Choosing an IT Supplier
Choosing an IT Supplier to provide your business with a range of software, hardware, website design or internet marketing services is always difficult for the small medium and corporate business owner.
A key ingredient when choosing a technology supplier to support your business apart from what they will charge is, commitment, loyalty, integrity, reliability and trust.
ICT Advisor.com can help you find suppliers of technology solutions for small businesses in Fife, Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, Ayrshire, Edinburgh and Glasgow, but are willing to come to help your business wherever you are located in Scotland.
Before choosing a supplier you need to document your requirements by preparing a specification document, which ICT Advisor.com can help prepare for you.
ICT Advisor.com business consultants are specialists in preparing specification documents. Whether its installing a PC Network, developing a website, putting together an online marketing strategy, seeking a software or database solution or mapping out a business process we can help.
Access our own specialist team of Business Consultants with over 30 years IT experience. We have the expertise to source potential suppliers either through tender or we can request information from reliable supplier sources across the UK.
For every project we can identify and contact a minimum of 3 suppliers or on request anything from 6-10 suppliers on your behalf that we know are able to deliver the solution you need for your budget.
We ensure that through our evalution process you are selecting the right supplier by taking into account a list of criteria such as:
- a track record of having implemented similar solutions
- quality, relevance and online marketing performance of sites when it comes to choosing web developers
- does the supplier understand your business at both the strategic and process levels
- does the suppliers tender response indicate they understood the specification brief
- Is the suppliers technical knowledge and expertise demonstrated in other successful projects
- is there confidence that the supplier is able to provide a solution that is scalable for the future
- does the suppliers cost of the proposed solution reflect value for money
When choosing an IT Supplier we set out a section is within our specification documents (titled as "Exceptions to requirements") where it states the tenderer must provide information on any clause, condition, amendment to the specification we prepare or any other qualification they may wish to make conditional to there offer.
CONTACT ICT ADVISOR BEFORE YOU ENGAGE WITH YOUR NEXT IT SUPPLIER