Oander are delighted to announce that we have been successful in the recent Student Loan Professional Services Framework, specifically appointed as the sole provider to Lot 4 – Property Consultancy Services.
The framework is a two-year appointment with the option for a 12 month extension and is designed to provide both strategic and operational support to the Student Loan Company (SLC).
Who are the Student Loan Company?
The SLC are a non-profit making Government owned organised set up in 1989 to provide loans and grants to students in Universities and Colleges across the UK.
They play a central role in supporting Higher Education (HE) and Further Education (FE) sectors by making timely and accurate payments of maintenance grants and loans to learners along with tuition fee loans to HE and FE providers.
The SLC have approx. 3,800 employees located across five key locations spanning the entire length and breadth of the United Kingdom with offices in Scotland, Wales and England.
You can read more about the Student Loan Company by clicking here to visit their website.
How Oander will Support the Student Loan Company?
Operating throughout the United Kingdom, we are able to provide, share, guide and inform the SLC, utilising our team’s extensive property knowledge, whether it be advising on current market rates for office accommodation, potential lease terms through to dilapidations and accommodation utilisation.
We are also able to combine our extensive public sector property knowledge to add further value and support with business case development, funding structures and applications such as the Community Levi Infrastructure (CIL) and other strategic developments and advisory services.
Utilising our other in-house skill sets including Quantity Surveying / Construction Project Management we can advise on the practicalities and buildability of a project, and maintain our key mantra of being our clients Trusted Advisers and Critical Friend.
If you are a Public Sector Organisation with a property portfolio, big or small and would like to talk to us about how we can help, please click here to speak with our Ben Davies.