Dubai – Mubasher: Property developer Omniyat on Sunday announced awarding Transguard Group an AED 14.5 million contract to provide business services to its commercial Business Bay properties portfolio.

The deal includes properties at The Opus, designed by the late Iraqi-British world-renowned architect Dame Zaha Hadid.

The contract further includes mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) maintenance, security, cleaning and soft services, while will be outsourced to Transguard, Omniyat revealed in a statement.

It added that this new deal “is part of a much larger consolidation of Omniyat’s service requirements across the developer’s commercial Business Bay portfolio.”

The complete portfolio entails The Opus, One by Omniyat, Bayswater, and The Binary towers.

“In total, 87 Transguard Facilities Management specialists will be deployed to deliver the contract,” Dubai-based Omniyat noted.

Omniyat and Clarity Owners Association Management LLC jointly took the contract award decision.

Commenting on the selection process, Clarity Owners Association Management LLC’s associate director of property management Lynne Wylie noted that ahead of the completion of Hadid’s The Opus, “we considered which company should be appointed for the facilities management for not just The Opus, but all of the buildings managed by Clarity for Omniyat.”

“We knew it had to be a company that directly provided all services. There are a limited number of companies in the UAE that have the capabilities to manage the prestigious buildings which Omniyat develop. “Transguard have been in the market for a long time, and we trust they have the capabilities to deliver fully integrated facilities management services to the Omniyat buildings,” she highlighted.