Lafarge has awarded Babcock International Group a £100m ten-year
contract to provide a fleet managed service for its Heavy Mobile
Equipment (HME) located across its Aggregate and Cement sites in
North America. The programme follows the £50m fleet management
contract awarded to Babcock in July 2011, which covers Lafarge's
Aggregate and Cement sites in the UK.
Babcock is delivering a whole lifecycle approach to managing
Lafarge's fleet of vehicles and equipment, from procuring and
supporting the equipment through to arranging equipment disposal.
The contract covers HME including vehicles such as loaders, heavy
rigid and articulated trucks, excavators, and bulldozers. Through
Babcock's proven partnering approach, Lafarge will be able to focus
on their core activity of delivering world class materials, whilst
benefitting from the efficiencies, a multi jurisdictional overview
of its fleet operations, and the sharing of best practice that this
new service will deliver.
Said Neal Misell, Babcock's Managing Director, Mobile Assets:
"This contract marks a significant milestone with Lafarge.
Following the successful UK roll out, our dedicated team in North
America is ready to deliver the highest level of support to
Lafarge's Aggregates and Cement businesses, enabling transformation
in the way the fleet is operated and managed."
Babcock currently manages close on 30,000 vehicles and over
176,000 equipment stock lines globally. This includes a 16 year PFI
C vehicles capability contract to deploy and support 2,200
engineering support vehicles around the world on behalf of the
Royal Engineers and Royal Logistics Corps, the White Fleet contract
providing a range of over 14,000 vehicles to the Ministry of
Defence, as well as managing British Airways' UK airside vehicles
and the Metropolitan Police Service's operational fleet. Using
ALCAMiE, its unique proven method of delivery, Babcock transforms
that way that customers optimise their fleet and equipment
availability, improving performance and reducing the lifetime costs
of ownership and uncertainly.