Relationships Between Service Providers

Service providers may arrange contractual relationships with other service providers to provide additional services, e.g., an energy service provider may work with a specific meter data management agency to gather and report interval meter read data.

The system does nothing special to enforce or record these inter-relationships. Why? Because most service provider switches are received by notification records. Notification records indicate all the associated service providers. There is no need for the system to maintain the inter-service provider associations.