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BILLING & PROJECT POSITION “ZONE-COVERAGE ©” ASSIGNMENT POLICY

Many times, at the discretion of Al Keith & Associates, an individual consultant or employee of Al Keith & Associates may perform multiple labor position category/tasks for the SAME Customer on the SAME Contract or Project.  All of our Consultants and employees are “cross-trained” in multiple consultancy labor positions, and thus in order to lower the “Contract or Project Overhead” associated with a Customer’s work, we often will elect to assign the same individual Consultant for multiple project labor position categories or tasks.  This “ZONE-COVERAGE © ” policy is what allows Al Keith & Associates to provide the lowest billable hourly rates as possible, without added and unnecessary overhead expenses being passed on to our Customers.  Thus, as a small-business, we are able to be very competitive and provide exceptional quality services in our market sectors, while performing at the same or higher level than our larger business competitors.

Al Keith & Associates believe that in order to provide the best possible service and performance to our customers, and to maintain the highest standards of ethics and fairness to our customers, that we should bill our clients based on labor position category/task and not based on the actual person or individual consultant.  We call this “ZONE-COVERAGE ©” and we believe that we are unique as a Consulting Firm with this approach.  

For instance, if one of our Senior Project Manager consultants is performing work on behalf of a customer on-site and is performing typical “Senior Project Manager” labor position tasks for a portion of the site-visit, and then during the same visit our consultant is also spending a portion of their time performing typical “CAD/CAFM Technician” labor position tasks, then the Customer will be billed at a proportionate rate of the labor position task based on the amount of time spent performing each labor position task.

(For example, it is not uncommon that one of our Senior Designers will be at a client’s site performing customer-requested software or database customizations and that also during the course of this same site visit, the customer may ask our consultant to also “update CAD floor plans with wall or furniture reconfigurations”.  In this scenario, Al Keith & Associates may elect to have the “Senior Designer” perform the “CAD Technician” task while still on-site, rather than charge the client for a separate site visit by another consultant.  Of course, this policy is predicated on the premise that the “Senior Designer” also posses the proper “CAD Technician” skill set and education requirements!)

The “ZONE-COVERAGE ©” policy applies to all billable hourly reimbursable work performed by Al Keith & Associates on behalf of our Customers regardless of whether or not the work was performed on-site or at Al Keith & Associate’s office location.