G.A.W. Associates Ltd.

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FM DUE DILIGENCE & AUDITS

G.A.W. Associates Ltd. has provided audit/due diligence consultancy services to the following equity investment and service provider companies:

· SITA

· Morgan Stanley Dean Witter (UK & USA)

· George Soros (USA)

· Goldman Sachs (UK)

· Capital Hill Investments (USA)

· Unisource Carrier Services (Europe)

· Mobikom (Cable & Wireless) (Bulgaria)

We have recently produced (about to be published) a CBT package which contains all the tools and checklists needed to manage an outsourcing/FM bid. It includes sections on:

· Bid management training

· Asset audit data collection

· SLA definition

· Contract schedule creation

· Risk management and

· Work package definitions

Please e-mail us for further details. info@gaw-associates.com

We perform technical, strategic, operational and general management assignments. We have helped to develop product and marketing/sales strategies for high technology companies (generally associated with the telecomms environment) as a result of our investigations.

We have delivered training associated with our findings and recommendations.

We have expertise in systems design, implementation, integration & testing.

Protocols and 'products' of which we have experience include IP, ATM, SDH, FR, TMN, ISDN, POTS, VoIP, Radio, GIS, JAVA, C, Unix, Linux, SDL, SQL, Windows, SAP, X.400, X.500, GENEVA (+ many other Customer Care & Billing Systems).

Methodologies we employ include PRINCE2, SSADM, RAD, METHOD1, SSW etc.

We have been involved with business modelling, regulatory negotiations and license applications.

G.A.W. Associates Ltd. actively uses associates (generally recognised throughout the industry as experts in their field) to extend the resources available. We maintain a substantial database of people we have worked with in the past, who know our standards and methods and who we can rely on to consistently delivery a quality analysis.

We tend to operate on a 'fire station' basis i.e. call at a moments notice and we will assemble a team to go anywhere and produce our reports in the shortest possible time (and cost). We aim to eliminate the technical risk from our clients business appraisal analysis.