Buying Technology

Text Box: Jamieson Associates offers skills and resources to support clients through periods of major technology change that often require particular skills not present or rare in an organization.
The need for key external resource is especially true in major outsources where defining the requirement, managing the procurement process and negotiation a long lasting contract can be a heavy drain on a managers time. Often staff transfers are involved, making it difficult for in-house staff to fully engage in the process, or the services required are technically complex or transcend the organisation.
Adopting an outsource approach to the supply of technology is also a common way of consolidating IT costs during mergers or organisational change, a period when staff may be more focused on day to day operations. The use of external skills during a merger or acquisition quickly achieves the consolidation goals demanded by shareholders and management.
Jamieson Associates provides the peak load skills and resources in this environment, achieving change through the speeding procurement of technology outsources in the following areas:

Text Box: ¨ Voice and data networking, both national and global;
¨ Desktop procurement and support services;
¨ Help desk services;
¨ Consultancy and application development;
¨ Application support services;
¨ Off-shore and Near-shore outsource;
¨ Large, complex single source out-sources.

Text Box: ¨ Energy, Oil and Gas;
¨ Retail and Investment Banking;
¨ Life & Pensions;
¨ Travel & Transport;
¨ Telecoms;
¨ Mergers and Acquisitions.

Text Box: ¨ Defining procurement strategy;
¨ Developing and agreeing scope and services;
¨ Gathering data and technical strategies;
¨ Developing tender documentation;
¨ Building markets and short-lists;
¨ Managing procurement process;
¨ Formal assessments and recommendations.
¨ Contract Negotiation