At any given time, the Bridges team is working on dozens of projects for schools from from coast to coast, both public and private, and with enrollments ranging from under 1,000 to more than 10,000. Though each campus has some unique supplier relationships, there are four areas of spending for which our clients most frequently ask for help - facility management, dining services, information technology and employee benefits. Below are some recent project successes for clients.
Whether the facility management functions are performed by school employees or outsourced to a third party partner, the Bridges team has been involved in dozens of projects - large and small - within the facility management department.
Waste removal, contracted services, facility supplies
Waste removal, contract services, facility supplies
Waste removal, facility supplies
Integrated facility managment, facility supplies
Contract services, facility supplies
Contract services, waste removal
Integrated facility management
Food service on campus is a very challenging area to optimize, working to find the right balance between student expectations and financial reality. The Bridges team strives to find the balance for schools that outsource this function and those that staff dining services internally.
Conducted a full RFP process and helped school to transition to new outsourced dining provider.
School self-delivers dining services. Bridges helped to consolidate broadline and specialty food distributors and drive operational efficiencies.
University self-delivers dining services; Bridges conducted an RFP process to create efficiencies with incumbent broadline distributors.
Assisted university team to re-negotiate a multi-year dining services agreement with incumbent provider.
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Telecommunications review including price re-negotiation and elimination of unused services
Software subscription review, telephony upgrade, network connection review and negotiation
Software subscription re-negotiation and consolidation of overlapping contracts and services
Wireless telecommunications services review and vendor re-negotiation
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Client was self-insured at start of engagement and remains self-insured.
Implemented plan improvements: re-structured stop-loss insurance, improved pharmacy benefits plan.
Client was fully-insurance and transitioned to partially self-insured and added an HRA program.
Implemented plan improvements: new broker selection, HRA plan, primary care solution, self-insurance program.
Client was self-insuranced at start of engagement and remains self-insured.
Implemented plan improvements: new broker selection, improved stop-loss insruance program, implemented new pharmacy program.
Client was self-insured at start of engagment and remains self-insured.
Implemented plan improvements: re-negotiated pharmacy program, additional tele-medicine program.
Client was fully-insured at start of engagmenet and added an HRA program to the fully-insured program.
Implemented plan improvements: new broker selection, HRA.
Schools often have unique requirements on which we engage including these cost categories
Multiple reivews of property & casualty insurance programs including broker RFP processes, insurance carrier negotiation, risk assessments
Conducted reviews of instituion banking relationships including treasury management services and fees, deposit income opportunities, and lending option evaluations
Benchmarked vendor renewal proposal for managed print solutions to best-in-market offers including evaluation of equipment placement, equipment necessity, and operating costs
Re-negotiation of e-resources for campuses including e-textbook services and library journal subscriptions
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