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This document provides an introductory briefing on cost reduction services. It summarizes that the company offers to identify savings across various supply lines like utilities, phones, supplies, and contracts, or charges nothing for their work. They take a two-phase approach - first identifying initial savings, then investing in new technologies to further reduce costs and carbon footprints. They aim for long-term partnerships and have helped clients like Bradfield College achieve hundreds of thousands in savings across services.
Crc intro
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- 2. Agenda The Company Our results Whatwe offer The process
- 3. The Bottom Line… A guarantee to find worthwhile savings*, or charge nothing for the work we do. *Worthwhile means savings that genuinely add value, rather than merely cutting the level of service.
- 4. The Cost ReductionCompany • All experienced professionals. • Our goal: to enable organisations to find savings AT THE SAME TIME AS reducing their carbon footprint. • Focus on creating longer term partnerships. • Price is not everything. Maintaining quality is vital. • Sensitive to the nuances of each situation.
- 5. Some of OurClients
- 6. Examples of SavingsAchieved • Bradfield College: £460,000 to date – range of services. • An academy: rebate of £22,500 – electricity meter. • Independent school: £63,000 – photocopiers/printers. • Independent school: £18,000 – waste management • Hospital: £6,800 – water charges rebate. • RUH Bath: over £40,000 per annum – water management. • RUH Bath: £75,000 per annum – food purchasing. • An academy: £60,000 – grounds maintenance contract. • Telephone costs: almost every organisation that’s let us look. • Utilities: in the past 6 months we’ve always beaten the in-house broker’s best price.
- 7. Bradfield College Testimonial “Wehave found them very professional and thoughtful. Most importantly for us, they have worked with us in developing ideas, but have been understanding of the traditions and complexities of our organisation. As a partnership they have expanded our thinking and approaches to energy saving. We are delighted with the cost-savings and efficiencies that they have made to reduce our consumption levels of water and electricity. Needless to say we are continuing to work with them to further reduce energy consumption and costs.” Ian Barnes, Assistant Bursar, Bradfield College
- 8. What We Offer •Only paid from our success – no upfront fee. • Return more of savings to client than our competitors. • Look for long term partnership – client led. • Progress in bite-sized chunks. • Minimise client workload. • Use new technologies to enable Carbon Footprint reduction AND further savings.
- 9. Two Phase Approach 1. Investment in new 1. We identify initial savings across a technologies, to reduce wide range of supply lines, currently consumption – leading to reduced totalling 27, including for example: • Gas, electricity, oil Carbon Footprint, and still further • Telephones savings in costs. For example … • Janitorial • Heating management systems • Office supplies/stationery • Photocopiers/printers • Photo-voltaics • Waste-water • Voltage stabilisation and • Catering optimisation • Grounds maintenance • Waste management • Print optimisation • Bill validation • Building management systems • VAT and other taxes, where applicable. • Waste management systems
- 10. To get started… •Agree areas to analyse, sign Terms & Conditions (if required at this stage). • Confirm documentation/bills required by CRC - we can’t get to work without these. • Agree timeframe for CRC report on findings and proposals.
Editor's Notes
- #5 The CRC was formed 2 years ago by two directors with over 40 years commercial experience between them. All partners are experienced professionals, from a variety of backgrounds.The CRC is a cost and purchase consultancy, but is dedicated to finding savings for clients AND reducing carbon footprint (the latter only if the client wishes, but this is an area that is gaining importance and legislative momentum year by year).We are not a pushy company who merely wish to come in, look for easy targets, extract a fee, and move on. We much prefer to see it as a longer term partnership, going at the client’s pace.We recognise that quality is important, and so are good working relationships with your suppliers, supplier reliability, and convenience. Price is not everything.We also recognise that it’s very important to listen to a client’s needs. And respect any sensitivities about existing supply.
- #6 CRC has a wide range of high-profile clients already. These are some examples…We are working with three London clubs now, and due to start work with a fourth shortly.
- #7 With Bradfield College we have achieved savings through finding cheaper tariffs on a range of supplies; and then engaged in a range of consumption reduction projects (which have cut their costs further).The remainder of the examples are recent savings achieved for clients in single projects, and most relate to tariff reduction.
- #9 We offer a genuine No Saving - No Fee service. We’ll conduct an initial analysis of expenditure in whatever area requested, including a thorough scrutiny of invoices. Only if we identify worthwhile savings, and the client decides to exploit the opportunity, will we raise a fee. So, we are only paid out of our success.More often than not we do find worthwhile savings. Other companies in this business take out a higher fee than CRC does. Our standard fee is 35% of the value of the savings returned to the client, although with some overheads there is no fee because we take a small percentage of the supplier’s charge. We are always open about how we earn our share.CRC seeks to establish a long term partnership with the client. Rather than simply looking for easy pickings, we would much rather spend time talking with the client, gain a good understanding of the pressure points and priorities, and go at a pace that the client is comfortable with. We are genuine about cost-reduction.We recognise that clients are busy, and may not have time to do any extra work: so we’ll go to great lengths if necessary to minimise the workload that the process entails. We may nag you from time to time, because we know that sometimes busy people need a gentle nag to get going with an important new project when there is already enough to be getting on with. But we also know when to back off because clients are up to their necks in urgent tasks. You always have ‘leave-me-in-peace-I’m-busy’ rights…We tend to find savings in two ways. The first is to look through existing invoices and see if there are immediate or short term savings available: for example, this may be a rebate on a utility contract, or a cheaper tariff. But for longer term and sustained savings, once we’ve proved ourselves, we will introduce the client to innovative technologies that enable a tighter control of consumption and ultimately enable a reduction in consumption.
- #10 In the initial search for savings we can assess a wide range of supply lines, much wider than clients generally expect. We’ll only look at those areas that the client suggests, after our initial meeting. These are some examples, and illustrate how diverse our services can be:
- #11 We’ll explain the process at our initial meeting: it’s as easy and burden-free for the client as we can make it…