Why OUTCO
OUTCO protects, maintains and improves outdoor estate infrastructure. Our combined service offering provides a unique way for our clients to manage their outdoor assets by bringing together multiple outdoor services for greater efficiency, performance and convenience.
OUTCO are the Outdoor Estate Compliance Experts. OUTCO offers the UK’s first end-to-end estate compliance solution powered by smart technology, providing a full range of grounds maintenance, surfacing, infrastructure and winter services to clients nationwide.
Keeping clients compliant
OUTCO’s unique focus is on ensuring that clients’ outdoor estates are fully compliant and safe 365 days a year, so that they can concentrate on meeting their own customer needs.
Making complex tasks easier
Managing the complex requirements of clients operating outdoor estates takes significant time, effort and resource. OUTCO removes this burden and ensure that its clients operate in a safe and compliant fashion so they can focus on their core business.
Driven by technology
OUTCO clients benefit from a unique joined-up and proactive approach to risk management and compliance powered by innovative use of leading-edge technology. This ensures greater transparency of both opportunities and risks across sites, more accountability and better service.
OUTCO’s bespoke technology provides real-time data and visibility on what is been delivered, offering a clear audit trail of activity over time. OUTCO delivers this real-time and compliance data directly into client systems through in-house APIs.
Offering a degree of transparency to your outdoor estates in a way that no other business can.
As well as making services easier to manage, OUTCO’s compliance monitoring and reporting enables clients to effectively manage risk and remain compliant at all times.
End-to-end outdoor estate compliance solution
OUTCO is uniquely positioned to offer clients a simple, single bundled service contract solution for all outdoor estate management requirements, no matter how complex.
Our flexible operating model enables us to match resources to any client’s specific requirement. Highly trained in-house operatives deliver a consistent approach and continuity of service for clients across all of their outdoor estates, giving them the peace of mind that their assets are being taken care of to the highest professional standards.
Unrivalled experience and expertise
With thousands of facility asset sites in its nationwide portfolio, OUTCO expertise spans every industry sector from Local Government, retail, property, industrial and commercial to education and healthcare.
OUTCO brings supply chain simplicity for clients through a nationwide footprint. OUTCO skills, knowledge and capability deliver a scalable and flexible service for the most complex multi-site nationwide portfolios.
OUTCO’s outdoor infrastructure service provision history includes support for the majority of the UK’s major companies operating in the retail, petrochemicals, public services, property and facilities management industries.
Benefits of working with OUTCO
Confidence that outdoor estates will be safe, compliant and fully operational all year round, guaranteeing undisrupted revenue for clients
Incremental revenue for clients driven by innovation
Supply chain simplification and cost efficiency through delivery of an end-to-end service
Cost and administration efficiencies through supply chain simplification, service bundling and technology integration
Data-driven assurance that issues are being resolved, with the evidence repository to demonstrate compliance
Support for facilities and property managers in delivering on their service level agreements
Support for facilities manager strategies to deliver ESG benefits to clients, and confidence that retailers, employers and government are delivering on ESG pledges across their entire real estate footprint
Experience of infrastructure technology innovation enhancements such as drone technology, operative geo-tracking, EV charging and COVID-secure outdoor space use
Creation of outdoor spaces that reflect and support the client brand
End-user delight with their experience of outdoor estates of shopping, work and leisure destinations.
Our complete service keeps our clients one step ahead of operational maintenance, ensuring estates look good and run like clockwork come rain, shine or sno
News
With over two decades of expertise in winter gritting, OUTCO’s operational team has more experience than any other winter services provider in the UK
The UK is experiencing some of its coldest November nights since 2010, with temperatures dropping as low as -8C (18F) in various areas
As winter approaches, many businesses and facilities in the UK are starting to think about gritting their own premises
As the UK braces for a cold spell and wintry showers this week, it is important to be prepared for the changing weather conditions with winter gritting. Temperatures are expected to drop below freezing for much of the country this week, with lows of -8C (17.6F) forecast for Tuesday. Snowfall is possible, but there is “a lot more uncertainty than normal” in forecasts.
As the leaves begin to fall, businesses of every size are faced with the annual challenge of Leaf Clearance on their premises. Those red, brown and yellow tones of Autumn may look stunning and evoke dreamy thoughts of stirring family walks and mulled wine, but for business, falling leaves clog drains, leading to water damage and flooding, and accumulate on paths, car parks, and other areas, posing a slip and fall hazard. Fallen leaves also attract pests and block gutters
The UK is due to for icy weather from the end of this week, with road surface temperatures dropping below zero to as low as -5C in various parts of the country. The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for snow and ice for Scotland, Northern Ireland and parts of northern England