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Managed IT support

Managed IT support that fixes things before you notice them.

Unlimited help for your team, continuous monitoring for your kit, and a named group of engineers who know your setup, for one predictable cost per user, per month.

Service desk
8am to 6pm, Mon to Fri
Monitoring
24/7, every day
Critical response
Within 15 minutes
On-site
Included in our area
SLA last 30 days
98% on target
The problem

You shouldn’t have to manage your IT company.

The most common thing we hear from businesses about to switch is not that their provider is bad at fixing things. It is that nothing happens unless somebody chases, and the person doing the chasing has a day job.

Managed IT support moves the responsibility to us. Your team gets unlimited help when they need it. Behind that, we watch every device, apply updates on a schedule, check that backups actually restore and keep a written record of everything you own. You get one predictable cost and a quarterly conversation about what is coming next.

What’s included

Everything below is in the monthly fee.

No per-ticket charges, no travel charges within our area, and no bill for the work you never see.

  • Unlimited remote support

    Phone, email or portal, from engineers in Horsham. No hour bundles and no reason for anyone to put up with something broken.

  • On-site engineers

    When it can’t be fixed remotely, someone comes out. Included, not billed by the hour plus mileage.

  • 24/7 monitoring

    Servers, laptops, firewalls, switches and access points watched continuously. Alerts open tickets on their own.

  • Patch management

    Windows, macOS and third-party applications updated on a tested schedule, with a report of what is compliant.

  • Microsoft 365 administration

    Users, licences, mailboxes, groups and permissions, with the same security standards applied to every tenant.

  • Starters and leavers

    Accounts, mailbox, licence, laptop, phone extension and SIM set up or shut off as one logged process.

  • Documentation

    Every device, licence, circuit and admin login recorded and kept current. It is yours if you ever leave.

  • Supplier management

    We deal with your line provider, software vendors and printer company so your team doesn’t have to.

  • Client portal

    Live tickets, assets, documents and call reporting, available to you at any time.

  • Quarterly business review

    Spend, risk, ageing kit and what is coming up, with the numbers to back it up.

Service levels

Response times we write into the contract.

Priority is set by business impact, not by who shouted loudest. Every ticket is measured, and the numbers go into your quarterly review whether they flatter us or not.

PriorityWhat it meansFirst responseTarget resolution
P1 CriticalA site or business-critical system is down15 minutes4 working hours
P2 HighA team is blocked, or one person can’t work at all30 minutes8 working hours
P3 NormalOne person affected, with a workaround2 working hours2 working days
P4 RequestNew starter, change, question or advice4 working hours5 working days

Service hours are 8am to 6pm, Monday to Friday. Out-of-hours cover is available for sites that run longer.

Behind the helpdesk

The work you never get an email about.

On a typical managed account, a large share of tickets are never raised by a person. Monitoring raises them, an engineer works them, and they are closed before anyone in the office knew there was anything to know. You see the pattern in your quarterly review rather than the noise every day.

Illustration of the weekly summary in your portal.

Onboarding

Your first month with us.

  1. Review and quote

    We learn how the business works, then send a proposal with the price, inclusions and exclusions on one page.

    Days 1 to 3
  2. Discovery

    We audit and document the estate: devices, licences, circuits, admin access, contracts and renewal dates.

    Weeks 1 to 2
  3. Deploy

    Monitoring, security and backup roll out, mostly out of hours. Your team meets the engineers on a short call.

    Week 3
  4. Stabilise

    We work through the known issues, then start on the improvement plan from the review.

    Week 4 onwards

“Like most business[es] of today we have a huge reliance on our IT systems… Having a fixed price service contract helps me budget for IT throughout the year.”

J. NugentHorsham
Common questions

Questions we get asked

What is managed IT support?

Managed IT support is a fixed monthly service in which an IT provider takes responsibility for keeping a business’s IT running. It combines unlimited help for staff with the background work that prevents problems: 24/7 monitoring, patching, backup checks, security and documentation.

Is support really unlimited?

Yes. Day-to-day support, incidents and requests are covered by the monthly fee with no ticket caps or hour bundles. Project work such as office moves, migrations and new site builds is scoped and quoted separately, so you always know the cost before anything starts.

We already have an in-house IT person. Does this still work?

Yes, that is co-managed IT. We usually take the monitoring, security tooling, out-of-hours cover and escalation, while your person keeps the relationships and the day-to-day.

How do you handle the handover from our current provider?

We do the chasing. We request admin access, documentation, licences and domain control, and where something is missing we rebuild it from the estate itself. Nothing is switched off until the replacement is proven. There is more in our switching guide.

Do you charge for travel?

Not within Sussex, Surrey and London. On-site visits in our area are part of the contract.

What is the minimum contract?

Twelve months for fully managed support. Co-managed arrangements can run on shorter terms.

Do you support Macs?

Yes. Mixed Windows and macOS fleets are normal for us, and both are monitored, patched and managed through the same platform.

Ready to stop chasing your IT provider?

Book a twenty-minute review. We will look at what you have, tell you what we would change first, and quote properly.

Book an IT reviewCall 01403 888171Horsham, Monday to Friday 8am to 6pm