Can GridGuys cover more than one building in a single enquiry?

Yes. Include the number of buildings, their locations and the scope for each. Larger or geographically spread portfolios may be split so each part goes to a contractor able to cover that area properly.

Do you provide the electrical maintenance yourselves?

No. GridGuys is a lead-connect platform. The electrical work, the quotation and the contract are all between you and the contractor we introduce you to.

How should I describe a reactive fault?

Say what has failed, what is affected, when it started and whether anything has already been isolated. Photographs of the board or affected equipment and the site postcode help the contractor judge the response required.

Can enquiries be for work outside normal hours?

Yes. Out-of-hours, weekend and shutdown working are common in FM. State the available windows in your enquiry, because they affect both programme and price.

What information makes a maintenance enquiry easier to price?

Building size and use, the number of distribution boards, whether an asset register exists, the visit frequency you want, any emergency lighting or standby plant, and the last inspection date.

Facilities manager reviewing a tablet beside distribution boards in a commercial plant room

Sector — Facilities Management

Electrical Contractor Enquiries for Facilities Management Teams

Facilities management sits between the building and everyone who uses it. When something electrical fails, the FM is the person the occupier calls, and when a compliance date lands, the FM is the person who has to evidence that the work was done.

GridGuys is a lead-connect platform for commercial electrical work. We do not carry out electrical work ourselves. You describe the site and the requirement once, and we pass the enquiry to an electrical contractor set up for that type of work and that part of the country.

Request a Commercial Quote Common electrical requirements

Who it is for

Who this is for

The way an FM buys electrical work is shaped by contracts, budgets and reporting lines, not just by the technical scope.

In-house facilities managers

Responsible for one building or a small cluster, holding the compliance file and the maintenance budget, and needing works that fit around occupiers.

FM service providers

Delivering hard services under contract and looking for electrical capability to cover self-delivery gaps, geographies or specialist scopes.

Estates and building services teams

Managing engineering assets across a campus or estate, where distribution, standby supplies and testing regimes all need to be coordinated.

Helpdesk and operations managers

Routing reactive tasks and needing a quotable route for work that falls outside the existing contract or the current PPM scope.

Requirements

Electrical requirements FM teams commonly need priced

These requirements sit across day-to-day operation, compliance and improvement work. Each of them has a dedicated page explaining what the work involves.

Planned preventative electrical maintenance

Scheduled inspection, board checks, emergency lighting attendance and a documented visit pattern that lines up with the wider PPM plan.

Electrical maintenance

Fixed wire testing and EICRs

Periodic inspection and testing of the fixed installation, phased by distribution board or floor so that occupancy is disturbed as little as possible, with remedials priced separately.

Commercial EICR testing

Faults, defects and remedial works

Tracing intermittent faults, clearing observations raised on a previous report and closing out actions that the compliance file needs evidence against.

Commercial electricians

Distribution and infrastructure changes

Board replacements, sub-main alterations and switchgear works where the existing arrangement no longer suits how the building is used.

Infrastructure and switchgear

Three-phase supplies for plant

New or altered three-phase circuits for chillers, lifts, kitchen equipment and other plant introduced during the life of the building.

Three-phase installation

Critical power and resilience

UPS and standby generation on sites where an interruption has an operational cost, including routine exercising and testing arrangements.

Critical power, UPS and generators

How the work arises

Planned work and project work are procured differently

FM electrical spend usually splits into a repeating, budgeted line and a set of one-off scopes. It helps to say which you are asking about.

Planned and recurring

Work with a known frequency that has to be scheduled, evidenced and reported. Contractors price this against visit frequency, asset counts and reporting requirements.

Maintenance visit patterns and asset lists
Periodic inspection and testing cycles
Emergency lighting and routine functional checks
Standby plant exercising where installed
Certification and report formats for the compliance file

Project and reactive

One-off scopes triggered by a failure, a change of use, a report observation or a capital plan. These are priced against scope, access and programme.

Remedials arising from an inspection report
Board changes and sub-main alterations
Lighting replacement and control changes
New supplies for plant or tenant equipment
Fault investigation and repair

Scale

Multi-site and contract coordination

Where an FM covers several buildings, the practical difficulty is rarely the electrical work itself — it is coordination, consistency and reporting.

Consistent scope across sites

Setting out one scope description that can be applied to every building makes quotations comparable rather than each site being priced on a different basis.

Site-by-site access rules

Induction requirements, permit systems, escorting and out-of-hours windows differ between buildings and change both cost and programme.

Phasing across a portfolio

Splitting a programme by region or by compliance due date usually produces a more workable schedule than asking for everything at once.

Reporting and document control

Say up front what format certificates, reports and asset data need to be returned in so it lands correctly in your CAFM or compliance system.

The GridGuys process

How GridGuys handles an FM enquiry

GridGuys is the route between your requirement and a contractor. We do not quote, attend site or carry out electrical work.

Request a Commercial Quote Other enquiry routes

01
You describe the buildings, the scope and whether it is planned, reactive or project work.
02
We review the enquiry against location, scale and the type of work described.
03
We pass your details to an electrical contractor whose capabilities suit that requirement.
04
The contractor deals with you directly on survey, pricing, programme and delivery.

Other sectors and services

FM enquiries often overlap with these areas of the site.

Property management

Where the enquiry sits with a managing agent or landlord rather than an occupier-side FM team.

Offices and commercial buildings

Occupied workplace environments where works have to run around desks, meetings and business hours.

Electrical maintenance

What a planned maintenance arrangement typically includes and what to specify when asking for one.

Commercial EICR testing

Fixed wire testing scope, phasing and what a report gives you at the end.

See every service on our commercial electrical services hub, or browse all commercial sectors.

FAQs

Facilities management questions

Send an FM electrical enquiry

Describe the buildings and the scope, and GridGuys will pass it to an electrical contractor suited to facilities work in your area.

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GridGuys connects commercial electrical enquiries with contractors. We do not carry out electrical work ourselves.