IT Procurement
Procurement
The cheapest quote is rarely the lowest cost
A laptop bought on price arrives with consumer firmware, the wrong warranty tier and no imaging, then consumes half a day of setup and fails outside a business support window. Procurement done properly counts the configuration, the warranty and the replacement cycle, not just the sticker.
01
Specify
Requirements matched to the actual workload. Enough machine for the job and its expected life, without paying for capability nobody will use.
02
Source
Business channel pricing and the right warranty tier, with realistic lead times rather than an optimistic date.
03
Deploy
Imaged, joined, encrypted, patched and monitored before it reaches the user. The machine arrives working.
04
Retire
Wiped to standard with a certificate of destruction where required, then traded in or disposed of responsibly.
Why buy through your IT provider
Because the party supporting the equipment should be the party that chose it. When procurement and support sit with the same provider, there is no argument about whether a fault is hardware or configuration, and no warranty claim that falls between two companies.
Standardized builds
A small set of known models rather than whatever was on offer, which makes support, spares and imaging predictable.
Warranty that matches the risk
Next business day on-site for anything a person cannot work without. Consumer return-to-base is not a business warranty.
Asset register maintained
What you own, where it is, when it was bought and when its warranty ends, kept current rather than reconstructed annually.
Planned refresh
Replacement scheduled and budgeted on a cycle, so machines are retired before they start costing support hours.
What we source
Workstations and laptops
Business lines with manageable firmware, proper warranty options and predictable component availability.
Servers and storage
Specified against real capacity and growth rather than a template, with support terms that match their role.
Network equipment
Firewalls, switches and wireless sized for the building and the headcount, not the square footage alone.
Software licensing
Microsoft 365, operating systems and line of business applications, correctly tiered and tracked against actual users.
Peripherals
Monitors, docking, printing and conferencing, chosen to work with the builds you already run.
Renewals
Warranties, subscriptions and support contracts tracked so none of them lapse quietly in the background.
Due a hardware refresh?
We can review what you are running, what is out of warranty, and what replacing it properly would cost over the next three years.
