Lab and Facility Move Management

Make This Your Easiest Move Yet with Help from Transcat

From across the hall to across the globe, Transcat provides seamless, stress-free, end-to-end laboratory relocations.  Here’s how facility move management from Transcat can help you prepare for, execute, and even resume operations after your next move – all while helping you make this your easiest move yet.  

Streamline Communication. Our project managers serve as your sole point of contact across all teams. 

Reduce Audit Risk. We’ll utilize standardized protocols, calibration, and qualification services, and other add-on services to meet your specific customer requirements.  

Manage, Don’t Move. Our team will oversee the packing of equipment by movers and OEM vendors so you can focus on managing your business. 

We’ll oversee the physical move of laboratory and process equipment from start to finish, including scheduling, safety planning and oversight, vendor procurement and management and an onsite presence to ensure seamless execution.

Trust Transcat to return vacated spaces to their desired end state, from punch list resolution to documentation turnover, contract closeout, and decommissioning.   We also ensure equipment that is moved is calibrated, validated and updated in your CMMS to ensure future calibration and maintenance compliance .

In addition to developing a detailed project plan that includes downtime considerations, our team can:   

• Define regulatory requirements (e.g., GMP, ISO standards)  
• Communicate move details and schedules to internal teams and external stakeholders (e.g., contract manufacturers, vendors)  
• Develop and execute change control / change management to manage risks related to the move  
• Plan equipment decommissioning and revalidation activities (including IQ/OQ/PQ)  

Transcat seamlessly executes critical elements of a lab move, including:   

• Survey equipment, and populate Master Equipment List (MEL) / Master Instrument List (MIL) (calibrated, validated, or in-process)  
• Tag equipment with destination lab information based on lab design documentation to enable move process  
  Identify equipment that will require Original Equipment Manufacturers OEM crating, decommissioning, calibration, and requalification.  
• Determine Sample / critical reagent move requirements (cold storage, repository needs, and packaging / tagging)

When outside vendors are required, our team will develop a scope of work and execute the bid process, engage OEMs for decommissioning, crating, reinstallation, and requalification of specialty equipment, and plan and schedule required services.

When it comes to moving day, Transcat will:  

• Coordinate equipment preparation / packing, loading, storage, and placement in destination space.  
• Ensure safe handling of sensitive equipment   
• Manage transportation logistics and act as on-site management   
• Execute equipment requalification (IQ/OQ/PQ) & recalibration  

From reviewing certification documents to updating CMMS / asset management systems and reviewing and updating service agreements, Transcat simplifies the entire process of documenting your move.

Lab and Facility Move Management services from Transcat can make this your easiest move yet. Contact us today to learn more or submit the form here and our team will connect with you.

Transcat has over 60 years of experience servicing some of America’s largest companies in highly regulated industries. Our experienced teams provide equipment and asset management solutions for high-cost-of-failure environments in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device companies, and other FDA-regulated organizations throughout the US, Canada, Ireland, Europe, and Asia Pacific.