Direct Maintenance Costs

An Economic Sustainability Indicator.

• Brief Description: This identifies all the costs that can be directly allocated to a service: it excludes support costs that are centralised, and which would be apportioned out amongst a range of services.
• Relevance to sustainability: Maintenance costs must be affordable and realistic if a service is to be maintained on a regular and continuous basis. If the direct costs being considered are only those costs for which a manager or organisation has control over, then any other direct costs would need to be identified as a separate sub-category to allow an overall figure to be arrived at.