The Netherlands: Facility Management in Dutch Municipalities

Authors

• Andreas F. van Wagenberg

Abstract

Due to some developments in the law, pressure to outsource activities in municipalities in the Netherlands is increasing. For some activities outsourcing already is usual, for example for the renovation of buildings and cleaning. The trend in Dutch municipalities is to outsource activities as single services. To prevent labour unrest and restrained relations with labour unions this is done gradually. According to this, in Finland facility activities can also gradually be outsourced, if there is consensus about the vision in management of the municipality. This strategic vision about facility management should aim at strengthening the professional capacity to steer facility production processes (FM-function) and using commercial partners to supply facility products and services. In the paper different aspects of outsourcing are discussed.