Learn more about reducing equipment maintenance costs for colleges, universities and research institutions.

1. SAMPLE ELIGIBLE VENDORS
FOR THE CONSULTATIVE STUDY STRATEGIC
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Affymetrix
Agilent Technologies
Alert Scientific Inc.
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Microcom
Millipore Corporation
Micromass, Inc.
SOURCING SOLUTIONS
o Amersham Pharmacia Biotec o Molecular Devices A Division of Insurance Strategies, Inc.
o Applied Biosystems o Nicolet Instrument Corporation
SAVE
o Baseline Service, Inc. o Olympus America Inc.
o Bayer Corporation Diagnostic o Packard Instrument
o BD Biosciences o Perkin Elmer
o Beckman Coulter, Inc. o Personal Chemistry
o Beckton Dickinson o Pharmacia Biotech
IMPROVE
o Biacore Inc. o Polymer Laboratories
o Bio-Tek Instruments o Powerware
o Brinkmann Instruments Services, Inc. o Qiagen, Inc.
o Bruker o Roche Diagnostics
CONTROL
o Carl Zeiss, Inc. o Savant Instruments, Inc.
o Cellomics, Inc. o Scientific Apparatus Services, Inc.
o Cybio UK Ltd. o Shimadzu, Inc.
o Dionex Corporation o TA Instruments, Inc.
o Dolbey-Jamison o Tecan
o FEI Company o Teledyne
o General Electric (GE) o Thermo Finnigan Budgets
o Genevac o Thermo Fisher EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE are
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HI Scientific Services
Illumina
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Thermo Forma
Titertek Instruments
EXPENSE REDUCTION 2010 2011 2012
o Ironi o Tomtec, Inc. Guaranteed savings of up to 30% Expenses
o Kendro o Varian
o Leap Technologies o Wallac, Inc.
over existing maintenance contracts are
Up
2010 2011 2012
o Leica o Waters Corporation
o Mettler-Toledo o ZEF Scientific, Inc.
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2. THE PROBLEM: It’s a Challenging Budget Environment IMPROVE: The Consultative Study Identifies Your Savings Potential
• Competition is fierce for research funds. The Study is an integral step on the road to identifying your current expenditures and savings
• Budgets are decreasing or flat. potential critical to improving your maintenance expense budget. The benefits to the Study include:
• Expenses keep rising.
• Resources are limited. • Requires very little time on your part.
• Will identify your current service agreement expenses by vendor.
THE SOLUTION: Equipment Maintenance Expense Reduction • Captures all expiration dates of existing agreements.
• Results in a detailed savings analysis showing you which maintenance agreements
The program offers significant savings of up to 30% on existing equipment maintenance can be moved into the program thereby improving your budget.
agreements without changing vendors or compromising service. It is a time-tested, proven • Is free and without obligation on your part to implement the program.
approach since 1982 with the following features:
• Allows you to leverage the dollars you spend on multiple service contracts. D e p a r t m e n t S a v i n g s
• Provides a FREE consultative study detailing your overall savings opportunity by vendor.
• Saves you money without reducing quality of service or changing vendors. Potential Savings
• Improves your efficiency through cost-savings and effective time management.
• Lets YOU keep Control of your vendors.
• Lets YOU define the equipment selected for participation in the program. Time and $$ Cost
Nominal $10,000 $20,000 $30,000 $40,000 $50,000
SAVE: Sampling of Savings from Recently Converted Agreements
Time
Equipment Mfg. Contract Amount Annual Savings
Nano Pump 1100/1200 Agilent $2,871 20%
CONTROL: Better Information = Better Decisions
Realtime PCR, Model 7500 Applied Biosystems $5,301 22%
Facscalibur, 4 CLR BD Bioscience $13,376 21% Upon completion of the Consultative Study, you will be able to make an informed decision on
Cytometer, LSR II BD Bioscience $17,456 30% how best to design the program. And the information does not stop there. As an added benefit
Fraction Collector, SC100 Beckman Coulter $791 22% when you implement the program, the following online reports are available to aid your decision
Microplate Reader BioTek $4.083 18% making:
Liquid Handling Workstation Eppendorf North America $3,600 18%
Confocal Microscope, SP5 Leica $30,475 15% • Equipment inventory by vendor, department, and manufacturer.
Spectrophotometer Nanodrop Technologies $850 25% • Equipment repairs by equipment type or location.
Urinalysis Analyzer, Clinitek 500 Siemens Healthcare $1,092 18% • High frequency repairs to pinpoint problem equipment.
Proliant Server, DL380 SMS Systems $216 30% • Warranty expiration date tracking.
Upright Freezer, ULT23 Thermo Fischer $814 20% To further improve efficiencies and reduce paperwork, all contracts moved into the program
will have a common anniversary date and your vendors will be paid in 25-35 days for covered
Strategic Sourcing Solutions has worked with clients in multiple industries (research institutions,
corrective and preventative service costs.
hospitals, medical clinics, city and county governments, higher education and financial institutions)
throughout the United States and Canada for over 20 years. We are experienced and dedicated to If your institution is a member of E & I Cooperative Purchasing, additional benefits may be
developing a program which meets your institutional and departmental expense reduction goals. available through the program’s underwriter, SU Group, LLC.