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Utility Cost
Recovery
Utility Cost Recovery is the systematic
review of utility/telecommunications costs designed to correct and
eliminate errors in tariff applications, physical inventories, rates,
taxes and surcharges.
Our expense
audit services
concentrate on obtaining vendor refunds due to billing errors and
recommending actions that will reduce costs on an on-going basis. Cost
reduction recommendations include ideas for optimizing existing vendor
services, particularly those under contract, and determining
opportunities for improvement through new vendors, especially in
"niche" areas. Our approach is to evaluate all areas of your company's
voice and data communications expenditures. We save clients time,
money, confusion and aggravation in collecting and analyzing
information, evaluating alternatives, implementing decisions and
working with vendors over time.
We collect and analyze information from a variety of
sources including bills, contracts, vendor site and service records,
client order and accounting information, vendor tariffs and quoted
pricing, PBX and call accounting reports, and more. We strive to
document existing services and unnecessary services. We assess multiple
alternatives relative to your situation and requirements, and against
our internal benchmarks. We offer implementation and on-going support.
Our approach is comprehensive and detail oriented. We
stand behind our work with a Satisfaction Guarantee.
The work we do involves minimal client staff time, so the return on
investment is even greater.
What We Can Do For You
On average we save our clients between 10% and 20% on their utility
costs (though savings have exceeded 30% for some clients) by
implementing procedures such as:
- Switching
to a more appropriate utility supplier or tariff.
- Tracking
down errors in utility bills.
- Implementing
more cost effective methods of installing utilities.
- Reconfiguring
systems.
- Implementing
more efficient equipment maintenance.
- Re-negotiating
contracts.
- Tracing
losses.
- Monitoring
energy and call profiles.
- Advising
on service and equipment purchases.
The
growing variety of services and of companies who provide them, along
with the continuing deregulation of telecommunications pricing has
dramatically increased the likelihood of incorrect billing. When
telecommunications service providers merge and attempt to consolidate
incompatible billing systems, instances of billing errors escalate.
A Telecommunications Bill Audit validates the accuracy
of your bills to ensure that:
- The rates
you’re being charged comply with the contracts you’ve signed with your
service providers.
- The rates
comply with applicable telecommunications tariffs.
- All discounts and credits to which you are
entitled have been correctly applied.
Our
services include a complete analysis of the following utility bills
- Electric
- Telecommunications
- Water
- Sewer
- Natural
gas
We begin by first reviewing your utility bills
searching for improper
rates, rate options, billing errors, metering errors, metering options,
and overlooked tax benefits.
After a thorough investigation and on-site inspection of the facility
and its metering equipment if warranted, we submit our findings to you
for review and approval.
We then negotiate with the utility companies for applicable rate
options and to recover any error refunds on a shared savings basis. We
apply extra effort to ensure our clients qualify for the best possible
rates.
For a better idea of how we can reduce your utilities costs contact us.
GRPS is dedicated to providing best-in-class solutions
for all of your telecommunications needs. In addition to supporting
traditional telephony and convergence solutions that allow your
business to take advantage of emerging technologies and applications,
GRPS offers "Telecommunications Auditing Services". Telecommunications
Auditing ensures that your business is receiving the right
communication services required for your operations, the best possible
pricing for those services - Local, Long Distance, Toll Free, Cellular
and Paging - and that you are being billed only for the services that
you require.
Telecommunications
Auditing involves a "Three Step Process"
1. Data Collection
- Inventory all Telecommunications Circuits
& Services
- Collect 3 Months of Telecommunications Bills
- Perform Interviews with designated Internal
Customers
- Assemble Utilization Reports
- Conduct Information Meetings with Service
Providers
2. Analysis
- Review Telecommunications Inventories
- Examine Utilization Reports
- Analyze Telecommunications Bills
3. Recommendations
- Discussions with Client on Proposed Changes
and/or Necessary Required Improvements that will Reduce Costs and/or
Improve Services
- Assist Client with Implementations with GRPS
Expertise in Voice, Data and Cabling Solutions
GRPS understands that in order for businesses to stay
profitable and competitive that they need to manage costs closely. By
offering services such as Telecommunications Auditing, GRPS ensures
that your communication services align with your business initiatives.
We take the time to understand our customers business, look for places
to save them money and consult with them on areas within their business
where potential cost savings can be reinvested back into their company
to drive further revenue. Please ask us about some of the companies
that have realized substantial cost savings with Telecommunications
Auditing.
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