Our services
How we work for you
At Business Cost Consultants, we offer a comprehensive 360o solution to reduce all aspects of your business costs. Our services are tailored to the requirements of each individual client, ensuring the highest quality service and the best value for money.
Our services are listed in the menu down the left side of this page. However, the diagram below shows the four main areas on which we focus:
Audit your costs
When Business Cost Consultants are first engaged as your consultants, we want to be seen as part of your team and fully understand your existing utility services. Therefore, our team of consultants will analyse the previous 12 months of activity on each of your utility accounts and generate a comprehensive and detailed report. Within that report, Business Cost Consultants will identify areas where savings can be made. Contact us now to discuss how we can help by auditing your costs.
Once you have digested the contents of the report, we will visit you to establish which recommendations you want to accept, then we will implement the accepted proposals on your behalf. The full utility audit and report is updated every year, bringing you up to date with the changes in your utility services and how the changes in the utility markets have affected your organisation.
Manage your bills
If you have ever had a billing dispute with a utility company, you will understand how frustrating they can be to deal with. With our vast experience and numerous contacts, Business Cost Consultants will take this time-consuming and stressful task off your hands, allowing your staff to focus on your core business. Contact us now to discuss how we can help you save time and hassle.
All incoming bills are thoroughly checked, scanned into our secure document server, then forwarded on for payment as usual within 24 hours. If there are any errors on the bills, the Business Cost Consultants team will deal with the suppliers on your behalf and report back to you. For example, please take a look the Morris Furniture Group case study.
Reduce your consumption
It’s simple with water and energy management – the less you use, the less you spend. Therefore, Business Cost Consultants work with you to eliminate unnecessary consumption and to optimise the efficiency of the energy and water you do use.
The best way to get a clear picture of how you use (or misuse) your energy and water is to monitor the consumption on a regular basis. This can be achieved by smart metering which remotely monitors each of your supplies on a half hourly basis and produces useful charts and graphs which Business Cost Consultants analyse. Armed with that consumption data, we then may send our experts on to your site(s) to investigate wastage of energy and water. That approach produced savings of over 70% in water consumption for Rangers Football Club. Please take a look at the Rangers FC case study.
We will work closely with you and your team to systematically reduce any wastage and improve the efficiency of your utilities. This will reduce your costs, reduce your carbon emissions, and improve your environmental responsibility. Contact us now to discuss how we can help you reduce your consumption of energy and water.
Procure your contracts
Energy contracts
Currently, the most effective way of achieving savings on your energy contracts is not by being a particularly good negotiator or buying large quantities of energy. In today’s volatile energy markets, it’s more to do with the timing of when you buy your contract (or “time to market”), knowing how to present your energy data and knowing which suppliers are likely to be most interested in your individual energy profile.
By working with Business Cost Consultants, you will be able to tap into our market intelligence and expertise and make the most of the savings achievable by our “time to market” approach. We manage the whole tendering process on your behalf, ensuring a smooth handover to your new supplier. Contact us now to discuss how we can help you reduce your energy rates.
Telecoms contracts
Being completely independent, Business Cost Consultants help many of our clients to establish exactly what they need, not what telecom suppliers want to sell them. We will help you to navigate the complex and jargon-filled telecoms market.
We can help with the design of telecoms systems, and procurement of telecom systems, tendering of your line rental, call charges, maintenance and, management of your billing and tariff analysis. When recommending a telecoms or mobiles supplier, we ensure value for money and quality of service for each client. For example, please take a look at the Raeburn Group case study.
Our expertise helps clients reduce costs and manage the following:
- Utility expenditure (water, electricity, mains gas, LPG (hover-over: liquid petroleum gas) mobile phones and telecoms;
- Energy and water conservation;
- Carbon emissions;
- Renewable energy;
- Disputes with utility suppliers;
- Verification of incoming utility bills;
- Telephone systems and structured cabling;
- Office equipment;
- Fire and security systems;
- Print services;
- Courier services; and
- Other non-core goods and services.
Our proposition is simple. If you spend over £50,000 per annum on utilities we will audit, manage and procure your utilities. If we do not make savings, we will charge no fees. If we do make savings, we will take our fees from the savings we make for you. Therefore, we will effectively cost you nothing.
Contact us today to discuss how we can help your organisation to save time and money.