Raftelis specializes in developing regional collaboration and shared service arrangements. If you are considering a new approach, having a partner onboard that has done this effectively can help you navigate the barriers to arrive at solutions like:

• Joint Contracting: Working with another entity to achieve greater economies of scale and lower unit and administrative costs are obvious advantages to working together. In some cases, bigger projects can also draw more interest from contractors. Joint contracting for paving, building maintenance services, and fleet activities are common areas of focus.
• Service Sharing: Efficiency can be achieved, and identity preserved through contracting and service sharing. Whether its crossing jurisdictional boundaries to contract for fleet maintenance or contracting with a county sheriff or police agency to provide local policing, we can identify opportunities, costs, and benefits to making collaborative service sharing work at the local level.
• Resource Sharing: Public agencies often need temporary or part-time resources, or an expensive piece of equipment for certain projects. Existing resources may also have extra capacity. Sharing these resources saves money and improves services.
• Project Partnering: Perhaps multiple agencies will be working in the same street in back-to-back years. By partnering on a project there are opportunities to minimize disruption and get better pricing.
• Regionalization and Consolidation: Sometimes working in a consolidated or regionalized manner makes the most sense for the people that rely on the agency for service. Agencies have opportunities to combine part or entire organizations to provide better and more cost-effective services.