What is a Managed Equipment Service (MES) ?

Basically the scope of the service comprises the purchase, installation, commissioning, management, maintenance, replacement and disposal of cremation equipment. Unlike a straightforward lease, our MES includes service and maintenance.

You will have the opportunity to renegotiate arrangements mid-term to reflect your changing requirements – number of cremations or revised environmental factors for example.

A significant advantage of the MES is that it guarantees the replacement of equipment after its recommended lifecycle. Enhanced financial management and planning as a result of consistent equipment-related costs. Payment is linked to the performance regime.

Elements of our service include:

• Provision of funding for the purchase of new equipment and management of its procurement.
  
• Transfer of equipment from the Council realising capital for other developments.
  
• Procurement and acceptance testing of equipment, in partnership with crematorium
  
• Comprehensive maintenance and repair of all managed equipment to an agreed output service specification
  
• Planned Preventative Maintenance Management
  
• Ongoing user training

MES transfers the risk of providing technologically up-to-date cremation equipment to the private sector. This will ensure that the operating efficiency of the crematorium will not be compromised at some future point in time by the lack of availability of public capital to replace technically obsolete or worn-out equipment.