PriDE manages Defence Estates’ South East Regional Prime Contract (SE RPC). Valued at around £380m, the SE RPC is one of five regional prime contracts currently in place in the UK.

Sustainability

Once seen as a luxury, or even an optional extra, a robust sustainability programme is now a necessity within the defence industry. Indeed, the MOD has long placed sustainability at the heart of its decision making and as a supplier it is important to mirror this approach. Thus, at a time when social opinion and market forces have moved sustainability from a side issue to a central concern, PriDE is actively driving a step-change in the development of cost effective, sustainable solutions for the management of MOD facilities.

PriDE was already undertaking numerous initiatives and engaging with its Customer on how further reductions in energy consumption and carbon emissions might be achieved and was identified as a champion of sustainability.

Consequently in 2007 PriDE launched the campaign ‘PriDE Goes Green’. This was the brand for a whole host of energy-saving, environmentally friendly initiatives from energy surveys that helped customers to realise real money and energy reductions to a contract wide sustainability incentive scheme. PriDE has produced a sustainability policy in line with government targets, established a working group and estate strategy team, and engaged customers and employees through focus weeks, training and campaigns to encourage customers and employees to get involved and think ‘green’.

As a result PriDE was proud to have the commitment to these issues recognised through the British Institute of Facilities Management Award for Sustainability in 2008.