Internet
The office coordinates plant orders and trucking online.
The bid portal closed at five
By the Telecom Agency advisory team
Public paving work is bid through online portals with hard deadlines. At 4:40 on bid day the office connection failed, and a month of estimating was nearly lost to an outage.
What a consultant changes
For a business where one afternoon can decide the year, Telecom Agency recommends a second connection and a provider with a real service agreement. A broker can show what that guarantee costs from several carriers at once, and can tell the owner honestly whether it is worth paying for.
How Telecom Agency shops the market for paving contractors
- The advice
- For bid days and plant coordination, an advisor recommends a primary connection with a real service agreement and an automatic backup, and compares the carriers that offer both at the office.
- The price
- Service agreements cost more, so the advisor shows the price with and without one from several carriers. Truck and crew mobile lines are negotiated in the same round.
- The service
- Ahead of a major bid deadline the advisor can confirm the backup is working. Outages are escalated through partner channels.
- No fee to you: providers pay the advisor
- Every provider compared, none favoured
- One contact for every carrier
- Reviews and support after the install
An illustrative scenario based on situations common among paving contractors. It does not describe a specific client.
