New contractor to manage federal buildings

TORONTO-BASED SNC-LAVALiN ProFac (www.snclavalinprofac. com/index.html, wholly owned by SNC-Lavalin Group Inc.) has won the contract to manage 319 federal government buildings across Canada. The contract, worth $490 million in the first year and $350 million per year each following year, will run from April 1,2005 to March 31,2009. Services to be provided under the contract include: building inspection, cleaning and operations, landscaping, new construction, repairs, space optimization and refits. SNC-Lavalin ProFac demonstrated that it could manage the properties to the government's stated expectations, and save the federal government $50 million annually. Brookfield Lepage Johnson Controls (BLJC) had been providing the service to the federal government since 1997 and will continue to do so until their contract ends, March 31,2005.