Conveniently situated just off the M8, between Glasgow and Edinburgh, our Bathgate site services all major locations within Scotland..

Services offered at this location:

• Media Management – secure off-site media storage/archiving, media transportation, media destruction, media degaussing & online media tracking
• Document Management – secure off-site document storage/archiving, document retrieval & transportation, document scanning, document destruction & online document tracking
• Secure Courier– secure courier services, secure document & media transportation
• SWITCH – secure, confidential backup media swap/exchange & transportation service

Areas covered by this site:

• Cities: Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee, Inverness, Stirling
• Counties: Scotland – East Lothian, West Lothian, Midlothian, Fife, North Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire, East Dunbartonshire, West Dunbartonshire, Inverclyde, Renfrewshire, Scottish Borders, East Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, Perth & Kinross, Dumfries & Galloway

Our Wakefield facility complements our Heywood site, and is home to over 1,5 million individual files. Located just north of Leeds on the M62, this purpose-built site provides over 400,000 cubic feet of secure document storage space.

Services offered at this location:

• Document Management – secure off-site document storage/archiving, document retrieval & transportation, document scanning, document destruction & online document tracking
• Secure Courier – secure courier services, secure document & media transportation

Areas covered by this site:

• Cities: Leeds, Bradford, Halifax, Huddersfield, Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster, Scunthorpe, Grimsby, Hull, York, Harrogate
• Counties: West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, Humberside

Adjacent to the M60 just north of Manchester, our Heywood storage facility is also our main operation centre. Along with 1,000,000 cubic feet of document storage space, the Heywood site is home to our main environment-controlled Media Storage Centre in the North of England.

Services offered at this location:

• Media Management – secure off-site media storage/archiving, media transportation, media destruction, media degaussing & online media tracking
• Document Management – secure off-site document storage/archiving, document retrieval & transportation, document scanning, document destruction & online document tracking
• Secure Courier – secure courier services, secure document & media transportation
• Media & Consumables – backup media & equipment
• SWITCH – secure, confidential backup media swap/exchange & transportation service

Areas covered by this site:

• Cities: Manchester, Liverpool, Preston, Blackpool, St Helens, Blackburn, Southport, Bolton, Burnley, Oldham, Bury, Warrington, Ellesmere Port, Chester, Macclesfield, Stoke on Trent, Chesterfield, Mansfield, Derby, Nottingham, Lincoln
• Counties: Lancashire, West Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire

Close to the M6 Toll, M42, A38 & A5 and with Birmingham city centre just 20 miles to the south, our new Lichfield facility is ideally located for convenient access to all major business centres in the Midlands.

Services offered at this location:

• Media Management – secure off-site media storage/archiving, media transportation, media destruction, media degaussing & online media tracking
• Document Management – secure off-site document storage/archiving, document retrieval & transportation, document scanning, document destruction & online document tracking
• Secure Courier – secure courier services, secure document & media transportation
• SWITCH – secure, confidential backup media swap/exchange & transportation service

Areas covered by this site:

• Cities: Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Dudley, Tamworth, Leicester, Peterborough, Northampton, Milton Keynes, Bedford, Coventry, Cannock, Telford, Cardiff, Swansea, Newport
• Counties: West Midlands, East Midlands, Shropshire, Wales

Our South-Western facility based just outside Chippenham near to the M4, combines all our usual services and houses our main document scanning Bureau.

Services offered at this location:

• Media Management – secure off-site media storage/archiving, media transportation, media destruction, media degaussing & online media tracking
• Scanning Services – confidential bureau scanning, document scanning, microfilm conversion, digital mailroom
• Secure Courier – secure courier services, secure document & media transportation
• SWITCH – secure, confidential backup media swap/exchange & transportation service

Areas covered by this site:

• Cities: Bristol, Bath, Cardiff, Exeter, Plymouth, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Swindon, Swansea
• Counties: Avon, Somerset, Devon, Cornwall, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, South Wales

Located within one of the principal industrial/office locations in Bracknell, and serving West London and the South West, our new Southern facility has excellent links with the M3 and M4, and the M25, just 13 miles away.

Services offered at this location:

• Media Management – secure off-site media storage/archiving, media transportation, media destruction, media degaussing & online media tracking
• Document Management – secure off-site document storage/archiving, document retrieval & transportation, document scanning, document destruction & online document tracking
• Secure Courier – secure courier services, secure document & media transportation
• SWITCH – secure, confidential backup media swap/exchange & transportation service

Areas covered by this site:

• Cities: Reading, Basingstoke, Southampton, Portsmouth, Brighton & Hove, High Wycombe, Oxford, Slough, Salisbury, Bournemouth, Winchester, Marlow, Eastleigh, Camberley, Farnborough, Wokingham, Bristol, Bath, Exeter, Plymouth, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Swindon
• Counties: Berkshire, Hertfordshire, Hampshire, Dorset, Avon, Somerset, Devon, Cornwall, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire

Our new Basildon site is located 8 miles east of the M25, between the A127 and A13. Specifically equipped for the correct environmental storage of media, this site is ideal for clients located both in the City of London and in the South East of England.

Services offered at this location:

• Media Management – secure off-site media storage/archiving, media transportation, media destruction, media degaussing & online media tracking
• Document Management – secure off-site document storage/archiving, document retrieval & transportation, document scanning, document destruction & online document tracking
• Secure Courier – secure courier services, secure document & media transportation
• SWITCH – secure, confidential backup media swap/exchange & transportation service

Areas covered by this site:

• Cities: City of London, East London, Croydon, Crawley, Brighton, Gillingham, Southend, Canterbury, Ashford, Dover, Norwich, Ipswich, Chelmsford, Colchester, Harlow, Cambridge, Watford
• Counties: Middlesex, Surrey, East Sussex, West Sussex, Kent, Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk

DRS understands the vital importance of correct document storage. In fact, we’ve built an excellent reputation for our high levels of security and confidentiality, coupled with our combination of traditional document storage and retrieval, and digital innovation. We cover the country with our network of storage sites, and many years of experience have helped us develop a portfolio of services to suit all sectors, from Central Government and the NHS to Local Government and the private sector.

Document Storage

• Highly secure environmentally controlled warehouses, racked to British Standards and protected by CCTV, alarms and smoke detectors
• Bar-code driven storage management to box and document levels
• Document On-line System for stock management and instant reporting
• End to end bar-code tracking on all material
• National coverage of all parts of the UK

Document Retrievals

• A fleet of over 60 secure and unmarked vans fitted with satellite tracking
• Traditional retrievals for whole boxes or individual documents
• Next day and same day emergency retrievals 24/7
• Hand held scanner technology used for end-to-end tracking
• ‘Scan on Demand’ for secure image retrievals from every DRS store
• Same day cataloguing and ‘put away’ quality pledge
• DRS-employed drivers all are security cleared

Document Scanning

Bureau scanning for back-scanning and ongoing projects

• ‘Scan on Demand’ for same day or next day retrievals
• ‘Digital Mailroom’ service for clients’ post
• Images transferred to the DRS Document On-line System entry for access over secure connections, uploaded to client websites or provided on other media such as CD / DVD
• Digital documents stored for 28 days on our secure servers or held permanently on clients’ own dedicated space

Document Destruction

• Secure, on-site and UKSSA-approved using multi-cut
• Quality driven and environmentally controlled process with recycling
• Certificate of Destruction with inventory audit trail
• On-line retention management

Document On-line

“The online system is a powerful tool, yet so simple to use. For the first time we have total control of our off-site documents. ”

• Highly secure Document On-line System provides client access for service requests and stock management
• Full reference and description information with dates and current status
• Dynamic client update facility for certain fields, i.e. action/destruction date
• A range of management reports available to clients, from requests to inventories

Document Management Locations

• Basildon, Essex
• Bracknell, Berkshire
• Bristol, Avon
• Dudley, West Midlands
• Heywood, Manchester
• Wakefield, West Yorkshire
• Bathgate, Scotland

It’s simple

We take away all the logistic and management issues associated with running your own data store by supplying and managing a complete nationwide off-site storage solution.

We guarantee that your media and documents will be safe; that they will be accurately catalogued; that you will have real control over your stored items through our online system; that all requested items will be sent where they are required; that we will collect and deliver when we say we will.

And that you will receive unrivalled service, all the time.

You’ll notice that nowhere on this website do we provide our address. Nor do we give location maps. Google our postcode – and you get a post office. There’s a good reason for this anonymous approach.

Your security.

Of course, when we begin to work together you’ll be invited to tour our state-of-the-art secure storage facilities. And when you do, the first thing you’ll notice is that our secure media and document storage depots are unmarked. No logos, no signs, nothing to indicate who we are or what we do. And the same goes for the delivery vehicles in our secure courier fleet, and our employees.

But that’s not to say we skimp on other security measures.

Quite the reverse. Here’s the spec:

• all secure media and document storage premises have extensive security features which are externally audited & approved
• all processes are in accordance with iso 27001: information security standard
• all drs staff are security cleared & bound by a non-disclosure agreement
• internal and external cctv including fixed, zoom and dome cameras linked via adsl to a dedicated 24 x 7 x 365 monitoring service
• pac and biometric access controls
• redwall intruder detection
• vesda fire detection systems linked via adsl to a dedicated 24 x 7 x 365 monitoring service

All the technology we need to protect you.