Services
We provide high-level customized consulting in the fields of Sole Source Provider negotiation, document management and implementation of new/ existing services or products. Whether your school or district is seeking to improve the effectiveness, quality and or profitability of your relationships with key Sole Source providers and suppliers, K12 channel partners has the tools and expertise to assist you.
Factors and Negotiation Software™ “FANS”
The Factors and Negotiation Software™ “FANS” provides schools and districts with competitive research based data thus allowing the ability for decision makers to validate if the school or district is getting the best deal.
The Factors and Negotiation Software™ “FANS” is influenced from the Education Department general Administrative Regulations “Edgar Act”: where school districts must have a minimum of three written quotes for purchases $3500 to $49,999 and also competitively bid for purchases $50,000 or greater (not new). Price or rate quotations (documented in writing) must be obtained from an adequate number of qualified sources for all purchases in this range (new interpretation).
• Quickly gain access to competitive bids
• Quickly create search queries for specific product types
• Display savings dashboard showing monthly, quarterly or annual savings from negotiated deals
• Cloud Based solution allowing users to access research based data from multiple devices
Please contact us for pricing.
Sole Source Provider and Vendor Consulting:
Our focus involves assisting or negotiating in new or existing Sole Source Provider agreements in the areas of technology integration, professional development or curriculum solutions. We also help in improving the quality of new or existing training implementations in the areas of technology, math, reading and professional development. Consulting engagements can vary in their scope and objectives, so we have listed our areas of expertise below.
Strategic negotiations and consulting engagements may include:
• Professional Development solutions
• Learning Management solutions
• Technology Integration and curriculum solutions
• In-House Printing Analysis/ Solutions
• Assisting your team with strategies to more effectively manage complex, high-stakes negotiations. These can range from your current negotiations, which you realize no cost savings or are deadlocked, or others that are not progressing as well as they could be.
New/ Existing product Implementation Consulting:
Implementation negotiation is very similar to mediation but can apply to a wider variety of situations and is more flexible in its form. Like the mediator, the facilitator must design a process for addressing the task at hand in a fair and efficient manner. The desired outcome of the facilitator’s work is typically less strictly defined than that of the “legal” mediator.
When facilitation occurs, the parties utilizing the facilitator may not be in dispute or deadlock about an issue. They may simply wish to manage the process as efficiently as possible and therefore choose to work with a facilitator. Rather than having responsibility for shepherding a group of parties all the way through a negotiation to its final result (either agreement or some other form of action to settle the dispute at hand), the facilitator may only be responsible for managing one part of the process, while the parties themselves will manage the remainder of it.
Examples may include facilitating and the negotiation of key portions of an agreement to an organization’s strategic implementation process of professional development to curriculum content. Facilitation can also be an excellent way to improve the quality of brainstorming on a particular issue.
Wherever the stakes are high and the issues are complex, external facilitation can be a valuable investment.
Document Management Consulting:
We are honored to have a in place a strategic channel partner with Freedom Profit Recovery, the country’s leading Managed Savings Provider™ in the area of document-output. This partnership allows us the ability to provide schools and districts with access to their proprietary analytic process that on average uncovers a 20% hard-dollar cost savings associated with your document output expenditures. Unlike typical consultants we will work and support the recommendations for their entire usable life. The partnership success will ultimately be based on the delivery and management of the solution that is recommended.
Consulting Service Fee:
A Service Fee for our consulting engagements are paid only when the School or District realizes a cost savings from our efforts.
Please contact us to learn more about why schools and districts like our pricing model.
Factors and Negotiation Software™ “FANS” Service Fee:
Please contact us to learn more about the upcoming Factors and Negotiation Software™ “FANS” service fee.