BT Fleet announces UK sole supplier agreement with Wales & West Utilities

DC13-433 December 3, 2013

BT Fleet announces UK sole supplier agreement with Wales & West Utilities BT Fleet, part of BT Group and one of the UK's leading fleet management companies, today announced that Wales & West Utilities has signed a four year sole supplier agreement to manage their fleet of 1,200 in the UK, comprising heavy vehicles, LCVs and plant.

Wales & West Utilities operate the gas distribution network throughout Wales and the South West of England serving more than 2.5 million gas consumers.

The decision to appoint BT Fleet followed a detailed tender process. Wales & West Utilities chose BT Fleet as the provider best suited to meet the company's key business objective of minimising downtime across their fleet. This plays a critical role in ensuring the highest levels of service are offered to millions of households and businesses across Wales & West Utilities' network.

Within the industry, BT Fleet has the most extensive garage network in the UK for mission-critical fleets, so that if a vehicle requires servicing or repairs there is always a garage available nearby to ensure that the vehicle is back on the road as quickly as possible.

In addition to ensuring vehicle downtime is kept to a minimum, BT Fleet will also take responsibility for managing Wales & West Utilities' fleet supplier network. As part of this process, BT Fleet has already rationalised the supplier network, consolidating it into a strategic list of partners to create an efficient, time-saving supplier framework.

Andrew Pettiford, Fleet manager, Wales & West Utilities, said: we chose BT Fleet as fleet management partners for Wales & West Utilities as they were considered best in class. They have the experience of managing large commercial vehicle fleets, supported by a quality garage network that will ensure our fleet stays on the road.

Dave Bowen, managing director of BT Fleet, said: We are delighted to secure this four year sole supplier agreement between BT Fleet and Wales & West Utilities. This highlights their long term confidence in our ability to deliver an outsourced fleet solution. The combination of BT Fleet's account management team and our garage network will ensure that all of Wales & West Utilities' objectives for managing their fleet are achieved.

Notes to editors

About BT Fleet

BT Fleet is a part of BT Group and one of the UK's leading fleet management companies.

Based in Coventry, BT Fleet has a team of over 700 people and manages a UK-wide network of over 500 garages of which it owns 64. BT Fleet maintains more than 75,000 vehicles comprising commercial vehicles, complex specialist vehicles and cars.

BT Fleet provides fleet maintenance and management services to companies whose fleets are mission critical to their core business and keeping them on the road is central to their success.

BT Fleet was awarded 2013 Cost Saving of the Year by Fleet News, 2013 Best Use of Technology by Motor Transport; 2010 Van Fleet Service Company of the Year, 2009 Van Fleet Management Initiative of the Year and Van Service & Repair Company of the Year by Fleet Van magazine. It is also ISO9001 and ISO14001 accredited.

For further information regarding BT Fleet and its services, please visit www.btfleet.com.

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