IT Procurement Consulting
Strategic IT Procurement for Cost-Efficiency and Value
Procurement of IT solutions and services is complex, with risks of overspending, vendor lock-in, and misaligned contracts. Saros Consulting offers independent IT procurement advisory, helping you navigate the multitude of vendors, distil complex licensing, optimise purchasing processes, and secure agreements that align with your long-term goals.
Designing supplier management frameworks that ensure accountability, performance, and collaboration
Vendor Selection and Evaluation
Choosing the right technology vendors from a crowded market can be overwhelming, leading to suboptimal decisions or vendor lock-in. Saros Consulting provides independent guidance on evaluating vendors and solutions based on your specific needs. We help you define selection criteria, conduct due diligence, and manage competitive RFP processes to ensure you choose vendors that align with your objectives without hidden biases.
Contract Negotiation and Management
Many organisations struggle with unfavourable IT contracts due to complex terms and licensing agreements, hidden costs and clauses, and rigid conditions. Saros Consulting advises on structuring and negotiating contracts that offer flexibility, transparency, and value. We help you secure agreements that mitigate risks, protect against vendor lock-in, and provide scalability, ensuring your contracts are sustainable and aligned with your future business needs.
Cost Control and Budget Management
IT procurement is often plagued by budget overruns and unexpected expenses. Without strategic planning, organisations can end up overpaying for solutions or committing to unnecessary purchases. Saros Consulting assists you in developing procurement strategies that optimise spending while balancing quality and performance. We advise on total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis, lifecycle management, and spend forecasting to ensure your IT investments deliver value without exceeding budget limits.
Managing Supplier Relationships
Effective supplier management is essential for getting the most out of your IT investments, yet many organisations struggle to maintain consistent relationships or enforce SLAs. Saros Consulting helps you design supplier management frameworks that ensure accountability, performance, and collaboration. We provide strategic advice on managing multi-vendor environments, monitoring contract compliance, and optimising supplier performance to maximise service quality and minimise risks.
How We Can Help You
Strategic IT procurement is key to managing costs while securing solutions that drive business success. Saros Consulting offers vendor-independent advice on optimising procurement processes, securing favourable agreements, and managing supplier relationships, ensuring that your IT investments are both cost-effective and strategically aligned.
Case Study
Certa
Maximising Efficiency in the Energy Sector
One of Ireland’s largest energy companies was going through transformational change through the confluence of numerous energy brands and product diversification. This transformation has resulted in several large projects key to strategic success as well as numerous operational improvement initiatives driving business efficiencies. Through the process of rebranding, the management team recognised the need to establish project management as a practice to enable a more structured approach to managing multiple projects simultaneously as the organisation integrates and grows.
Case Study
Certa
Low Project Management Maturity Level
With the increased number of strategic and operational projects, several key challenges were identified, this included visibility of total capacity versus demand of key resources, consistency in project execution processes, alignment of projects to strategic priorities, effective project planning, control and reporting, and levels of project management knowledge / skills within the business.
Saros Consulting was engaged to assist address these challenges and embed project management as a practice through developing a project delivery capability that aligns projects with corporate strategy through an effective execution lifecycle.
Case Study
Certa
Low Project Management Maturity Level
With the discipline of Project Management being relatively new to the organisation, we focused on implementing the basic elements of a sound project management practice, some of which included: Determining the maturity of existing project management practices within the business and the unique characteristics of the organisation in relation to managing change. Creating a project management framework based on the organisation’s project management maturity, to act as a guide to project decisions and enable a consistent approach to project prioritisation, planning and execution. Introducing a fit-for-purpose project governance structure to provide direction, make decisions and ensure projects are visible and routinely reviewed. Establishing a Project Office to manage the PM processes, tools and templates, and provide support to the project governance structures. Working collaboratively with the leadership team in reviewing, aligning and prioritising projects to strategic objectives to ensure teams work on projects that move the organisation forward. Continuously engaging the leadership team to ensure active and visible sponsorship of the project management practices.
Case Study
Certa
Project Success
Saros approach led to project success with the following results: Enhanced visibility of capacity and demand, enabling improved prioritisation of projects. Successful implementation of a fit-for-purpose project management framework and project management tool. Establishment of a Project Management Office. Successful delivery of several post-merger integration projects. Increased Project Management knowledge and skills across the business. Improved planning, execution and control of projects. Significant increase in the utilisation of the project management framework and project management tool among management teams.
