NATO HQ - Belgium

The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), is an intergovernmental military alliance between 28 European and 2 North American countries. NATO constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its independent member states agree to mutual defence in response to an attack by any external party.

The Consultancy was appointed initially to carry out a detailed equipment audit of all foodservice areas throughout the NATO headquarters in Brussels. The catering operation onsite had recently been outsourced to a contract caterer who had been handed over all of the kitchen equipment and were tasked with maintaining and keeping the equipment to a high standard. The client was looking for an independent company to attend site make a judgement as to whether this was being achieved as well as forming an assessment on the equipment and its useable life, providing any recommendations for replacement. As part of this project the consultancy also asset tagged and created a record of all assets and asset numbers.

We also detailed a report for the client which provided an insight into a number of factors regarding the heavy catering equipment on site at NATO including a detailed record of the clients assets and provided details of the serviceable life left on each item of the catering equipment and current carbon rating as well as providing equipment replacement advice and a forecast cost of any item that required replacement as well as an insight as to whether we believed the equipment was being maintained and kept in a satisfactory manner by the contract caterer employed by NATO.