In autumn 2002 a working group across the both leading facilities management organizations GEFMA and IFMA (now: RealFM) established the first time to develop a Facility Services Contract and a Standard Directory of Facility Services (Standard Facility Services Specifications). The original version 1.1 of these documents were issued by GEFMA and IFMA in November 2004, since then nearly 1,500 copies each could be disposed.

Both documents have been enhanced continuously in the past years by the association representatives. The recent versions 3.0 of these Standard Deliverables Facility Services were completely revised, adapted to current market trends and published in autumn 2015. Moreover an English version of the Standard Facility Services Specifications 3.0 was created and will be published shortly.

The author Wolfgang Inderwies was the initiator and founding member of the cross-association working group. Moreover, he was responsible for the final editing of both the German and the English Standard Facility Services Specifications.

In his presentation, Wolfgang Inderwies first presents the main innovations of these documents in version 3.0. These are, for example, definitions of cost-relevant terms (such as repair and maintenance), maintenance strategies, documentation requirements in facilities management or contractual arrangements for the implementation of CAFM software. Moreover he discusses issues that require a special adaption in Facility Services Contract and Standard Directory of Facility Services, e.g. the system of a price list.