UK must prepare to meet new legal duties designed to protect the […]
We explain the key updates in the new National Standards of Healthcare and how they impact healthcare settings in England.
Public sector procurement is undergoing its most significant transformation in over 30 years. On 24 February 2025, the Public Procurement Act 2023 came into force,.
In the current environment, it’s more important than ever to make sure an organisation’s physical spaces are compliant with the latest security measures.
The Sitemark team have had a strong start to the year and are well on their way to facilitating £100 million in contract awards for 2024.
Benchmarking; the act of comparing business processes and performance to industry best practices within a peer group, and allowing organisations to continually make improvements in productivity by focusing on quality, time and cost. The year 2022 finds us transitioning into uncharted territory, ‘the new normal’: presenting businesses with a myriad of unseasoned hurdles. The situation […]
Sitemark has been chosen by the University of Westminster to support its procurement of cleaning services across its London estate.
