Press Release

10 March 2010

MITIE creates a SPARC with new security profile and risk calculator

MITIE, the strategic outsourcing and asset management company is pleased to announce a new risk-based security tool. This has been developed to provide a bespoke risk management approach to clients’ security needs. 

The Security Profile and Risk Calculator (SPARC) has been designed to provide a thorough security audit of a location at a given snapshot in time. It provides a realistic and holistic analysis of the current security strengths and weaknesses at a client’s premises which can then inform practical recommendations. Encompassing threat evaluation, key drivers for spend and police crime mapping, this unique tool forms part of a wider risk consultancy offering from MITIE. 

Bob Forsyth, Managing Director from MITIE’s Security business commented “SPARC is a new service that will really benefit our clients. Our approach to security provision is a risk based one and this unique tool will help us to demonstrate tangible security improvements and risk evaluation at any given location.” 

SPARC will enable MITIE’s risk team to complete in depth risk evaluations for clients not only highlighting potential security issues, but providing evaluations against a client’s expenditure in terms of best practice and efficiency. The analysis is tailored to the client’s specific business function and type of location e.g. commercial, aviation or retail to name a few. With a live link to a reference library for every aspect of security, MITIE’s clients will benefit from industry leading information. 

The SPARC tool will produce prioritised and measured recommendations on risk mitigation measures compliant with relevant security related British Standards, legislative requirements and current industry best practice. The whole approach is based on a risk management framework as defined by the new British Standards on risk management.

For further information, contact: 

Erica Lockhart Investor, Public & Media Relations Manager
T: 020 7022 8438 M: 07979 784488 E: erica.lockhart@mitie.com

Notes for editors

What is MITIE?
We’re the strategic outsourcing and asset management company.

What does that mean in practice? Providing everything from strategic consultancy, to world-class delivery on the ground. From long-term infrastructure planning, to facilities management, property and engineering services. Our strategic input can add value at the highest level, while our practical management expertise can save customers money and maximise their returns.

At the same time, it’s not just what we do, but how we do it that makes us different. Our people are passionate about what they do, committed to working in partnership with their clients, and will always look for a fresh answer to a new challenge.

We work with our clients in three ways; some take full advantage of our whole range of expertise by buying the whole suite, others may only need one aspect of what we do:

Strategy and consultancy

+ Facilities and project management

+ Service delivery

In other words, we think, we manage, and we deliver.

The thinking phase is all about finding strategic answers to long-term challenges about assets and resources. Facilities and project management puts those plans in place, and our unrivalled range of services is one of the best in the business.

There’s a lot more to MITIE than you probably think. We’re a big company with big ambitions - a leading FTSE 250 support services business, with more than 50,000 people, revenues in excess of £1.5bn, and a reputation for being the best.