ServiceManaged IT, recurring
Environment50 users · 68 endpoints
Bids collected3 of 4 invited
Turnaround2 business days
Three bids for your IT support, on one sheet.
One MSP quotes per user. The next quotes per device. The third quotes a flat rate and counts your servers separately. None of them price the same scope, and the cheapest number on the page is almost never the cheapest contract. Comparing the proposals is the actual work — so we do it, and hand you the result in one set of units.
What you are looking at
A real tabulation, filled in. Below is the format your bids come back in — same line items, same units, side by side.
Bid tabulation — samplePrepared 2 days after request
| Line item | Bidder ANorthlake Technology Group | Bidder BHarbor Point IT | Bidder CVantage Managed Services |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly price | $6,400 | $7,100 | $5,250Low bid |
| Endpoints covered | 68 of 68 | 68 of 68 | 52 of 68Servers excluded |
| Cost per endpoint | $94 | $104 | $101 |
| After-hours support | 24/7 included | 24/7 included | Billed at $185/hr |
| Backup & recovery | Included | Included | Quoted separately |
| Security tooling | EDR + 24/7 SOC | EDR + SOC + compliance | EDR only |
| Onboarding fee | $0 | $2,500 | $4,800 |
| Term | 36 months | 24 months | 36 months |
Illustrative figures. Your tabulation is built from bids by providers that serve your area, your headcount, and your compliance profile.
Bidder C is $1,150 a month cheaper on the headline and leaves 16 servers uncovered. Normalized per endpoint it is more expensive than Bidder A, backup is quoted on top, and every after-hours incident bills at $185 an hour against a 36-month term. This is the line the tabulation exists to surface.
Process
What happens after you send the request.
01
You describe the environment once
Headcount, endpoints, servers, what already lives in the cloud, and any compliance obligation. Two minutes.
02
We invite three or four providers
MSPs that work your area, your company size, and your regulatory profile. Never more than four, so nobody is cold-calling you.
03
We normalize what comes back
Per-user, per-device, and flat-rate bids all converted to a common cost per endpoint, with every carve-out and exclusion flagged.
04
You get the tabulation
One sheet, with contacts. Take the discovery calls you want, ignore the rest. Nothing is owed either way.
Coverage
Contracts that run years, not tickets that run hours.
Collecting three bids is only worth the effort when the decision is expensive, technical, and hard to reverse. That is the line we work on.
Backup & disaster recoveryBCDR appliances, offsite replicationQueued
Network & connectivitySD-WAN, firewalls, multi-site circuitsQueued
VoIP & business phoneHosted PBX, contact centre, portingQueued
Hardware procurementRefresh cycles, leasing, device-as-a-serviceQueued
Request — form CQ-1
Describe the environment.
The more exact you are here, the tighter the bids come back, and the fewer discovery calls you sit through with providers who were never going to fit your size or your compliance profile.
If fewer than three providers cover your area and headcount, we will tell you that instead of padding the sheet.
For managed service providers
You are bidding against two MSPs, not twelve.
Every request here is a business that has already decided to look, with its headcount, endpoint count, and compliance profile written down. You see the environment before you decide whether to bid at all — and you are not paying for a cold appointment that turns out to be twelve users on consumer hardware.
You pay forQualified requests only
MSPs per request3–4 maximum
TerritoryExclusivity available
CommitmentMonth to month
Out-of-profile requestsCredited back