The goal of a procurement process is find the bidder who is best equipped to provide the services that a client requires over a specific period of time, at a price that is acceptable to the customer, and on the most favorable commercial and legal conditions for both parties. However procurement of facility management is the purchase of the process by which an organization provides and maintains non-core activities in a high-quality environment that strongly supports the business's key objectives. In order to success procurement process in long term, firstly should identified client requirements and then looking for details about the property portfolio and facilities services. After that considering a target price range for the services that the client is willing to pay, as well as looking for quality levels of the service. Finally prepare a realistic schedule for completing the process.
In addition to that following factors are the mandatory requirements of the procurement process.
• Clearly state, detailed scope of the services, defining what is and is not included.
• Define clear objectives for the procurement project.
• Develop evaluation criteria that reflect your objectives.
• Prepare clear pricing structure defining what services and costs are included and what is excluded.
• State timescales for the procurement process.
• Provide a clear payment mechanism.
• Comply with relevant data protection rules
However there are two major options are available in procurement of the facility management process. Those are In-house facility management and out-sourced facility management. As well as those categorization is based on the control of the process of facility management and the ownership of the assets. In-house facility management is conducting activities or operation within an organization instead of relying on another company. In here no any intermediate party will be engaged between the organization and the service providers. As well as organization has the autonomy to take decision and control the process. When considering about the out-sourced facility management, it mean passing the responsible of facilities manage services to a third party or involve of an external party to the management role of the facilities. However in current situation most of the organizations are choosing out-sourced facility management process.