PASS®
Precision Approach Selection Services
Split Rock assists
utilities with their decision making utilizing our PASS®
Product and Service Selection Methodology.
Historically these
decisions are either product based or program based decisions.
Product based decisions generally start with multiple
vendors/products with the goal of determining the
vendor/product that best fits the utility’s needs or
requirements. Program based decisions are those decisions which
are based on selecting a number of projects within a given
budget. The result is a selection that provides the greatest
benefit for the least cost.
Split Rock uses a
hierarchical approach using weights and derived ratios to assist
utilities in making these decisions. This methodology maximizes
the extent to which the experience and knowledge of the
utility’s own employees influences the outcome instead of
decisions based on least-cost or feel-good criteria.
Additionally, this approach makes “trade-off” decisions easier
and more transparent. For example, least-cost typically ignores
benefits that may be accrued for incremental cost and feel-good
decisions lack the rigor and objective results that provide
comfort that the best solution was actually selected.
Split Rock has
academically studied and incorporated this hierarchical approach
which we call our PASS® methodology and have
successfully deployed it at utilities in the US and the Caribbean.