Contracted / Typical Response Times
Select your current emergency attendance or make-safe response time for each discipline.
Fire Alarm & Life Safety Systems
Passenger Lifts & Vertical Transport
HVAC & Comfort Cooling / Heating
Electrical Distribution & Power Failure
Plumbing & Water Ingress
Security, Access Control & Shutters
Building Fabric & External Glazing
All 7 disciplines align with or outperform typical UK commercial FM Helpdesk SLA benchmarks.
Statutory vs Commercial Distinction: Response bands (e.g. 2–4 hours) reflect standard UK commercial FM Helpdesk contracts rather than direct legal mandates, except where specific standards enforce triggers (such as BS 5839-1 four-hour compensatory fire watches and BS EN 81-28 passenger entrapment rescues).
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FM Contract Pitfalls: Behind the SLA Numbers
When auditing facilities management contracts, published response times rarely tell the whole story. Estate managers must watch for these common contractual loopholes.
The "Attendance" vs. "First-Time Fix" Illusion
Many commercial FM contracts advertise aggressive 2-hour or 4-hour response SLAs. However, standard contract wording defines "Response" solely as engineer arrival to assess and make safe. Without adequate first-fix vehicle stocking or CAFM-led parts triage, critical plant often remains out of service for days waiting for specialist quotations.
Clock-Stopping Loopholes
Helpdesks frequently pause the SLA timer under contractual provisions such as "Awaiting Client Authorisation", "Parts On Order", or "Access Permitted Window Closed". A job logged at 09:00 with a 4-hour SLA may effectively take 72 hours while remaining technically marked as "100% SLA Compliant" in monthly board reports.
Toothless Service Credit Caps
Where service credits exist for SLA breaches, they are commonly capped at 5% to 10% of monthly maintenance fees. In severe disruption cases (such as chillers failing in summer), the cost of the contractor dispatching an emergency specialist out-of-hours exceeds the small contractual credit deduction, disincentivising urgency.
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