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A Fortune 500 energy and utilities leader partnered with Avetta to streamline contractor onboarding, enhance safety and compliance, and accelerate storm response – saving time, reducing costs, and advancing innovation through a long-term strategic partnership.
The client is a Fortune 500 energy and utility provider serving Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. With a diverse power generation portfolio built on resiliency, reliability, and cleaner energy, they have operated for over a century, growing across the Gulf South while supporting local communities through social empowerment, philanthropy, and advocacy.
Delivering electricity, natural gas, and nuclear energy, the client is increasingly embracing carbon-free sources to power today’s lives while building a sustainable future. Their commitment to empowering customers, employees, owners, and communities has established them as one of the Americas’ leading energy distributors, recognized for unmatched service excellence and world-class energy solutions.
The client was finding it difficult to efficiently vet and manage their contract partners, which was leading to increased costs and longer turnaround times. They needed a solution to:
The client has been Avetta’s partner since 2016, building a robust contractor ecosystem. Avetta helped streamline contractor onboarding by offering its prequalification solution, ensuring compliance and safety.
The client also partnered with Avetta as a strategic partner and ESG subcommittee member, helping to develop ESG-focused solutions and contributing industry insights to enhance Avetta’s platform.
Working across multiple business units – power delivery, capital projects, storm response, IT, and telecom – Avetta enabled the client to apply a consistent but adaptable contractor management process. This delivered significant cost savings and reduced time spent managing contract partners.
“Working as separate organizations for power delivery, capital projects, storm, IT, telecom, and more, the ability for each BU to utilize a similar yet distinct process for vetting and managing contract partners represents a tremendous opportunity for cost savings as well as a massive step forward in terms of the time spent to manage our contract partners. Avetta’s purpose-specific solutions helped us achieve that and unlock value at scale.”
– Health and Safety Manager
Avetta simplified the contractor prequalification and onboarding process, creating cost and time savings while improving compliance and safety.
With more than 45,000 contractors across sites, Avetta enabled faster vetting and onboarding of storm contractors. This helped reduce incident response time and strengthened safety performance during emergencies.
The client collaborated with Avetta on refining and enhancing the Analytics 2.0 module, becoming early adopters of advanced reporting capabilities. This partnership continues to fuel innovation and optimize contractor management at scale.
“We have been working with Avetta for over 6 years and have advanced to be a strategic partner. This process is key to managing our contract partner relationships as well as supply chain and sustainability aspects in the future. Through this relationship, we now have a seat on the APEX board (Avetta Product Experience), which gives us access to and allows us to shape the future initiatives on the product roadmap. These meetings also allow us to exchange with our peers and complement our cycle of continuous improvement to ensure that everyone gets home safe. Every day. #zeroispossible”.
– Health and Safety Manager
Confident contractor pre-qualification starts with Avetta.
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