Knowledge library

Every artefact is a versioned object. Deprecated artefacts stay searchable and are excluded from builder suggestions.

Competitors

Fourteen competitor reports held apart from the independent Market view. Every card ends with a Trellis Meriden relevance line so the reader knows what to do with it in the field.

Northstar ServicesSector economics
07

Better services for the public

December 2021

Public Healthcare sites spent about £9.5bn in 2018/19 of which soft FM was £3.2bn. Outsourced hospital cleaning runs about 7.5 per cent cheaper than in-house and each additional bid in a re-tender cuts lifetime cost 2.5 to 3.0 per cent.

Trellis Meriden relevance.

This is the independent-looking evidence base a first-outsourcing organisation board will accept and it is Northstar Services-funded, so use the figures in business cases and be ready for the whose-research-is-it challenge.

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Northstar ServicesSector economics
12

Delivering better services for the public

2021

Northstar Services-commissioned independent view. Estimates 45 per cent of Public Healthcare facilities management services are outsourced. Sits alongside the Trellis Meriden half-outsource view as a corroborating data point.

Trellis Meriden relevance.

Same underlying report as position 7, kept for continuity of citations in older Trellis Meriden materials, so prefer the position 7 anchor for new bids.

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Organisation-type coverage
40%

2 of 5 organisation types covered by at least one LIVE Tier 1 artefact.

Tier balance
5 to 2

71 percent of LIVE artefacts are Tier 1. Aim for at least 60 percent Tier 1.

Organisations with zero cleared artefacts
35

These organisations cannot yet be cited from Trellis Meriden material in outbound work.

Triggers without a how-to
6

Named trigger with no drafting playbook in the library.