Consortia Management Services
Administrative and Management Services: BCCM’s significant experience allows us to tailor our services to meet each consortium’s chemical-specific needs. We emphasize that the services listed below are not comprehensive -we are flexible and can provide additional support services, or adapt our support services, as may be required.
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- Legal –
- Prepare a consortium charter, by-laws, record retention policy, and an antitrust policy
- Provide scientific, regulatory, legal, and antitrust counsel
- Operational –
- Create a business and/or strategic plan
- Prepare requests for proposals and negotiate contracts with laboratories
- Develop product defense strategies, including: draft press releases and related documents, formulate responses to media and other inquiries, and prepare question and answer documents
- Administrative –
- Coordinate and schedule conference calls and meetings
- Organize and administer web conferences
- Coordinate and arrange annual or other meetings
- Prepare and distribute minutes for conference calls, web conferences, and meetings (usually within 24-48 hours)
- Conduct all recordkeeping duties
- Develop and maintain an e-mail list serve for internal communications
Communication Services: BCCM understands the necessity of timely and accurate communications among consortium members. To ensure all consortium members are aware of news and developments affecting their chemicals and have timely access to key documents, we offer a range of support services tailored to facilitate internal and external consortium communication needs.
- Informational –
- Track significant regulatory, scientific, and legal issues relevant to the consortium’s needs and long-term goals
- Prepare periodic updates (e.g., monthly, quarterly)
- Catalog and summarize chemical lists on which a chemical is included (including federal, state, and international lists)
- Alert consortium members promptly of relevant industry/government developments
- Marketing –
- Lead membership recruitment and promotional activities
- Develop professional brochures, advertising, promotional, and other informational materials (i.e., position statements, best practice guides)
- Technical –
- Design and maintain public and private websites
- External Relations –
- Build and maintain positive relationships with federal agencies (e.g., U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)), other user groups, Congress, and related entities
- Prepare for meetings with EPA and/or Congressional delegations
- Prepare for EPA site visits
- Additional Services –
- Serve as a clearinghouse for the amalgamation of what would otherwise be competitively sensitive information
- Coordinate and monitor testing activities
Financial Services: BCCM appreciates the importance to member companies of controlling costs, developing accurate budgets, and tracking costs and budget items carefully on a real time basis. By assessing management costs to each member company on a flat fee basis (exclusive of disbursements), BCCM provides member companies with a high degree of business certainty, transparency, and hands-on engagement in the generation of the consortium budget in which they participate.
- Prepare periodic financial statements (all financial information is prepared by a certified public accountant)
- Invoice member companies for annual fees, disbursements, special assessments, and other expenses
- Maintain consortium funds in a separate bank account
- Collect and distribute fees
- Conduct annual audits
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