COMMERCIAL, LEGAL & CONTRACTS OPERATIONS
The practise of unlocking and maximising in every interaction, matter journey or transaction, the value residing in every part of Service Delivery, the contract and its lifecycle.
The Atkin Bowen #EthicalFirst approach is in lock step with Operations / Delivery seeking to ensure Service Performance, manage risk and protect our clients to maximise its financial position at all times.
OUR SERVICES
Discover Our Expertise
Contracting and Commercial Consultancy
Change Control & Scope Management
Profit Optimisation
Pre Sales / Bid Support
In-Life Contract Management / Legal & Contract Operations
Dispute and Issue Management
INTRODUCTORY CONSULTATION
Expert Guidance
Recognise the importance and need of good in life contract management but not sure where to turn? Need help planning or executing your next contract? Stuck with a Difficult partner or Supplier and looking to ensure fair terms ensure an #EthicalFirst margin optimisation programme, then Let us guide you. Any organization can move forward with small incremental changes, but building for the future in today’s rapidly evolving environment means taking bold chances and making insightful decisions.
CHANGE CONTROL & SCOPE MANAGEMENT
Maximise your contract to avoid delays and cost overrun
With years of experience, our staff has the capabilities and expertise to manage contractual delivery against tight budgets and difficult Suppliers. At Atkin Bowen, we combine our insights and skills to transform your processes and strategies, and in turn, your company.
We use expertise and contractual levers to optimise delivery for our clients. We’re proud to help shape and improve how our clients manage their contractual delivery ensuring scope creep and margin erosion is managed through effective In-life Commercial and Contract Management.
PROFIT OPTIMISATION
Grow Your Business
We examine contractual and commercial arrangements and through a variety of techniques and data analytics review performance to date vs spend/revenue to ensure every aspect of the contract is fairly used to ensure delivery and improve the margin position for all parties fairly.
This comes from knowing your contract well enough to maximise its financial position and ensure contractual risk in minimised. Get in touch to learn more about how this service (Cost Avoidance, Profit Leakage and Proactive Revenue Generation), and let us see if we can help you unlock the profit and cost trapped in every contract.
PRE SALES
Getting it right first time
Adopting a binary Procurement approach to Supplier management focussed on category relationships and incentivised on savings whilst not using previous experience of managing contract delivery or improving operational performance puts clients in a weaker position when agreeing contracted services.
At Atkin Bowen we remember. We use our experience in delivery to shape contracts to get them right first time. Spending time up front to ensure a future commercial position is not traded unwittingly for an immediate saving. Let us help you respond to RFIs and RFPs and manage the presales contract negotiations for you.
IN-LIFE CONTRACT MANAGEMENT /
LEGAL & CONTRACT OPERATIONS
We are experts, ready to help you.
Services include:
Contract & Legal Operations
Optimised Transaction & Matter Management
Governance Management Services
Contract Interpretation & Contract Training
Transition, Transformation and Handover Services
Risk and Compliance Management
Change Management
Contract Reviews and Contract Management Plan Creation
Managing Delays, Issues and Delays
Drafting Customer Letters, contracts, schedules and artefacts
Unlocking and Protecting value through Benchmarking Management and Margin Optimisation Initiatives
Termination Exit Assistance Services
DISPUTE & ISSUE MANAGEMENT
Helping you when you need it most
We recognise contractual disputes occur and sadly an #EthicalFirst approach seems furthest from teams' minds when emotions are flying. Our experienced team are used to managing issues and complex disputes to ensure risk is well managed and outcomes are optimised, always ensuring our clients' positions are protected and Settlements reached are fair and equitable.
We work closely with client's legal teams supporting discovery and reviews to ensure dispute costs are managed and keeping legal teams in check... As we recognise winning a legal argument that ultimately costs your business is worthless to our clients.
Being #EthicalFirst always gets the right result. Come and talk to us if you want to know more.