PDF of this tutorialUsing a single point of contact to design, build, and commission a telecommunications network involves many obvious benefits:
- lowers overall costs
- reduces cycle time
- includes performance measurement
- regulates quality and safety
- incorporates environmental management
- utilizes advanced administrative solutions
- offers professional, highly skilled, and experienced workforce
- ensures the project will be completed on time, on budget, and according to the highest quality standards
Turnkey solutions to large-scale projects save money. By using a single supplier with project-management abilities, it has been proven that overall costs for a project can be reduced by 15 to 20 percent.
The theory is that using one company to coordinate all aspects of the job, including resource planning (people, equipment, material management), work schedule, and cost management, will reduce cycle time and duplication and maintain continuity for the project. This will, in turn, reduce costs for materials, equipment, and human resources, as it will not allow for any downtime and overlap as a result of bad planning.
Performance measurement is not a possibility when multiple suppliers are used to complete a project; however, performance measurement is crucial to ensuring quality in the finished project. A single source supplier, who regularly measures the performance of its resources, ensures that the project will be completed on time, on budget, and to the highest quality standards.
Quality and safety standards are important in ensuring that a job is completed to clients’ expectations without unnecessary delay. Utilizing a company that has established processes and procedures for health and safety, quality, customer service, performance measurement, environmental issues, and training and development will ensure that the work is completed according to the highest standards.
