IT Procurement

Want to simplify technology purchasing?

You can purchase your own IT equipment, but it’s not easy. Make one wrong selection on a complex order form, and suddenly you have a PC with known disk drive failure issues, or a cloud solution that costs more than you wanted.

We manage your IT procurement

We look beyond the initial purchase to support and integration requirements. We’ll make sure your new equipment integrates with the old and fits into your business workflows and existing applications. We have strong relationships with Barracuda, Dell, Intuit, Lexmark, Microsoft and telecommunications providers. Take advantage of our stellar pricing and support.

What Is IT Procurement

IT procurement is essential to any business that uses information systems and equipment to drive processes, projects, and procedures. In fact, today almost every company implements different IT solutions and systems to plan and carry out operational and strategic processes.

Effective procurement can speed up project delivery, reduce project costs, and help mitigate risk. IT procurement involves a group of processes that identify strategic and business needs for IT, choosing the right solutions and executing the purchases themselves.

IT procurement should also be about identifying operational and strategic goals. This process should start with creating business requirements by engaging key stakeholders from IT, finance, and business. The IT procurement process should find out the information technology that can serve the business and continue with the best decisions about possible IT investments.

The end goal – in purchasing, it’s to arrange an organization’s expenditure and purchase products or services for the organization. In procurement, it’s to identify the organization’s needs and achieve the procurement of those needs.

Assessment of products/services – purchasing focuses more on the price rather than the value, while procurement focuses more on the value rather than the cost.
Time of deployment – purchasing gets involved when it’s time to buy products and services, while procurements is involved in the end-to-end processes and activities for acquiring all necessary products and services.

Tasks involved – purchasing involves ordering, expediting, and paying, while procurement involves everything from identifying needs to sourcing, negotiating, contract closure, and recordkeeping.

Dealing with suppliers – purchasing is not focused on developing or strengthening vendor relations, but on making efficient transactions. Procurement, on the other hand, is focused on developing and strengthening long-term relationships with suppliers.