Alcumus has been selected by Tesco to provide it with a fully integrated, digital technology platform to aid maintenance of health and safety – iStock
Organisation: Sodexo
Service: Mindful Active
Client: Her Majesty’s Naval Base (HMNB) in Portsmouth
Description: An educational tool to provide holistic health and wellbeing guidance
Detail:
- Developed using Sodexo’s client and customer insights and influenced by the MoD’s data from the UK Armed Forces Continuous Attitudes Survey (UKAFCA) to understand the challenges faced by the military community.
- Designed mainly for physically active personnel, the content is also relevant to partners and civilians who live and work at the base.
- Provides nutritional information, wellbeing signposting, recipes, cooking advice, mental health guidance - made available through a smartphone app.
- Mental health guidance runs from simple tips through to links to professional advice and services, helping users learn how to manage stress and discover relaxation techniques.
Background: Sodexo was awarded the soft services contract for HMNB Portsmouth earlier this year as part of the Ministry of Defence’s Future Maritime Support Programme (FMSP). The £54 million contract runs until March 2026, replacing the previous Maritime Support Delivery Framework (MSDF).
Organisation: Alcumus
Product: IT Platform
Client: Tesco
Description: A platform to maintain health and safety standards and accelerate efficiencies by:
- centralising global risk mapping; and
- bringing together operational and risk management information, processes and workflows.
Organisation: Compass Group UK & Ireland
Announcement: Systemic changes aimed at demonstrating progress on its route map to Climate Net Zero by 2030.
Details:
- Banning air freight of fresh fruit and vegetable produce and a focus on increasing use of local and seasonal products. Compass chefs have been focusing on reworking menus to accommodate these changes.
- Use of free-range eggs (shell and liquid) in the UK and introduction of white eggs into the supply chain. The move exceeds the previous target of committing to cage free eggs by 2025.
- Removal of Marine Conservation Society-rated 4 and 5 seafood from its UK supply chain.
Background: The measures are being led by Compass’s procurement division – Foodbuy. It now has a dedicated sustainability team to review its supply chain and decide how Compass can support suppliers to become more sustainable, with a focus on regenerative agriculture and a switch from animal to plant-based proteins, as well as further enhancing local and seasonal sourcing.
Organisation: Sodexo UK & Ireland
Announcement: Partnership with L Marks
Client: Her Majesty’s Naval Base (HMNB) in Portsmouth
Detail: the service provider is accepting applications from start-ups with inventive solutions to improve the workplace experience. It has teamed up with innovation investor L Marks to launch a global scouting campaign for start-ups to collaborate through its innovation programme, Sodexo Accelerators.
Sodexo is seeking applications across three categories that align with its Vital Spaces value proposition, which focuses on workspace and work-life services:
- Employee experience – personalisation of services through data, developed solutions for manufacturing environments and hybrid workers, and innovations that put the person at the centre of their work-life.
- Sustainability – creating greener and more local supply chains, supporting organisations to meet their Scope 3 carbon emission targets, and helping consumers’ choices through analysis, insights and communication.
- Smart buildings – technology to inform and optimise the internal environment – from air quality to hygiene to energy management – connecting and analysing building assets in real time.
Sodexo is also offering a ‘wildcard’ entry to encourage applications for an unconventional innovation that will impress the judges and gain access to be tested in a real consumer setting.
Start-ups can apply on the company’s website. The platform will close on 3 March 2022 and selected applicants will be invited to a pitch day in early April.Successful applicants will be offered the chance to work with mentors from Sodexo’s subject matter experts and business leaders over a 10-week period to fine-tune their solutions in a live customer environment.
