Service 02 of 04
Negotiation & Cost Management
Energy, broadband and telecoms, card processing, waste, insurance and stock. We take each one back to the market and argue it out.
Take it back to the market
First we build the register: what you pay, who you pay, when it renews and how much notice you owe. Then we tender. Energy usually goes first because it moves fastest. Every quote comes to you with the terms summarised in plain English, and you sign, not us.
How it runs
How the work runs
Five stages, from the first questionnaire through to the renewal we chase on your behalf.
Discovery
A short questionnaire and one review call. We map what you pay, who you pay, when each contract ends and how much notice you owe.
Review and benchmark
Bills and contracts read line by line for errors, then every rate benchmarked against comparable businesses.
Recommend
One page per cost line: switch, renegotiate or leave alone, with the numbers behind each option.
Switch and implement
We handle the switch with the supplier. You sign the contract; we do the paperwork around it.
Monitor and renew
Renewal dates tracked so nothing rolls onto an out of contract rate, and a quarterly recheck on the lines that move.
What we review
The five costs we look at first
Business energy
Gas and electricity taken to a panel of suppliers, bills checked for errors, renewal dates tracked.
Broadband and telecoms
Lines sized to what your card machines and EPOS actually need.
Card payments
Transaction rates, terminal hire and EPOS software benchmarked against what businesses your size really pay.
Wholesale and stock
Buying group pricing, so the cost of what you sell is negotiated too.
Budget and cash
A live view of fixed costs, stock spend and cash position, so a squeeze is visible weeks before it reaches the till.
We stay out of regulatory and licensing applications, legal drafting, audits, recruitment and procurement admin. When a job needs one of those, we say so.
What you get
What you keep afterwards
The contract register
One page holding every supplier, rate, end date and notice period. Yours to keep whether we carry on or not.
A renewal calendar
Dates diarised with the deadline to act, so nothing rolls over onto an out of contract rate.
A quarterly recheck
We re-run the market on the lines that move, and tell you when it is not worth switching.
Send twelve months of bills.
We will tell you what we think is recoverable before you commit to anything.