Rok adds £90m to turnover with eight new deals

Rok announced this morning that it has won eight new awards under framework agreements which are together expected to add £90m to turnover over the next four years.

Counting in these latest deals, the total value of the 22 frameworks won by Rok so far this year runs to £440m, compared with £290m-worth this time last year.

Rok puts the favourable decisions down to its ability to provide a nationally managed but locally delivered maintenance service 24 hours a day and seven days a week.

One of the new deals is with Wincanton, the UK's second-largest logistics company, to provide planned maintenance, repair and building alteration services for its warehouses and offices. 

A similar arrangement has been agreed with Craegmoor Healthcare, a provider of specialist care and support to people with learning disabilities, mental health illnesses and older people, for the care homes, colleges and hospitals they run in Central England and the South East. 

Bracknell Forest Council has become the latest local authority to plug in to Rok's planned and response maintenance services for its schools and public buildings.

The latest statement from Rok reports that it has been asked to replace kitchens, bathrooms and heating systems in Bath for Somer Housing Group.

In Lancashire, where the group has been working on a similar replacement scheme for Wigan and Leigh Housing, it has now been asked to carry out planned maintenance on the exteriors of its rented properties. 

Garvis Snook, Rok's chief executive, said: "The fact that we employ so many of our own people to deliver these services which are available round the clock if required, continues to prove popular with the market."