Case Study: a Houston-based national engineering, procurement, and construction company saves $3M+ with AIM Consulting Group's build-vs-buy assessment

Houston-based National Engineering, Procurement, and Construction Company saves $3M+ with AIM Consulting Group

A Houston-based national engineering, procurement, and construction company faced an inefficient and detail-intensive process for responding to RFPs. They partnered with AIM Consulting to conduct a build vs. buy assessment to determine whether to purchase an out-of-the-box solution like Salesforce CPQ or IBM Watson, or to build a custom application to overhaul their bidding system.

AIM Consulting recommended building a custom web application with a roadmap to later leverage natural language processing, advising against costly off-the-shelf AI tools until sufficient historical data was captured. This solution, projected by AIM Consulting to save over $3 million in licensing and operational fees over three years, provided a scalable and aligned approach that avoided unnecessary investment in technology that did not meet the company's immediate needs.