From ensuring availability of mission critical assets and
equipment management to military training, Babcock is the number
one Support Services provider to the UK MoD.
Mission critical assets - vehicles
Through a joint venture, ALC, with its partner
Amey plc, Babcock delivers the 16 year PFI C vehicles capability
contract. Voted the best Operational Defence PFI, the contract
deploys 2,200 engineering support vehicles around the world on
behalf of the Royal Engineers and Royal Logistics Corps. In
addition to vehicle availability, the contract covers asset
replacement and disposal, in fact most of the equipment acquisition
(CADMID) cycle. To ensure high availability of this equipment
Babcock has a team of Field Service Representatives based in
Afghanistan providing Contractor Support to
Operations.
Following 10 years of successfully delivering the
White Fleet contract providing and managing over 15,000 vehicles
for the Ministry of Defence, Babcock was selected in 2011 as the
service provider for the follow-on contract Project Phoenix. The
new contract additionally incorporates market leading telematic
vehicle tracking technology, on-line booking and innovative fleet
management systems. A further 400 White and Green vehicles are
managed, maintained and driven in a 10 year contract as
sub-contractor to Aspire Defence on the Allenby Connaught
PFI.
Babcock also manages armoured and support vehicle
training fleets. Through fleet scheduling and management including
line maintenance, we provide over 500 Vehicles to ensure training
delivery to the Army.
Military training
Babcock has a 30-year contract with the Royal
School of Military Engineering (RSME), delivered by Holdfast Training Services, a Babcock
led consortium. The partnership between the Royal Engineers and
Holdfast offers a solution that integrates facilities management,
equipment care and asset management as well as training delivery as
an integrated offering across all of the Royal Engineers' training
establishments. The programme has already delivered significant
financial savings to the MoD as well as modernised facilities.
Babcock has launched a programme of training transformation to
modernise training methodologies and to implement strategies that
will deliver better trained soldiers who will spend less time in
the training pipeline and more time in operational units. RSME is
at the forefront of this work which has implications for military
training right across the British Army and the
MoD.
Babcock manages and operates The Armour Centre, the
Army's main armoured training facility in Bovington Dorset -
providing specialist training, maintenance and support services for
the Armoured Fighting Vehicle (AFV) Driving and Maintenance School,
AFV Communication and Information Systems School and the AFV
Gunnery School. Of the 1900 students trained per year a consistent
pass rate of 95% + has been achieved.
For more than 10 years, Babcock has provided
Training and Support Services to the Royal Electrical Mechanical
Engineers (REME) at the School of Electronic and Aeronautical
Engineering (SEAE) and REME Arms School at Arborfield and the
School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering (SEME) at
Bordon. Babcock manages and delivers a comprehensive range of
courses and qualifications in the UK and overseas that are
recognised as best in class. Supporting the front line, we deliver
training in partnership with a range of defence equipment
manufacturers.