Utilities

In simple terms, you give us your bills and we’ll invite the suppliers to tender for your business and then manage the process of setting up a new contract. Because we manage the contract, the rates available are almost always significantly better than the supplier will offer you if you go directly to them..

The benefits

Savings

As with any tendering process the deals you are offered will be very competitive and represent significant savings, and depending on your usage can run to tens of thousands of pounds.

Management

As with any commercial contract, you need to be careful and understand what you are signing-up to. In the case of energy supply contracts, this usually means a 12 month deal, with a pre-arranged renewal date several months before the contract ends.

While you are busy concentrating on your core business these critical dates are easily overlooked, especially if you have several premises each with different contract dates, with different power suppliers. You can easily find you’ve been moved to the suppliers’ standard (more expensive) rates if you fail to renegotiate in time.

Procuria will manage your energy contracts. That means that we’ll automatically start the renegotiation process for you, at exactly the right time. We track your usage, so we can get you the best deal available based on the market rates at the time of renewal.

What we need from you

Your most recent Gas and Electric bills as well as any renewal letter from your current supplier (if you have received one in the last month). This information will allow us to provide you with a price comparison against your current or renewal unit price quoted by your current supplier.

To ensure we have all the information required, we ask you to send all pages of your Gas and Electric bill(s).

Simply fax them to 0845 300 9028 or email to sales@procuria.net

The information that should be shown on your bills

Suppliers name

e.g. British Gas, NPower, Powergen etc

Name and Address

Your name or company name and full address, this is usually shown on the top left of the bill.

Site Address

This can usually be found in smaller print near the top of the bill on the right hand side, but there is no set place for it. If you have multiple sites we need the bills for each site.

MPAN Number

The full MPAN needs to be visible on an Electricity bill. This can be anywhere on the bill, some suppliers will display this information on another page at the very edge of the page so it is not visible when faxed.

MPR Number

The full MPR (Meter Point Reference) number needs to be visible on a Gas bill.

Billing Period

We need your most recent bill. Out of date bills may relate to an old contract so the information including current rates will be incorrect. This would invalidate any analysis carried out. Please be sure it is a bill and not just a statement.

Current Rates/Charges

This is all the rates/prices you are currently paying. This is usually found at the centre of a bill where the cost is calculated but some suppliers have their charges on separate sheets.

Usage

This is the number of kWh used during the billing period. It is useful to determine if the current usage is a true representation - please check it against your actual Gas and Electric usage for all relevant sites. If this is not possible then you can send us a previous bill for usage purposes only in order for us to make a comparison

Telecoms

Our telecoms supplier is a tier-1 network reseller, servicing the SME & small corporate market place on behalf of its larger network partners. We can broker a wide range of telecom services tailored to you needs, which include:

Fixed Line Services

Our telecom partner is a BT Wholesale Line Rental provider, offering both Digital and Analogue services, requiring no additional hardware or installation and compatibility with existing systems and numbers we can reduce your line rental charges by up to 20% and save up to 50% on the cost of your calls.

IP and Data

Business Broadband

With 99.7% UK coverage, we can provide you LLU, data stream and IP stream available in Business, Business Max and Standard with up to 8Mb Downstream and 800kbps upstream, contended at 20:1 and Static IP with SMTP mail forwarding.

Managed SDSL

Un-contended service - dedicated high-speed Internet connection up to 8 times faster than ADSL Broadband for upload, ideal for connecting business sites together at high speed.

Managed IP-VPN & Network Connectivity

Private network solutions at low cost using a range of access technologies. MPLS network offering a fast, secure, future proof platform as well as DSL access for rapid and cost effective connectivity to a VPN. This is complementary to existing access methods providing short lead times for delivery and low cost of entry with the full MPLS benefits and flexible contention ratios.

QoS over available for deploying delay sensitive applications cost-effectively.

Converged Network Solutions - IP-Hosted
Voice Solution

Overview of Hosted Voice

• Cisco hosted voice solution on managed private network
• Single managed data network between all sites which for all voice and data traffic
• Unified phone system across all sites
• Phone systems at sites replaced with single voice and data router Connected via the managed network to main Cisco call manager platform hosted in data centre
• Cisco IP phones connect to the router via shared CAT5 cabling on site

Benefits to your business

• Reduce line rental costs & zero-rate inter-site call traffic
• Eradicate phone system & maintenance at each site
• Reduce ongoing support and maintenance charges
• Phone system programming can all be managed remotely
• No need for an engineer to install and configure
• Phones can be shipped pre-configured for next day delivery

Phone systems & associated services

Installation, Maintenance, Refurbishment and Repair

• Full installation service for traditional and IP phone systems
• Maintenance services for UK installed base of telephone systems and local area networks
• Refurbishment of equipment for installation in Greenfield or Brownfield sites
• Repair to hardware that has been damaged regardless of whether or not the equipment is covered by a maintenance contract

Value-ad Services

Non-geographic number services

0800, 0808, 0845, 0844, 0870, 0871 - find out how you can use these services to improve campaign management and offset call charges with rebates for inbound traffic.

International Free phone number services

Unlock the potential of foreign markets and still sleep at night - let us manage your International free phone services.

Conferencing

Work smarter not harder with a self-managed, easy-to-use conference facility.

Mobile Phones & Devices

We can offer you a full review of your existing tariff and unbiased advice when selecting Voice and Data packages and a transparent comparison of telecom providers will be presented against the predetermined needs of your business.

To ensure we have all the information required, we ask you to send all pages of your Telecom bill(s).

Simply fax them to 0845 300 9028 or email to sales@procuria.net