How Turner Construction saved hundreds of hours per year while making contract risk reviews more consistent and effective — with Provision

Turner Construction

The Challenge

Seeking more efficient, consistent, and collaborative reviews

Turner Construction is a company based in New York City that delivers a diverse range of large and complex construction projects across the globe.

They complete over 1,500 projects per year across $17 billion of construction, with an experienced and trained staff of 11,000 employees.

Over the last year they realized their method for reviewing contracts was starting to fail them.

“We were receiving contracts with increased complexity,” said Lisa Hickerson, Manager of Business Development for Turner’s projects in the New York marketplace. “At the same time we had to turn them around faster — all while mitigating as many risks as possible.”

They followed a standard manual method to review and revise the contracts they received. That meant:

Reading and reviewing each contract line-by-line
Redlining Word documents to suggest revisions
Sharing files via email, messaging, and Salesforce
Tracking contracts, risks, and projects in Excel

In addition, multiple team members with different backgrounds and skill sets reviewed each contract, and some were more efficient than others.

The whole process was:

Slow: Reading a contract for the first time took an average of three to four hours, followed by further redundant reviews and revisions.
Siloed: There was limited collaboration between the different teams, employees, and workflows involved in reviewing each contract.
Inconsistent: It was difficult to standardize their process across teams and across different reviewers and stages, like pre-qualification and RFP responses.

“We wanted to be more efficient and consistent, and to increase accuracy and collaboration across the business development team,” said Lisa. “Our teams just weren’t equipped to find and mitigate risks as effectively as we would like, so we looked for a solution to automate our contract risk reviews.”

That search led to Provision.

The Solution

Why Turner chose Provision

Turner reviewed multiple solutions, before they found Provision through LinkedIn. They took a discovery call, where Provision dug into their pain points and goals, and offered a demonstration that included the tool’s AI-driven risk reviews and customizable workflows and checklists.

Ultimately, they chose Provision because it was the best option to:

Automate risk identification in their contracts
Tell them what risks their contracts had and what preferred terms were
Standardize their workflows across teams and employees
Integrate with their existing processes
Improve collaboration across teams and functions

“We saw that Provision would let all of our team members go through contracts efficiently,” Lisa explained. “We knew we could go through contracts faster, only focus on the big issues that needed attention, and put that time back into the project.”

Turner’s New Process

A systematic, streamlined way to manage contract risks

Turner worked with Provision to integrate the tool into their workflows. This took place over a few steps, with white-glove support from Provision.

Initial Engagement. Provision demonstrated their tool could solve major pain points for Turner’s business development.
Customization and Testing. Provision tailored its tool for Turner, and created custom checklists based on their contract review and legal requirements.
Onboarding and Training. Provision trained Turner’s teams on the tool’s risk reviews, chat functions, and collaboration features.
Implementation. Provision integrated Turner’s custom checklist into the tool, and worked with a power user to refine its outputs.
Ongoing Improvement. Provision and Turner conduct quarterly business reviews to capture feedback and incorporate it into the tool.

By using Provision, Turner has gained powerful new features, including:

Automated risk reviews. Provision scans their contracts and related documents to find risks, discrepancies, and other potential issues.
Custom Checklists. Provision scans for both general risks, and the specific risks that Turner cares about based on their past processes.
Standardized Risk Reviews. Provision always checks every contract for the same issues, creating consistency no matter who leads the review.
Increased Collaboration. Provision allows every user to review and contribute comments to contracts all within the same document.
User-Friendly Navigation. Provision guides Turner’s users from risk to risk, and lets them search for the sections and issues they’re looking for.

In a short amount of time, Provision helped Turner transform their contract risk reviews, and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their teams.

“We’ve streamlined our process, from inputting a document to finalizing revisions,” said Lisa. “We can move through terms quicker, better understand what each of them mean, and prioritize what needs our attention.”

Turner’s ROI

Hundreds of hours saved per year

Using Provision, Turner has generated some big, measurable results:

Contracts reviewed in 30 minutes instead of 3–4 hours
800+ hours saved per year across 200 contract reviews
$100,000+ per year saved from automating initial reviews

Yet the quantifiable results only tell part of the story.

Using Provision, Turner has also been able to:

Focus on their big risks, and not get drowned in small, standard issues
Identify terms that have allowed them to negotiate better deals
Put more time into positioning themselves to win a contract

Today, Provision is used across Business Development and legal at Turner’s New York offices. They are looking to expand Provision with more workflows, further refined checklists, and enhanced integrations with tools like Salesforce.

As Lisa at Turner summarizes:

“With Provision we’ve reduced contract review times from three to four hours, to just thirty minutes. This has reclaimed hundreds of hours each year, which lets us focus on what matters most — refining our strategies and better positioning ourselves to win jobs.”

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