Opportunity · sourced from companies_house + manual
Northgate Facilities Services Ltd
Commercial facilities management, Watford. Contracted cleaning, M&E maintenance and grounds work for regional commercial landlords.
Asking price
£1,850,000
Broker provided
Platform equity value
£1,597,680
Platform calculation
Maximum recommended
£1,740,000
Bound by the 1.5× DSCR floor
Quality score
Recommendation: attractive only below £1,740,000. The asking price sits 15.8% above the platform base equity value, and at that price year-one debt service cover falls to 1.37×, below the 1.5× floor. The model was not adjusted to reach it.
Next best action: request management accounts for the current year to date, and confirm the owner's operational duties in writing before any offer is framed.
Section 5.3
Companies House entity match
Match confidence 87 / 100
Above the confidence floor of 70. Entity attached.
- Legal name
- Northgate Facilities Services Limited
- Trading name
- Northgate FM
- Company number
- 09912345 Verified
- Status
- Active
- Incorporated
- 14 March 2016
- Registered office
- Watford, Hertfordshire WD17
- SIC codes
- 81210 · 81300 · 43220
- Directors
- 2 active, longest serving since incorporation
- PSCs
- 1, holding 75% or more of shares
- Filing history
- Accounts filed on time in each of the last 6 years
- Charges
- 1 outstanding, registered 2021, asset finance
- Accounts filed
- Abridged to 31 March 2025, small company exemption
Personal data on directors and PSCs is processed on a documented lawful basis, minimised to what the match needs, and never exported beyond the platform.
Stored, not just scored
Match evidence
| Evidence | Weight | Score | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Name similarity | 25 | 24 | "Northgate Facilities Services" against the registered name, token-set ratio 0.96 |
| Sector alignment | 20 | 20 | Listing sector maps to SIC 81210 |
| Location alignment | 15 | 14 | Listing says Watford, registered office WD17 |
| Turnover band | 15 | 12 | Listing £4.1m, filed turnover £4,120,000 |
| Incorporation plausibility | 10 | 9 | Listing claims "trading 10 years", incorporated 2016 |
| Director corroboration | 15 | 8 | Broker names a managing director first name only. Partial match. |
| Total | 100 | 87 |
Below the configurable floor of 70 the entity is not attached at all. The opportunity flags for operator review instead. Where the seller is confidential and no defensible match exists, the record reads SELLER IDENTITY WITHHELD PENDING NDA / BUYER QUALIFICATION. The platform never guesses a company identity.
Listing detail
- Source
- Operator manual entry, 18 Aug 2026 Broker provided
- Listing age
- 34 days
- Asking price
- £1,850,000 Broker
- Reason for sale
- Owner retirement, stated Seller
- Employees
- 61 (48 operational, 13 office) Seller
- Premises
- Leased depot, 6 years remaining, break at year 3 Seller
- Online or physical
- Physical
- Geography score modifier
- +3 (commutable from London)
Open information gaps
Gaps render as gaps. No section of the report fills one with plausible prose.
Actions
Contacting the broker routes through the approval gate. In Phase 1 the gate exists and refuses, because no outbound channel is wired.
AcquiScope produces analysis and modelling, not regulated investment advice. Figures require independent verification and professional due diligence before any offer. Northgate Facilities Services Ltd is an invented business used to demonstrate the prototype. The company number shown is not a real registration.