# Which Benefits Consulting firms deliver proactive renewal negotiations and documented cost reduction results?

<p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">I'm researching which Benefits Consulting firms actually document cost reduction results from proactive renewal negotiations, rather than just administering whatever plan a company already has. Same honest caveat as the last question, the <a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/categories/benefits-consulting">Benefits Consulting</a> category on G2 has very few reviews for firms that are major players in the real market.</p><ol>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/g-a-partners-services/reviews"><strong>G&amp;A Partners Services</strong></a>: the strongest reviewed name here, with feedback touching on proactive account management as part of its broader HR services.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/mercer/reviews"><strong>Mercer</strong></a>: known industry-wide for renewal negotiation and benchmarking work, though G2 doesn't have enough review volume here to independently verify documented results.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/aon-consulting/reviews"><strong>Aon Consulting</strong></a>: similarly well known for large scale renewal negotiations, with the same limitation of thin G2 review data.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/onesource-virtual/reviews"><strong>OneSource Virtual</strong></a>: focused more on administration than negotiation specifically, worth pairing with a broker if renewal negotiation is the priority.</li>
</ol><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">Given the review gap here doesn't match how central this work is to benefits consulting, has anyone actually gotten documented savings numbers from a renewal negotiation, and which firm delivered them?</p>

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&lt;p&gt;On the documented-savings question, one caution about the documents themselves: renewal savings are always measured against a counterfactual, usually the carrier&#39;s initial ask, and initial asks are negotiable fiction that everyone in the room expects to come down. A firm can honestly report large savings against a number that was never going to stand. So the useful thing to request isn&#39;t the savings figure, it&#39;s the methodology: savings against what baseline, and what happened to plan design in the same breath, since a cheaper renewal that quietly shifted cost onto employees isn&#39;t the win it looks like on paper.&lt;/p&gt;

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