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Grow Your TPI Business Beyond Procurement

Simplify Procurement. Expand Your Proposition. Create New Revenue Opportunities.

SMS helps TPIs, brokers and consultants win and manage energy procurement opportunities more efficiently while expanding their service offering through metering, data, bureau and low-carbon solutions.

Our technology, expertise and operational support help you deliver greater value to customers without increasing internal resource, allowing you to focus on what matters most - winning business, retaining customers and growing revenue.

Why Partner with SMS?

Energy procurement remains the foundation of most TPI businesses. But customers increasingly expect support beyond contract placement.

SMS helps you deliver procurement more efficiently while giving you access to additional services that strengthen customer relationships, increase customer lifetime value and create new commercial opportunities.

As a trusted partner behind your TPI customer proposition, SMS brings the scale, operational capability and specialist expertise to help you extend customer value with confidence.

8 million

metering and data assets under ownership and management.

30 years’ experience

supporting the UK’s smart energy and utility infrastructure.

ISO-accredited operations

supporting quality, security and environmental management standards.

£25 million

identified or recovered for clients in 2025 through energy bureau, bill validation and cost assurance activity.

15+ years

of energy advisory experience helping customers improve energy performance and commercial outcomes

Multi-utility capability

spanning electricity, gas, water, data, bureau and low carbon services.

With SMS, you can:

  • Simplify and accelerate energy procurement activities.
  • Reduce operational and administrative workload.
  • Access MOP and DCDA contracting through a single platform.
  • Expand your proposition beyond procurement.
  • Create new revenue opportunities from complementary energy services.
  • Improve customer retention through ongoing engagement.
  • Access specialist expertise without building additional resource in-house.
  • Outsource service delivery while keeping customer relationships at the centre.
  • Focus more time on revenue generation and customer acquisition.

SMS Broker Portal

Make Energy Procurement Easier

The SMS Broker Portal is designed specifically for TPIs, brokers and consultants looking to streamline procurement and associated MOP/DCDA contracting processes.

By bringing multiple activities into a single platform, the portal helps reduce administration, speed up quote delivery and improve operational efficiency.


Key Benefits for TPIs

  • Energy procurement and MOP/DCDA contracting in one system.
  • Access to multiple suppliers through a single quote journey.
  • Access to multiple suppliers through a single quote journey.
  • Bulk MPxN upload functionality.
  • Integrated DocuSign workflows.
  • ECOES, RECCO and Companies House integration.
  • Faster onboarding and quote turnaround.
  • Reduced manual administration.
  • Improved contract management and visibility.

The Result

More time spent winning and managing customer relationships and less time spent on administrative processes.

Expand Your Proposition Beyond Procurement

Winning a procurement contract opens the door. Delivering ongoing value is what helps strengthen customer retention and grow account value over time.

SMS enables TPIs to offer a broader range of services without the cost and complexity of building specialist delivery capability internally.


Create New Revenue Opportunities

Access Specialist Metering & Data Capability

Metering, MOP, DCDA & Gas AMR Services

Metering and data sit at the heart of effective energy management. They give customers the visibility they need to understand consumption, manage their portfolio and make better decisions, while enabling the wider services that sit around procurement, bureau, reporting and low-carbon planning.

For TPIs, this is more than a support service. Metering, MOP, DCDA and data services create a practical revenue-generating opportunity that strengthens your customer proposition, increases engagement beyond renewal cycles and helps customers achieve greater insight from their energy data.


Services

  • Electricity metering.
  • Gas metering.
  • Electricity Meter Data.
  • Smart Meter Data Access
  • Gas Meter Data.

Benefits for TPIs

  • Create an additional revenue stream from core metering and data services.
  • Help customers achieve greater data insight and portfolio visibility.
  • Support customers in managing their metering estate more effectively.
  • Unlock the data foundation needed for bureau, reporting, optimisation and low carbon services.
  • Strengthen customer relationships through ongoing service-led engagement.
  • Deliver specialist solutions without additional internal resource.
  • Differentiate your proposition from procurement-only competitors.

Energy Bureau & Bill Validation

Many TPIs recognise the value of bureau services but lack the internal resource to operate them effectively.

SMS can provide specialist support, helping you offer value-added services while maintaining focus on procurement and business development.

Services Include

  • Bill validation.
  • Cost assurance.
  • Invoice auditing.
  • Exception management.
  • Energy reporting.
  • Portfolio analysis.
  • Forecasting support.
  • Budget management.

Benefits for TPIs

  • Additional revenue opportunities.
  • Greater customer engagement between renewal cycles.
  • Improved customer retention.
  • Enhanced value proposition.
  • Reduced operational burden.

Customer Outcomes

  • Better billing accuracy.
  • Improved financial control.
  • Reduced risk of overpayment.
  • Greater confidence in energy spend.

Client Portal & Smart Energy Data

Turn Energy Data Into Ongoing Customer Value

Customers increasingly expect meaningful energy insight, not just procurement support.

SMS helps you provide customers with access to clear energy data, consumption visibility and actionable reporting through a secure online platform.


Features

  • Near real-time data visibility.
  • Consumption reporting.
  • Budget tracking.
  • Cost analysis.
  • Performance dashboards.
  • Invoice visibility.
  • Portfolio reporting.
  • Secure data management.

Benefits for TPIs

  • More informed customer conversations.
  • Stronger account management.
  • Increased engagement throughout the contract lifecycle.
  • Better visibility of customer opportunities.
  • Enhanced renewal discussions.

Low Carbon Solutions

Support Net Zero & Sustainability Conversations

Many customers are seeking practical routes towards decarbonisation, energy resilience and cost reduction.

SMS enables TPIs to participate in these discussions with confidence by providing access to specialist low-carbon expertise and delivery capability.


Solutions Include

  • Solar and on-site generation.
  • Battery energy storage.
  • Fleet electrification.
  • Low-carbon heating.
  • Energy resilience solutions.
  • Flexible funding models.
  • Net zero support.

Benefits for TPIs

  • Broaden your proposition into sustainability.
  • Access specialist expertise without building internal teams.
  • Create additional customer engagement opportunities.
  • Support long-term customer relationships.
  • Unlock new revenue streams.

Why TPIs Choose SMS

Reduce Procurement Administration

Streamline quoting, contracting and customer management through a single platform.

Focus on Revenue Growth

Spend less time on operational processes and more time winning and retaining customers.

Expand Your Service Offering

Access metering, data, bureau and low-carbon solutions through one trusted partner.

Retain Customers for Longer

Create ongoing engagement beyond procurement and renewal activity.

Access Expertise Without Additional Overhead

Leverage specialist capabilities without hiring, training or building internal delivery functions.

Protect Customer Relationships

SMS supports service delivery while allowing you to remain at the centre of the customer relationship.

A Flexible TPI Partnership Model

Every TPI operates differently.

Whether you need support with a specific customer opportunity, access to the Broker

Portal, specialist metering expertise, bureau services or a broader strategic partnership, SMS can provide the right level of support.


Our role is simple:

  • Help you win procurement opportunities.
  • Help you deliver greater value.
  • Help you create new revenue streams.
  • Help you strengthen customer retention.
  • Help you grow without increasing complexity.

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