IDC UK
IDC Cloud Sourcing Advisory Service - Unlimited
Sourcing Advisory Service is a research and advisory service for technology procurement professionals. The service helps ensure buyers receive market leading prices for the services they are buying and supporting such as cloud.
Features
- Unlimited Deal Reviews
- Review your single-vendor deal and provide customised peer pricing data
- Provides a detailed financial review of deal
- Specific guidance on pricing versus peer group
- Unlimited 60-minute enquiries with IDC IT pricing team
- Quarterly Business Value Review
Benefits
- Ensure spend is optimised across technology portfolio
- Largest database of peer deals and usage data
- Written deliverables so clients can utilise results in vendor negotiations
- Concierge-level access to benchmarking data and market intelligence
- 100% objectivity on all engagements
- Helps you negotiate Software, Hardware, Maintenance and Service contracts
Pricing
£75,000 a unit a year
Service documents
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Framework
G-Cloud 14
Service ID
4 9 0 6 0 6 1 5 2 8 3 3 9 4 3
Contact
IDC UK
Jeremy Harcup
Telephone: 07973 85 8685
Email: jeremy.harcup@idc.com
Planning
- Planning service
- Yes
- How the planning service works
- We support cost effective technology acquisition. Buyers can access our pricing analysts to answer specific queries.
- Planning service works with specific services
- No
Training
- Training service provided
- No
Setup and migration
- Setup or migration service available
- Yes
- How the setup or migration service works
- We help buyers assess costs of cloud services.
- Setup or migration service is for specific cloud services
- No
Quality assurance and performance testing
- Quality assurance and performance testing service
- No
Security testing
- Security services
- Yes
- Security services type
- Security strategy
Ongoing support
- Ongoing support service
- No
Service scope
- Service constraints
- No known constraints
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Email or online ticketing
- Support response times
- We aim to respond to questions within 24 hours within business hours in UK.
- User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- No
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
- Web chat support
- No
- Support levels
- We provide support through enquiries with our analyst team. Queries are managed by a customer relationship manager who will aim to respond within 24 hours to answer the question, schedule an enquiry or advise if we are unable to assist with this topic.
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Not a reseller
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Staff screening not performed
- Government security clearance
- Up to Developed Vetting (DV)
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- No
- ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Cyber essentials
- No
- Cyber essentials plus
- No
- Other security certifications
- No
Social Value
- Social Value
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Social Value
- Fighting climate change
- Wellbeing
Fighting climate change
Our support to clients, particularly in carbon-heavy industries, enables them to operate more efficiently and reduce their carbon footprint. Furthermore, in the delivery of this service, we endeavor to reduce unneeded travel through the use of video meetings and other collaboration technologies.Wellbeing
IDC supports the wellbeing of all of its employees and has a number of programs and resources available to employees to help strike a healthy balance between work and life outside of work, to maintain a healthy lifestyle, and to manage stress and psychological problems.
Pricing
- Price
- £75,000 a unit a year
- Discount for educational organisations
- No
Service documents
Request an accessible format
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format,
email the supplier at jeremy.harcup@idc.com.
Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.