I share Patrick Cunningham's view. As Matt Stevenson has pointed out,
it is now illegal to re-charge Halon extinguishing systems (31/12/2002)
and all such systems must be de-commissioned by the end of 2003. There
is nothing new in this. It has been illegal in the UK to manufacture
Halon since 1993 and no new Halon based systems should have been
installed since then. Anyone with such a system has known for some time
that they would need to be replaced. The storage company in question
has had 10 years in which to plan the necessary investment and the
capital cost should have been discounted as part of the cost of doing
business and built into its existing charges or amortised into future
charges.
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-----Original Message-----
From: The UK Records Management mailing list
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Patrick
Cunningham
Sent: 10 July 2003 18:27
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Subject: Re: off site storage costs
I'd be interested to know what those regulations are. In the US, the
National Fire Protection Association has been debating new regulations
(NFPA 232) on fire protection for records centers for some time, with
the commercial records centers interests lobbying hard against the
regulations which would force significant changes in some facilities.
My contractual approach with vendors is "talk to me when the contract
renews if you want to change the prices". Our contracts allow for
increases pegged to the inflation rate (which is about nil these days),
but no surcharges for fuel cost increases or facility changes (those
are not explicit because the vendors could have a host of opportunities
for surcharges). Essentially, we pay what we have agreed to pay.
Period. That certainly has not prevented the vendors from attempting to
impose surcharges or price increases across the board. Generally, those
go away when we talk about "material breach" of contract.
Patrick Cunningham, CRM
Corporate Records Manager
Hewitt Associates, LLC
Lincolnshire, IL USA
--- James SNeddon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear Colleagues
> I have recently been informed by my off site storage provider that
> due to EU
> regulations they have to install a new fire suppression system. The
> impact
> of this is an increase in storage costs. Has anyone else been
> informed of
> this by their storage provider?
> regards
> James
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