标准2025BSI（英国标准协会）出版了BS 8572:2018设施采购相关服务.行业准则。修订后的标准通过成功采购的路线图指导负责管理设施的人员 – 如高级管理人员，业主占用人、业主和租户。
制定BS 8572标准是为了确定通用的、标准化的方法，以用于管理和阐明设备服务。设备相关服务是指为机构的核心业务提供各种支持，例如清洁、安保、废物处理、害虫防治、建筑维修、餐饮与信息技术。
修订后的标准包括提高竞争性招标的透明度的指导，以及如何全面评估招标提案。该标准同时也为基准绩效与成本提供指导，使低效率和浪费得到强调和缓解。在涉及多种设备或地点的组织中，将BS 8572标准运用于所有设备，就可以通过更为一致、精简的采购方法带
来更多好处。
BS 8572标准既涵盖新设备，也涵盖已有的设备。相比于之前的标准，修订后的标准包含以下主要变化：
a.) 就采购者的目标运营模式与整合模式作出新的规定；
b.) 对服务直接成本的管理进行了建议整合；
c.)关于管理服务提供创新和服务转型的建议;
d.) 将指导性文件改为规程；
e.) 在总体上作出了更新，从而与设备管理领域最新出版的标准相一致，与其进行相互借鉴。
BSI建筑环境部负责人安特.伯德（Ant Burd）说：“一个组织向外部采购设备相关服务，也就是决定外包。然而，将这些重要服务的采购外包，并不仅仅只是简单的采购与供应。在组织的设备管理中，设备采购是一个主要且必不可少的部分，正因如此，必须以一种一致
的、周密的、能确保最大收益的方法进行设备采购。对BS 8572标准进行修订，就是为了在这一过程中，给组织提供指导。”
对于负责设备相关服务采购以及在商业、工业建筑中负责空间管理的组织而言，BS 8572标准十分重要。设备相关服务采购应被视为采购者组织的独特作用，正因如此，该标准建议，应由指定的人员来承担此任务。这也许能成为组织已制定的采购与供应过程中的一部分。
以下组织作为推进小组的成员参与了该项标准的制定：英国皇家特许建造学会（CIOB）、英国皇家建筑师学会（RIBA）、英国皇家特许测量师学会（RICS）、英国皇家注册设备工程师协会（CIBSE）、英国设施管理协会（BIFM）、国际设施管理协会（IFMA）以及国际
跨国企业房地产经理人协会（CoreNet）。在英国，这些组织的总会员数超过25万。
British standard for procurement of facilities services revised
BSI, the business standards company, has published BS 8572:2018Procurement of facility related services. Code of practice. The revised standard guides those responsible for the management of facilities – such as officer managers, owner-occupiers, landlords and tenants – through a roadmap for successful procurement.
BS 8572 was developed to establish a common, standardized approach to the way facilities services are managed and specified. A facility-related service is a supporting structure to the core business of an organization, such as cleaning, security, waste disposal, pest control, building maintenance, catering and IT.
The revised standard includes guidance to improve transparency in operating competitive tendering, and how to thoroughly evaluate tendering proposals. Guidance is also provided on benchmarking performance and cost, enabling inefficiencies and waste to be highlighted and mitigated. Where multiple facilities or locations are involved, application of BS 8572 across all facilities can bring additional benefits from a more consistent, streamlined approach to procurement.
BS 8572 covers both new and existing facilities. The principle changes in this revised document over its predecessor are:
a.) New provisions relating to a procurer’s target operating model and integrator model;
b.) Incorporation of recommendations on the management of the direct cost of a service;
c.) Recommendations on managing innovation and transformation in service delivery;
d.) Conversion from a guidance document to a code of practice; and
e.) General updating to align with, and cross-reference, recently published standards in facilities management.
Ant Burd, Head of Built Environment at BSI, said: “In procuring facility-related services externally, an organization has taken the decision to outsource. Outsourcing the procurement of such important services, however, extends beyond simply purchasing and supplying. Facilities procurement represents a major and integral part of an organization’s facilities management – and because of this it must be carried out in a way that is consistent, thorough, and ensures the best value for money. BS 8572 was revised to guide organizations through this process.”
BS 8572 is relevant to all organizations with responsibility for the procurement of facility-related services and the management of space within commercial and industrial property. Procurement of facility-related services should be regarded as a distinct function within the procurer’s organization and, as such, the standard recommends that it should be covered by a designated role. This may form part of the organization’s established purchasing and supply processes and procedures.
The following organizations were involved in the development of this standard as members of the steering group: CIOB; RIBA; RICS; CIBSE; BIFM; IFMA; and CoreNet. Combined membership of these bodies in the UK exceeds 250,000.