The ACCC has commenced federal court proceedings against contractors Ventia and Spotless Facility Services, and four executives, over price fixing in defence services.
The ACCC has raised concerns with the prospective merger of two of Australia's largest laundry businesses, arguing it may substantially reduce competition across the sector.
Downer expects to report a full-year statutory net loss of $150 million-$160 million after recognising charges worth $386 million on account of goodwill impairment, restructuring and portfolio review costs.
The biggest player in Australia's litigation funding market has supported new licensing rules proposed by the federal government while also pushing for the new requirements to be extended to law firms.
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.
SPECIAL REPORT: Data from the annual BNiQ Search Engine biggest employers list suggests an economic recovery is under way as mining and civil contractors boost their workforce numbers.
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.
AMP Capital has bought the newly built Eastern Goldfields regional prison, joining the likes of Catholic Super, Australian Super and Aberdeen Asset Management as private owners of public infrastructure assets in Western Australia. Click through to see the BNiQ listing of public assets in private hands.
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.
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.
The state government is facing a period of tough negotiations with Perth's AFL clubs over access to the new Perth Stadium after rejecting a bid by the WA Football Commission to be involved in running the venue.
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.
A consortium including Programmed Maintenance Services has been named the preferred bidder for the ACT's $150 million Law Courts Public Private Partnership, while the state government has signed a contract for Western Australia's first schools PPP.
Fremantle Dockers and West Coast Eagles fans will be heavily invested in the on-field action at the two preliminary finals in Perth tonight and tomorrow, but the operator of the ageing Domain stadium is counting on an even bigger bet coming off.
The government today announced EduWest, a consortium of Macquarie Capital, Badge Constructions, Perkins Builders and Spotless Facility Services, as its preferred tenderer for its eight-school public private partnership (PPP).
The state government has announced plans for the private sector to design, build, finance and maintain eight new public schools, using a contracting model that has previously been employed in four other states.
A consortium led by international investment groups Brookfield Financial and John Laing has been named as preferred proponent to build Perth's new sporting stadium at an estimated cost of about $900 million.
SPECIAL REPORT: The state's major builders appear unfazed to be operating in what's considered among Western Australia's most competitive and closely monitored business sectors.
SPECIAL REPORT: More national and international conventions are choosing to come to Perth, adding a boost to tourism and industry and catalysing a big change at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre.
The Barnett government is living up to its promise to deliver more community infrastructure via public private partnerships, naming three short-listed consortiums to bid for a 350-bed prison develo
Acquisitive national facilities manager Spotless Group has completed the acquisition of the business assets of Riley Shelley, a company founded through a joint venture of a Perth and Brisbane-based painting businesses.
Spotless Group Ltd expects to despatch a bidder's statement tommorow, and formally present its takeover offer to Programmed Maintenance Services Ltd shareholders.
Property and maintenance services company Spotless Group Ltd has made a hostile $556 million bid for Programmed Maintenance Services Ltd, one year after PMS bought Perth-based Integrated Group Ltd.
