Facilitate - Universities Challenged

Facilitate magazine

Overview

Another year, another frustrating place in the national media spotlight for a failing facilities service supplier. Interserve’s problems have again put the outsourced sector’s recurring issues of pay, performance and pricing right back at the centre of national debate. An outside observer, seeing this as simply another Carillion happening one year on, will reasonably ask: how can all of this be happening again? Worse, the story has emerged just as people are seeking something, anything to act as sweet relief from Parliament’s ‘Escher’s stair’ approach to Brexit – a process far from any kind of conclusion at time of going to press...