South Atlantic Infrastructure Support Provider

South Atlantic infrastructure support provider

Facts and figures

  • Formed an Integrated Supply Organisation with Defence Estates personnel
  • Chosen contractor for new form of delivery model based on open partnership
  • 600 facilities ranging from accommodation blocks, Service Family Quarters, technical assets, hangars, workshops, recreational facilities, main runway, hard standings and aeronautical ground lighting (AGL), to main power station, water treatment and sewage plants, roads and tracks, heavy plant and equipment and transport fleet 
  • Main Power Station generates 5.5 MW (average) each and every day to meet demands
  • 35,424 m3 of potable water is produced each month
  • We carry out 700 different types of professional and technical inspections each year
  • The Airbase supports approximately 12,000 movements each year, 48 per cent being civil aircraft such as the Boeing 747 or DC 10. Some 50 per cent of all movements are rotary wing

Following the successful delivery of our WSM Contract on the Falkland Islands, Interserve secured the Infrastructure Support Provider Contract for the Falkland Islands and Ascension Island, which commenced in February 2004.

The five year, £17m p.a. contract develops the previous tri-partied WSM delivery model into a single integrated supplier organisation formed in partnership between Interserve and the Defence Estates Overseas Business Unit. Interserve was awarded the contract for demonstrating a high level of quality trained managers, an open-book approach to costs and a strong awareness of health and safety issues.

Services

We deliver the full spectrum of facilities services necessary to support an operational and self-sufficient military base which also acts as an operational base for civil aircraft. The most important being the AIRBRIDGE shuttle service that provides a regular passenger and freight service to the Falkland Islands using Wideawake Airbase on Ascension Island as the mid point re-fuelling stop. Our service delivery from (160 No) employees on FIB and (70 No) AIB includes:

  • Power generation
  • Mechanical and electrical maintenance
  • Minor new building works
  • Grounds maintenance
  • Construction plant and equipment
  • Maintenance
  • Design and build new works programme
  • Waste and tip management
  • Masts and towers maintenance
  • Core plant management and procurement
  • Stores maintenance and management
  • Project management
  • War graves maintenance
  • Deep cleaning
  • Emergency call out service
  • Plant and transport

Achievements

  • Introduced a programme and project management system and an informal help desk for end users and, through improvements in health and safety and customer relations, developed a high level of trust with the client. This proved valuable when the MoD decided to introduce new and improved estate management structures, such as Prime Contracting and its requirement for a fundamentally different approach to estate procurement built on a longer-term and more co-operative relationship with the private sector
  • The Infrastructure Support Provider (ISP) service delivery support the most complex operational RAF Airbase in extreme climatic conditions located 8,000 miles from UK support functions
  • In addition to the Discrete Works Programme of new works provided each year, Interserve now provides capital works as a single source of support to the MoD
  • Key to the military support function is the effective maintenance of the bulk fuel storage and aircraft re-fuelling facilities and essential operational maintenance of the Aeronautical Ground Lighting
  • In 2006 Interserve constructed a £1m Fuel Bowser Park and a Hazardous Waste Compound (£500k)
  • In 2007 Interserve constructed a Service Family Accommodation estate of 12 No: houses on MPA (£3m) with the first occupant receiving congratulations from Interserve CEO and the Commander British Forces South Atlantic
  • The Airbase provides an operational base for civil flights by LAN CHILE, Brintel Helicopter Services around the Falkland Islands as well as the Falkland Islands fixed wing Air Service (FIGAS)