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Most organizations are struggling today with an unfamiliar reality, where businesses and public service organizations must continue to deliver products and services during a global pandemic. Face-to-face contact is minimized, even eliminated, in many jurisdictions. To help clients and firms better understand how this may impact consulting rates, this report updates our analysis of rate differentials between services provided on a client's premises, and those provided by consulting staff located off site. Where firms offer these two rate alternatives, a second set of rates is provided for services performed from the consulting firm's offices or other off-site facilities, in addition to the standard rate schedule for services performed on the client site. This report provides results of MR's 2020 study of rate differentials. Master services agreements for 18 location-based rating schemes from 16 firms were analyzed for 2020 rates, contrasting these results with trends detailed in our 201...More

Table of Contents: (1) 2016-2017 South Africa, Italy and Spain Strategy Consulting Rates: Monadnock Research Reports (Vol IX, No 10-12); (2) Heidrick & Struggles to Acquire Leadership Consultancy, Philosophy IB; (3) Accenture to Acquire Australian Cyber-Security Consultancy, Redcore; (4) Aon Hewitt Acquires Cammack Health; (5) Booz Allen Hamilton Closes Office in Azerbaijan; (6) Infosys to Terminate 3,000 Staff After RBS Announces Plans to Divest Williams & Glyn; (7) Consulting Leadership: Ankura, BAE, BearingPoint, KPMG, PA, Navigant, L.E.K., Huron and FTI; and (8) Thought Leadership: Korn Ferry, Deloitte, Mercer and Hackett. (3,025 words)...More

This report focuses on the rate differential between services provided on the client's premises, and those provided in near proximity to the client's location, but at firm facilities. Some firms offer these two rate alternatives, with location-based rate differentials separately detailed for services provided by professionals with a second, higher, set of rates for services provided from the consulting firm's offices. Our findings detail results of MR's July 2015 analysis of 2015 and 2016 rate differentials negotiated between 17 large consulting firms and a single large client, the US Public Sector's General Services Administration. Master services agreements for 21 location-based rating schemes from 17 firms were analyzed for 2015 rates with 18 schemes analyzed from 16 large firms for 2016 rates. This report presents details on the mean and median rate differentials for each firm, along with full detail and analysis on the rates by professional level for each set of rates. (104 pages,...More

Table of Contents: (1) KPMG Reaches Agreement to Acquire Triad's ServiceNow Business and Beacon Partners; (2) WPP Launches Digital Marketing Consultancy, Gain Theory; (3) Eight Consultancies Make Fortune's 2015 Top 100 Employers List; No Firms Make Fortune's Top 100; (4) Cave Consulting Wins $12 Million Patent Infringement Suit; (5) Former McGladrey Auditor Sentenced to 4+ Years in Federal Prison for Embezzling More than $1 Million; (6) Consulting Leadership: KPMG, Wipro, EY, Deloitte & Altran; and (7) Thought Leadership: BCG, Accenture, KPMG & PwC. (2,270words)...More

MR - Some firms are willing to negotiate location-based rating schemes for strategic clients. So what are the average differences in rates for work provided exclusively at the client site when compared to rates for the same work provided at the firm site? Monadnock Research recently concluded an analysis of location-based rating (LBR) from more than 30 consulting firms that proposed 56 separate LBR schedules. Our study included analysis of 242 rate structures from 153 large and very large consulting firms providing services to the U.S. public sector to find those 56 schemes. Of the 153 firms, discounts were offered by 34 firms, primarily by level of professional providing services exclusively from the client facility. The study included rating schemes for IT Consulting, Management Consulting, Financial and Business Advisory Services, Human Resources Consulting, and Marketing Consulting. Research Note includes 2 graphics and firm-level rate analysis for the 34 firms and 56 LBR schedul...More

MR - BAE Systems has reached settlements associated with a U.K. Serious Fraud Office investigation first disclosed by BAE in November 2004 and a U.S. Justice Department investigation disclosed in June 2007. The agreements, if approved by courts in the U.K. and U.S., call for BAE to pay £30 million in a combined fine to the U.K. Government and as a charitable contribution to benefit Tanzania, and to pay the U.S. a fine of $400 million and make assurances of future regulatory compliance. BAE admits to paying bribes to a marketing consultant in 1999 to secure a radar system order from the government of Tanzania. (401 words)...More

The US General Services Administration (GSA) is the world's largest consulting services procurement organization. This 500 page report provides consulting rate details for all professional levels and consulting categories for more that 125 of the largest providers of management and IT consulting services to U.S. Federal, State, and Local government clients. Purchase report: //www.monadnockresearch.net/products/item30.cfm...More

(23 October 2008) The International Association for Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM) has announced the results of a study highlighting the top 25 most admired global contract management performers. Five of the organizations ranked in the top 10 are large international providers of consulting and IT services, with IBM topping the list....More

U.K., 25 September 2008 - BAE Systems announced that all conditions of its offer for U.K.-based business and technology consultancy Detica Group Plc have now been satisfied or waived, and its £531 million ($983.1 billion) offer has been declared wholly unconditional. BAE Systems Holdings is now the owner of, or has valid acceptances for, slightly over 92 percent of Detica's share capital....More

(21 July 2008) Detica Group Plc, a U.K.-based business and technology consultancy, said it has received a preliminary offer to be acquired. While Detica did not disclose the firm making the offer, the Financial Times reports that it was BAE Systems. Detica serves clients in defense, security, public services, financial services, communications and media. *** 17 July Update: Detica has accepted a $1.058 billion offer to be acquired by BAE Systems....More