Uniform & Linen Services Auditing

No. Most often it doesn’t make sense to switch. Over 80% of our clients keep their existing provider — our job is to present our findings, improve your pricing, service, and treat your business exactly as we would treat our own.

We need 1 month of invoices for each location/account, a copy of the vendor contract, and a signed LOA (to allow us to communicate with the vendor). No changes happen without client approval.

Not at all. In most cases, vendor performance improves once pricing and accountability are re-aligned.

Uniform and Linen vendors are notorious for overbilling their customers. What this means is they charge the highest price they can for the service. Like airline seating pricing you may have one person paying double what the next is. Without our nationwide database of vendor benchmarks it is impossible to know if you are getting the best deal possible.

Furthermore, we find billing errors against the contract frequently. The onus of identifying and fixing the billing error is on the client. The vendors are not going to proactively refund those.

Lastly, it’s incredibly important to monitor these costs each month. Without ongoing monitoring these costs will creep back up. This is a big part of the value P3 provides our clients.

This is a common misconception.  We typically stay with the incumbent provider where possible.  Provided they are providing good service for our clients at rates we know to be fair.  

This means we can often implement our findings inside of any existing agreements.  Long story short, every one of our clients had existing hauler agreements in place at 95% of their locations.  This is not a concern. 

Yes. After our initial findings are approved by you, we handle everything from there. We negotiate refunds/credits, and implement those savings moving forward. These are often lengthy negotiations, with lots of back and forth, to both get costs down and make sure any new agreements have the protections in place to keep them down.

Our service is contingency-based—there’s no upfront cost, and fees are tied to verified savings. If we don’t find you savings, that don’t hit your bottom line, there is no fee. It’s that simple.

Usually less than 3 hours across the engagement. We handle all vendor communication and data analysis. Our client’s time is needed to get us the initial data, approve our findings, and answer occasional questions. We keep you in the loop throughout the engagement and only move forward with your approval.

We deliver our initial findings within 4 weeks. Once approved by our clients we move to implement our findings with the vendor, delivering final results within 90 days.

We share in the savings with our clients for a period of 12-60 months depending upon the service level our clients desire. If we don’t deliver bottom line savings, there is no fee. A quick call with our team can walk you through the options to see if it’s a fit for you.

If you work for a business or own one, you’ve been managing these expenses since the beginning.  We find savings 90% of the time for businesses and organizations we look at.

 However, if the answer to all of the following is true, you may not need our help.  

• Is the person who is managing this expense category, only managing that expense, and has no other duties?
• Are they incentivized to save every dollar on a performance basis in that particular expense category?
• Do they have over 10 years (minimum) of sole focus on this particular expense category, doing nothing else each day?
• Do they have access to thousands of other comparable data points across industries, organizations, and peers outlining comparable costs (at a line-item level) of this particular expense category?
• Have they worked for Uniform and Linen providers before and understand all the nuances, tactics, and inner workings of the business?  

If the answer to all of those is ‘yes’ then we would concede a cost reduction audit by category experts may not yield results.  However, given we only charge if we find savings, it’s certainly worth a shot and we are happy to invest our time and resources on our client’s behalf.