Brighton aldridge community academy & Portslade aldridge community academy
Contract Start Date - 29/04/2015
Completion Date - Ongoing
Amount Saved - £37,400
“Axiom have been managing our utility spend since 2015. They began by ensuring all our old utility bills were correct, and have since gone on to negotiate our electricity & gas contracts at both academies. I think it’s fair to say, their service is excellent!”
BACA & PACA are academies in and around Brighton that are part of the the Aldridge Foundation. Although part of the same foundation, they are autonomous academies that share some central functions.
Axiom were appointed in April 2015 to provide a Timeline Audit to both academies - checking electricity, gas and water billing going back over 6 years. This yielded a small refund to one of the academies, but both audits uncovered areas that, once corrected yielded ongoing savings.
Axiom analysts also noticed that one of the supply contracts had finished, and the academy was being charged expensive "out-of-contract" rates. With BACA's permission, Axiom undertook a tender exercise - fully compliant with Public Sector Procurement directives, to source a new contract. This resulted in a significant saving to the Academy, and Axiom were asked to negotiate new supply contracts for both electricity and gas at each Academy - both academies are now co-terminus with regard to both power and gas, and have significantly reduced costs across the board.
Liverpool City Council
Contract Start Date – 17.03.2015
Completion Date – Ongoing
Amount Refunded - £64,312
The Council spend approximately £1,000,000 per annum on water & wastewater charges each year, and have rigorous in-house validation procedures for billing.
“I think the measure of how good a service a consultant supplies, is whether or not you feel you could manage without them. Axiom have made themselves indispensable.”
The Council were looking for a consultancy that could provide a "deep dive" audit of their water charges without the need for much project management from Council staff as workloads were already stretched. The Council also needed a provider that could be flexible in their approach to remuneration, as the usual share-of-savings model did not work for them.
Axiom were engaged to provide the service on a fee only basis in March 2015, and were given several lever arch files of billing and a letter of authority soon after.
The relationship still continues today. Each month, the Council has added to Axiom's remit - from the initial deep dive audit, to where they are now providing a monthly water bureau report to the Council, and have been asked to backfill the database with the last 6 year's billing.
