Hospitals are among the heaviest users of energy per square foot. Our energy group has engineering knowledge and tools to reduce the usage of electricity, fuel, and water/sewer. We design and implement engineering changes in the control of mechanical systems that often waste energy in hospital facilities, reducing consumption and costs by 10%-30% with no capital investment. We also determine your current Energy Star rating, track changes to your rating and often obtain the prestigious Energy Star Label for your buildings.

The Surgical First Assistant program is a flexible staffing solution that provides trained professional surgical first assistants (SFA's) to hospitals and surgery centers wishing to reduce staffing expense, increase throughput, and provide the best possible support for surgeons and their patients. The program is implemented with no financial investment and no disruption to the surgical team.

We drive down the unit prices of externally purchased goods and services through world-class, data-driven procurement. With extensive subject matter expertise and a real time database developed through 500+ client projects since 1992, we deliver an average of 18% hard cost savings across more than 100 spend categories.

We focus on the costs associated with direct and indirect materials and purchased services by utilizing proven strategic sourcing best practices. By leveraging proprietary databases, realtime market intelligence, subject matter expertise and e-sourcing tools, we achieve consistently superior results for our clients.

Typical engagements are implemented in 4-6 months and include some or all of the following:

• Spend analysis & consolidation

• Development of statements of work

• Identification of alternate sources of supply

• Market intelligence research

• RFI/RFP management

• Contract & pricing negotiations/recommendations.  

In every engagement, we seek to maintain or improve quality of service from incumbent and any new suppliers.  We assist in the transition of a new supplier or ordering platform when needed and continue to monitor and audit invoices for compliance after the new prices have been implemented.  Our results are achieved exclusively through a collaborative effort with our client, our internal team and clients’ suppliers.

We provide the change management tools to enable our clients to achieve maximum savings and drive compliance throughout their organization over the long term.  At the conclusion of our engagements, we conduct a knowledge transfer phase in which we electronically enable our clients with free access to our e-sourcing tools, including the ability to conduct electronic RFP/RFI events and Reverse Auctions as well as manage contracts more efficiently.  Our clients become self-sufficient in driving ongoing savings and cost control initiatives within their organization.

Our strategic sourcing projects can be structured on a contingency-based, gain sharing agreement, a traditional fee-for-service model or a hybrid of the two.