BDO inks partnership with business mobile comparison platform Predict

BDO has entered a strategic partnership with Predict, one of the UK’s most popular platforms for comparing business mobile services.

The partnership will leverage both parties’ skills and capacity to provide fact-based data-driven advisory services that are easy to engage with and offer significant returns, said BDO in a statement.

Predict helps organisations of all types and sizes to ensure a better return on business mobile communications. The company’s platform and tools help businesses navigate complex tariff structures and the specifics of data usage to avoid often significant overspend. BDO meanwhile is one of the largest accounting and consulting firms in the UK.

“The long-term aim of the partnership is to provide independent and impartial advisory and assurance services to clients, through a combination of market expertise and AI technology to deliver transformative procurement and cost management capability,” explained Miles Hewitt-Boorman, partner at BDO.

“Our joint approach breaks down barriers to effective business mobile procurement and ongoing cost management, enabling clients to extract maximum value from their spend.”

Alongside an advisory offering, the partnership will also offer joint client a managed tender service to enable businesses to engage with the market more efficiently to source and choose from tailored business mobile proposals to better meet business needs.

Simon Gallagher, BDO’s Head of Consulting, said: “Our relationship with Predict will further expand the portfolio of services we can offer and will be hugely valuable to our client base.”

Colin Loveday, CEO and Founder of Predict, added: “We estimate that UK businesses could be overspending by more than £2 billion a year on their mobile communication services so the scope to help BDO clients is immense. We are excited and appreciative of the opportunity to partner with BDO to create greater awareness of the common issues behind this problem.”