{"id":6176,"date":"2011-06-15T16:47:59","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T16:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=6176"},"modified":"2011-06-15T16:47:59","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T16:47:59","slug":"dsa-facilities-management-savings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=6176","title":{"rendered":"DSA Facilities Management Savings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6178 lazyload\" title=\"Soapbox Radical\" alt=\"Soapbox Radical\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/orator.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 180px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 180\/180;\" \/>Oooooh! <a title=\"DSA Facilities Management News\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/7thspace.com\/headlines\/386010\/uk_millions_saved_on_facilities_management.html\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800000\">This one will get the little DSA-hating rads<\/a> out there wet about their nether regions!<\/p>\n<p>According to this press release, the DSA has signed a 4-year deal with Interserve for the servicing and maintenance of their sites &#8211; a total of 439 properties across the UK. The Dft and VOSA is also included in this deal.<\/p>\n<p>The deal apparently reduces costs by up to 40 per cent of their current value.<\/p>\n<p>The only part which worries me is the fact that it includes switchboard and helpdesk answering services. I hope this doesn&#8217;t include bookings.<\/p>\n<p>The reason I say that is that I have direct experience of one such management service provider (Capita) taking over tech support for a large technical product supplier (PC World). In the end, it was like buying a fox to guard your chickens &#8211; it seemed cute, but it got ugly very quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oooooh! This one will get the little DSA-hating rads out there wet about their nether regions! According to this press release, the DSA has signed a 4-year deal with Interserve for the servicing and maintenance of their sites &#8211; a total of 439 properties across the UK. The Dft and VOSA is also included in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-dsa-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}