Services
Services overview
Get options fast-then stay supported through renewals
Use Advisory as a bundled pre + post package (plan/procure → operate/renew). Use Consulting for paid, time-bound projects with defined deliverables.
Advisory Services
Our Advisory services are the quickest way to procure IT services. Advisory is bundled so outcomes don’t drop after signature: pre-implementation work gets you to the right decision, and post-implementation work protects performance, contracts, and renewals.
What’s Included?
Pre-Implementation: Plan & Procure
- Solution Design Support
- TCO analysis (includes pricing)
- Service & Vendor availability
- Technology & Vendor selection
- Contract review & negotiation support
Post-implementation: Operate & Renew
- Collaborative Vendor management & escalation
- Customer success & account management
- Contract & inventory management
- Renewal management & support
Consulting Services
Traditional per project based consulting services
RFI/RFQ/RFP toolkit & management
Roll out a successful RFx
- RFx Strategy + formation selection
- Requirement capture and scoping
- Vendor shortlist and market mapping
- RFx document creation
- Pricing Normalization model
- Bidder Q&A Management
- Response intake + compliance check
- Scoring framework + evaluation facilitation
- Commercial analysis
- Contract redline support
- Executive ready recommendation pack
- Award + hand off package
Cloud Cost Optimization & FinOps
Reduce Costs Quickly
- Cost baseline + spend anatomy
- Unit economics + KPI model
- Tagging+ allocation standards
- Waste identification
- Commitment strategy
- Rightsizing + scheduling program
- Storage & data transfer optimization
- Managed service cost review
- Forecasting + Budgeting
- Governance + Controls
- FinOps operation model
- Savings roadmap
- Training & Playbooks
Consulting – Migration & Cut over Management
Moves are hard, reduce the fallout
- Discovery + dependency mapping
- Target-state design validation
- Migration factory plan
- Cut over strategy
- Detailed Run books
- Data migration planning
- Network cut over coordination
- Security + compliance readiness
- Testing program
- Change management + comms
- Go-live command center
- Stabilization
- Decommission + Cost clean up
Consulting – PMO for Roll outs
Better Roll outs
- Program charter + scope control
- Integrated plan + timeline
- Governance cadence
- RAID log management
- Resource coordination
- Procurement + vendor coordination
- Standards + templates
- Quality gates
- Budget tracking + variance reporting
- Status reporting
- Stakeholder communications
- Operational hand off
- Post-launch review
Outcomes
Common Outcomes
Most teams don’t wake up wanting “colocation” or “WAN.” They want to reduce run-rate, expand capacity, improve resiliency, or speed procurement. Choose your goal and we’ll recommend the right solution mix and next step.
OUTCOME
Reduced Run Rate
We benchmark your current spend against live market pricing, consolidate overlapping services, and renegotiate contracts — so you keep the capacity you need at a lower monthly cost.
OUTCOME
Improved Resiliency
We design redundancy across providers and geographies, close single-points-of-failure in your infrastructure, and put failover and DR plans in place before you need them.
OUTCOME
Faster Procurement
We maintain pre-vetted provider shortlists and pricing baselines, cutting weeks of RFP cycles down to days so your team can move on implementation sooner.
Our Process
What to Expect
Our process is straight forward and we have the flexibility to join or exit the process wherever it makes sense for our clients.
01
Assess
We source the best solutions from multiple providers to ensure your IT environment is truly optimized.
02
Source
Our methodical approach to selecting services guarantees that you receive the most suitable options for your business.
03
Contracts
We are experts in negotiating contracts to secure the most favorable terms for your organization.
04
Implement
We are experts in negotiating contracts to secure the most favorable terms for your organization.
05
Operate & Renew
We are experts in negotiating contracts to secure the most favorable terms for your organization.
Source Services based on your Role
Explore our innovative features that pave the way for seamless IT solutions.
Finance
Our vendor-agnostic approach ensures impartial sourcing to meet your unique IT needs.
Procurement
Run a structured selection process to identify the best solutions for your organization.
IT & Security
We negotiate competitive terms on your behalf to maximize savings and value.
Testimonial
What Clients Are Saying
515 Engine saved me hours of conference calls, follow ups, face to face meetings and email responses in the course of our engagement.
Ed Fox – Mettel
I was impressed with your knowledge, recommendations, and that you were able to aid us both our current environment & planned expansion.
Dave Horowitz
Frequently Asked Questions
Advisory is designed for ongoing lifecycle support (sourcing + governance + renewals). Consulting is a paid, time-bound engagement with defined deliverables (RFx, migration PMO, FinOps).
Yes. We can support renewals, expansions, term reviews, benchmarking, and ongoing vendor governance—while still evaluating alternatives when it makes sense.
We can act as an escalation point and help drive accountability and resolution. Your internal teams remain the owners of operational change decisions; we help you get unstuck and keep vendors honest.
A short kickoff, current contracts/inventory if available, footprint and timeline, and your decision criteria. We can start small and expand coverage as needed.
It can do all three. The primary value is usually speed and risk reduction; cost improvements often follow from bench-marking, renewal discipline, and billing validation.
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