November 1, 2002—The Canada Department of National Defense Maritime Forces Atlantic (MARLANT) has selected VFA.facility—the facility management and capital planning software produced by VFA Inc.—to identify its building needs, deferred maintenance, and related costs accurately and in a time-efficient manner. The decision is part of MARLANT’s goal to standardize building condition information. VFA’s software solution will provide MARLANT with cost estimates for building repairs and a rigorous estimating capability that eliminates bias from the analysis and assessment processes.
VFA.facility will enable MARLANT officials to make more informed funding and capital allocation decisions in support of the organization’s infrastructure and facilities, which are dispersed across more than forty sites. Previously, the information collected during facility condition assessments was maintained in a paper-based format. The defense organization needed access to current facility requirements, as well as a consistent process for determining estimates for repairs and their associated costs. With VFA.facility, MARLANT officials can manage large amounts of building condition and deferred maintenance information in a central, readily available database.
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