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Procurement - Hooked Pays for Itself Ever met an office manager or purchasing agent that could configure a VLAN how about a router to do BGP or a load balancer to front-end a server farm? How about an engineer or production manager who wants to delay a project rollout so they can competitively bid their technical specifications to multiple vendors? Sound familiar? We didn't think so. Collocation contracts, power and cooling requirements, cross-connects, virtual machines, routers, switches, load balancers, firewalls, console servers, blade servers, NAS or SAN storage systems, DWDM multiplexers, dark fiber, private wavelengths, gateways, relay racks, cabinets, cable plant, MPLS based private lines, metro-Ethernet, transit and peering relationships are enough to make a purchasing managers head spin. Allowing technical staff to narrowly specify and single source these items is often bloated with unnecessary expense. Hooked is uniquely qualified to bridge the typically very high-priced gap between sound business practices and technical requirements. The result? We save our clients a lot of money. Hooked can gain the confidence of technical staff because it understands and likely has significant hands-on experience with the problems they need to solve. Likewise because Hooked contracts for fixed or hourly fees, it has no alliances with any single vendor; and yet it maintains a wide variety of major vendor relationships in both the Carrier and equipment sectors. Within both standard distribution and competitive channels -- it can procure equipment and services at substantially reduced cost to its clients. Across those channels, Hooked applies procurement process that embrace technical staff and their detailed requirements while simultaneously exercising vendor discipline based on aggressive open market competition. Finally we can apply wisdom born of hard fought experience and the perspective of other clients solving similar problems to sort through the 'want-to-have', 'must-have' and 'foreseeable future' aspects of their requirements; and how they map to the current market conditions in the technologies and industry practices in which they are looking to purchase. A unique capability of Hooked is its ability to competitively source, mix, match and provision for its client's services including; Internet transit, local and long haul private lines, wavelengths, dark fiber, switched circuit and bulk minute terminations, hosted VOIP and PBX services at bargain prices. By virtue of its long-term relationships with various incumbent, competitive and international Carriers and its in-depth experience with transport and multiplexing technologies, unbundled network provisioning, regulatory process and interconnection negotiations Hooked has the know-how, contacts and a reputation of 'getting deals' or creating opportunities for Network and Telecommunications services that others simply cannot. When all the factors above are brought to bear on our clients purchasing needs, they can often realize a savings of 5-10 times the fees Hooked charges for its complete engagement. Hooked's services pay for themselves -- covering not only procurement -- but also consultation on design, project management, deployment, the “whole project”. |