Welcome to Consultus
Complete UK water tender with financial analysis: we are specialists in Business Water supplies and services to better support your operations, reduce management headaches and help you save money.
The UK water market is fully open for business, which is great news for all business users, whether you are water-intensive or not. The major opportunity is to impose far greater control over this category spend, choosing who supplies your water needs: one retailer for all water and waste services. The benefits are clear: greater choice, consolidating multiple accounts and achieving discounts, with access to e-billing and online portals.
We currently provide Business Water services to clients including The Rank Group, Fuller Smith & Turner, Places for People Leisure, and Everyone Active.
We always go out to the whole market, and we set the benchmark in pricing performance.
As a world class provider of utility buying, demand reduction and net zero services – and 100% independent of water suppliers – we can ensure you make savings in your tenderable clean water and wastewater services. We offer market leading contract and negotiation skills.
Major gains can arise from consolidating multiple services from different water suppliers into a single high-performance solution, saving you money, time and resources.
Cost savings are possible in multiple areas such as tariff optimisation, volumetric bandings, drainage bandings, cost comparisons, trade effluent, meter sizes/redundant meters, and VAT. Some charges can be backdated up to six years.
Our deep knowledge of the UK utility landscape enables us to review every supplier of water to obtain the most competitive price for our clients.
A vital part of the water supply optimisation process is an historical audit to identify erroneous charges for reclaim while setting a benchmark for pricing performance moving forward.
We offer a bespoke tender process where we undertake a whole market evaluation and provide a transparent price review, with full onboarding support and management.
With thousands of possible tariff combinations across four key services, including 130+ regional volumetric water tariffs alone, market leading bill validation protects you from errors and unnecessary costs that can go undiscovered, ensuring mistakes do not re-occur.
Installing automatic metering and monitoring for consumption granularity and to identify leaks and other consumption anomalies, accessing data through your AMR Portal: a major step forward in demand side optimisation.
With the supply side optimised and AMR providing actionable information, demand side optimisation becomes a reality in an informed, accurate and targeted way: ROI business cases that cannot be ignored.
This is a rough timescale of the whole water tender process.
Send tender and receive prices within 2 weeks.
Negotiate prices down (2-3 days).
Send recommendation pack and chosen suppliers contract paperwork to client.
Send signed contract to supplier.
Wait for sites to switch (usually 2-4 weeks)
Bespoke onsite consulting is available, as well as specialist activities such as assistance with applications for Trade Effluent consents and other wholesaler related activities. Additional services available from the Consultus team include New Technology Assessment & Deployment, Cost Management, Contract Optimisation, Project Management and Financing Solutions. Please get in touch for more details
Currently, water market regulation only permits activity in the UK estate. Bill validation, cost management and reporting services can be extended to other operational regions as required.
It takes 2 weeks to get initial prices from suppliers.
This varies depending on the supplier, but on average it takes 2-4 weeks to switch.
Water prices are made up of the wholesale cost + the suppliers management fee. You can’t fix the wholesale charges as these are reviewed every April (usually increasing), but some suppliers do offer fixed management fees.
As of November 2023, we tender out to 8 suppliers.
Wholesale costs are what the supplier is paying for the water, default costs are what the client will be charged if they aren’t in a water contract.
Only the supplier’s management fee can be negotiated as the majority of the price is the wholesaler’s costs.
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Consultus have been recognised as the UK’s most trusted energy consultancy and one of the UK’s leading Net Zero delivery partners and was awarded Consultancy of the Year (Large Customers) at the Energy Live News Awards 2021.
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