Oil and gas company Santos has awarded Sodexo a five-year contract to service its operations across the country, including on Varanus Island off the Pilbara coast.
Sodexo Australia has secured two contracts worth $170 million to provide its accommodation, housekeeping and catering services at sites across Western Australia.
Mandurah's largest general hospital will receive $152 million of upgrades as the facility is returned to state government ownership over the next three years.
The shutdown of Shell's Prelude FLNG since February and planned phased shutdowns at Chevron's Gorgon could hit LNG exports by about $2 billion this year.
The growing global appetite for state involvement in industry, as evidenced by two recent decisions of Boris Johnson's new government in the UK, is also taking hold in Australia.
The state government plans to halt three major contracts at Fiona Stanley Hospital held by Serco Australia, resulting in 650 jobs moving back to the public sector at a cost of $93 million over 10 years.This adds to similar moves in the water and corrections portfolios.
The renewal of four major contracts with Fortescue Metals Group and Rio Tinto has maintained Sodexo's status as the largest operator in the state's facilities management sector.
Contractor Sodexo will exit a loss-making contract running Melaleuca female prison in April, about four years after the facility opened, following a December agreement for the government to take over operations.
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Sodexo Australia, one of WA's largest employers, announced a partnership with The Clontarf Foundation this morning as part of its Elevate Reconciliation Action Plan.
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Veterans' recruitment organisation Working Spirits is steadily increasing its profile among the Western Australian businesses community, with 10 former veterans recently finding placements, including with mining services business Macmahon Holdings.
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Sodexo's acquisition of Morris Corporation has pushed it up the ranking of big facilities management companies in Western Australia at a time when its competitors have been battling with the slowdown in large projects in the Pilbara.
AWB Building Co principal Graeme Kennedy cites the introduction of the National Disability Insurance Scheme as the key driver of his decision to set up his business three years ago.
Global facilities management giant Sodexo, which counts Rio Tinto's iron ore business among its major clients, is buying Australian competitor Morris Corporation, the manager of Fortescue Metals Group's three major camps.
The McGowan government has announced the Wandoo minimum security prison will be returned to the public sector, despite an independent review this year finding private contractor Serco had met or exceeded expectations.
Corrective Services Minister Fran Logan says he has put private prison operator Sodexo on notice over repeated contract breaches, and claims the Melaleuca women's jail is so poorly run that lawyers visiting inmates feel unsafe there.
The global company that runs many of WA's mine camps believes a technology platform developed with local ICT firm Velrada provides a blueprint for its international operations.
Spotless Group has secured a long-term extension to its management contract at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre after committing to invest $50 million and take full responsibility for the PCEC's core assets.
Perth-based IT firm Velrada has announced a $10 million contract to support the expanding Pilbara operations of global facilities management company Sodexo.
The state government has selected Sodexo as preferred operator of its new women's prison, adding to a string of big contract wins in Western Australia by the global facilities management company.
Mine camp operators Compass Group and Sodexo, and an Adelaide-based print business that supplies Fortescue Metals Group were among the winners in the 2016 Supply Nation supplier diversity awards.
Mining camp operator Sodexo has pledged to create 400 new jobs for indigenous Australians after becoming the latest company to join the federal government's employment parity initiative.
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Swiss multinational ABB Group has won a five-year contract to provide equipment and services for Shell's Prelude floating LNG project, which will operate in the Browse Basin off the Kimberley coast.
French company Sodexo is set to become one of the biggest service providers in the Pilbara after signing a $2.5 billion contract to manage all of Rio Tinto's mine camps and other facilities for 10 years.
Sodexo has been shortlisted with two other companies to manage all of Rio Tinto's camps and other facilities in the Pilbara, in the same week it has been awarded a contract to run Shell's Prelude Floating LNG facility.
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Woodside Petroleum and facilities management company Sodexo have been recognised at the Department of Mines and Petroleum's Golden Gecko awards for environmental excellence.
