Avis UK has secured a high profile, multi-million pound contract with defence, security and aerospace company BAE Systems to provide it with daily rental services over the next three years.

The £20 million contract is being managed by Xchanging Procurement Services (XPS), the company which manages a number of procurement categories within BAE Systems.

Avis has set up and will manage five onsite rental locations for BAE Systems and its group companies, including a large facility at the company’s site in Farnborough. It has also opened three new rental sites at Southampton docks, Leicester and Barrow-in-Furness to service the contract.

To service this element of the contract Avis has teamed up with Ford, which is supplying over 1,600 brand new cars, predominantly Focuses, and a handful of Fiestas and Mondeos. These have been supplied on a phased buy back agreement which sees cars being replaced at an average age of seven months, a key factor in BAE Systems’ service assessment.