Powering Clarity Across 65 Sites
A centralised hire desk transformed generator procurement across sixty five active construction sites, cutting spend, improving operational behaviour, and delivering real commercial clarity.
Bringing Control Back to Power Hire
The Challenge
The client was running temporary power across more than sixty five active construction sites, but every location hired generators independently. There were no shared rules, no central visibility, and no commercial consistency. Oversizing was common, off-hire discipline was inconsistent, and generators were often left running long after works were completed.
Annual hire spend passed £2.5 million, but without coordinated oversight, identifying avoidable cost or demonstrating true value was impossible. The programme needed structure, strategy, and informed control.
Our Approach
Vanta introduced a centralised hire desk to unify and standardise temporary power activity across the entire portfolio. We validated every incoming hire request, checked sizing, challenged unnecessary extensions, and ensured commercial terms stayed consistent across all suppliers.
We built a scalable process that allowed the client to track usage, measure behaviours, and finally understand where cost was being created — and where it could be avoided.
Key actions delivered:
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One coordinated route for all generator hire
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Correct-sizing checks to prevent overspecification
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Timely off-hire validation to stop avoidable extensions
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Supplier benchmarking and commercial alignment
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Weekly portfolio reporting to highlight usage and spend
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Operational behaviour insights across all sixty five sites
The hire desk became the client’s control centre for temporary power — fast, structured, and commercially defensible.
The Impact
The new model immediately corrected oversizing, reduced unnecessary hires, and stopped recurring off-hire delays. Behaviour improved across site teams, suppliers became more accountable, and the client gained full transparency of where spend was going — and why.
The results included:
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Significant cost avoidance delivered on a £2.5m+ annual hire portfolio
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Consistent decision-making across all sixty five sites
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Commercial clarity for every hire from request to off-hire
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Stronger supplier performance through structured governance
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A scalable model ready for future project expansion
Temporary power became controlled, measured, and optimised — exactly how a programme of this scale should operate.
Project Overview
Full Works
Construction
£2.5m+
UK
The centralised hire desk has changed the way we manage temporary power across the entire programme. We now have clear visibility of every hire, consistent commercial control, and far better discipline on site. he improvement in cost, behaviour, and supplier performance has been significant. It has genuinely strengthened the way we deliver our projects.
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