The capacity you need is hidden in the contracts you already have.
Specialized Advisory Group helps municipalities, manufacturers, and services companies recover measurable savings from existing vendor agreements, with zero upfront cost and zero risk.
60-Day Fiscal Capacity Assessment
Our flagship engagement. Four phases, one outcome: clarity for your leadership team.
- No upfront fees or retainer
- No budget appropriation required
- No implementation obligation
- We're paid only on accepted, measurable savings
Track record reflects our team's collective experience across prior firms and hundreds of engagements.
Every dollar matters. Most organizations leave some behind.
The question isn't whether you can cut more. It's whether you're extracting full value from every dollar already committed to vendors and contracts.
Organizations of meaningful scale typically carry hidden fiscal capacity inside existing vendor contracts and spending structures.
Pricing negotiated years ago rarely reflects today's market, and vendors seldom volunteer the difference.
We work alongside your procurement, finance, and operations teams, not around them, adding market intelligence and benchmarking they can't get internally.
"Not can we cut more? but are we getting full value from every dollar already committed?"
The question we help leadership teams answer: in city halls, on plant floors, and across services organizations.How we create fiscal capacity
A systematic, four-step discipline refined across hundreds of engagements in multiple industries.
Contract Review
Systematic review of major spend categories and vendor agreements: total cost, terms, pricing structures, and performance obligations.
Market Benchmarking
Compare current contract terms against market pricing, peer organizations, and best-in-class standards.
Opportunity Identification
Quantify savings potential in each category. Prioritize by impact, risk, and implementation feasibility.
Implementation Support
Partner with your teams to realize identified opportunities through structured negotiation and hands-on support.
Three sectors. One discipline.
The discipline of commercial optimization applies wherever vendors operate and contracts are signed. We bring transferable expertise, not a single-industry playbook.
Municipalities
Recover fiscal capacity without raising taxes or cutting services, converting strong procurement foundations into measurable budget room.
- Utility & energy spend
- Banking & payment fees
- IT platforms & software contracts
- Wireless & telecommunications
- AP recovery audits
Manufacturing
Protect margins by recovering value across the complex vendor ecosystems that keep plants running.
- MRO & indirect spend
- Freight & logistics contracts
- Equipment & hardware agreements
- Energy & utilities
- Waste & facilities services
Services Companies
Free up capital for growth by optimizing the contracts behind your back office and technology stack.
- Software & SaaS agreements
- Telecom & wireless optimization
- Banking, payments & merchant fees
- Insurance & benefits-adjacent spend
- Facilities & office services
No cost. No risk. No obligation.
Specialized Advisory Group is not a traditional consulting firm.
No Upfront Fees
Zero out-of-pocket cost to begin. No budget appropriation required.
No Retainer
No consulting fees, no monthly retainer, no financial commitment of any kind.
Performance-Based
Compensation is earned only when measurable savings are achieved and accepted.
Fully Aligned
Our incentives are perfectly aligned with your stakeholders and fiscal priorities.
If no measurable value is identified and realized, we don't get paid.
Decades of experience. One discipline.
Ben Mrva founded Specialized Advisory Group after more than two decades helping organizations extract full value from their vendor relationships. He spent 21 years at a national advisory firm specializing in vendor contract optimization, where he served as Executive Vice President and ultimately Chief Revenue Officer. The engagements he led and supported over his career have produced more than $300 million in documented client savings.
His experience spans contract benchmarking, complex vendor negotiations, and commercial pricing analysis across hundreds of client engagements, the same discipline Specialized Advisory Group now brings to municipalities, manufacturers, and services companies. He has also served in senior executive operating roles, giving him a practitioner's view of both sides of the vendor relationship.
Ben began his career in finance at Lockheed Martin Federal Systems. He holds a bachelor's degree from Yale University and an Executive MBA from Binghamton University.
The 60-day no-cost assessment
Four phases, one outcome: clarity for your leadership team, at zero cost and zero obligation.
Discovery
- Collect contract & spend data
- Identify top spend categories
- Engage key stakeholders
Analysis
- Review contract terms & pricing
- Conduct market benchmarking
- Identify savings opportunities
Opportunity Assessment
- Quantify savings estimates
- Prioritize by impact & feasibility
- Build implementation roadmap
Executive Presentation
- Deliver opportunity summary
- Present savings estimates
- Provide prioritized roadmap
Find out what's hiding in your contracts.
Authorize a 60-day, no-cost assessment and receive an independent view of your savings opportunities, with specific, prioritized recommendations and no obligation to act.
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ben@specializedadvisorygroup.com - ◔Typical response time
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Municipalities · Manufacturing · Services