Surrey based Grounds Care Group (GCG) has been awarded a six figureulti-year Grounds Maintenance contract to manage the outdoor estates of one of the UK’s leading social care providers, The Riverside Group (Riverside).
As part of this long-term contract, GCG will manage a full range of grounds maintenance services at more than 150 sites across London and the South East. In addition, GCG will provide seasonal gritting and ad hoc site support with requirements such as bulk waste removal, soft landscaping, one off site tidy ups and the treatment of invasive species. GCG is currently Riverside’s sole nationwide invasive weed supplier, carrying out audits and treatment plans of all invasive weeds, such as knotweed and bamboo. The new deal will strengthen the partnership and expand on the service offering.
Riverside were impressed with GCG’s track record for reliability and quality of service, as well as their ability to provide detailed site reporting. This enables Riverside to have full visibility of the services provided by GCG, while ensuring that they remain fully compliant and free from risk across all sites, at all times.
Grounds Care Group CEO, Adam Brindle, explains: “Riverside understand that having one company managing their entire outdoor estate across London and the South East simplifies the whole process and saves time, effort and ultimately, costs.”
“Beyond this, they will benefit from our integrated and proactive approach to risk management and compliance, which is driven by our innovative leading-edge technology. This ensures greater transparency of both opportunities and risks across all of the sites that we manage. It also improves accountability and ultimately provides a better and safer experience for them, their customers and staff.”
As an initial exercise GCG audited more than 150 sites within a three-week period, scoring every site with a percentage value for each service, such as lawns, hedges, beds and borders. They were then able to raise any issues regarding access, quality and performance within key areas of each site. This data was provided in a comprehensive report, enabling effective benchmarking for how each site could be improved over time as well as all accessible via our customer portal. This gave Riverside valuable live site data, something they had not received in the past.
Having access to GCG’s live data, detailing every site visit and task carried out, is revolutionary and will provide Riverside with a much better understanding of the maintenance and safety requirements on each site. This, along with their monthly KPI reports, will provide much greater peace of mind that their outdoor estates are being effectively managed and that their residents are safe at all times.
Headquartered in Surrey, Grounds Care Group now services over 1,000 sites across the South of England and a further 1,500 sites nationwide. Its impressive and rapidly growing client base includes some of the UK’s leading facilities management, construction, rail, retail and property companies as well as a broad range of public sector organisations. GCG are proud to deliver professional grounds maintenance services using old fashioned values with modern day technology.
For further information on Grounds Care Group visit www.gcgrp.co.uk