Case Studies

Marketplace innovation delivers delegated procurement to keep Fieldfisher running during the pandemic

he marketplace enabled the procurement team to set employee spend limits and curate a bespoke catalogue hat only Fieldfisher employees could access, including monitors, chairs, and keyboards.

Probrand IT Support Inspires Confidence at Surveyor Cullum Morris Powles

Emma White has a difficult job on her hands. As PA to the busy founders of quantity surveyor Cullum Morris Powles (CMP), her daily workload was busy enough. To compound matters, all the company’s IT problems land at her door.

Probrand Engineers a Smooth Move for Sale Rugby Club with a site move, IT support and managed security services

Founded in 1861 as Sale Football Club, Sale Sharks is a professional rugby union club based in Greater Manchester. It is one of the oldest English rugby clubs and currently plays at the AJ Bell Stadium in Manchester, which has a capacity of 12,000.

Probrand Pursues Excellence in Healthcare with Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Linda was impressed with Probrand’s professionalism in sourcing and supplying the products that it prompted her to contact Probrand for support with a sensitive procurement problem.

Digital Technology and IT Services Support: Experts in the digital transformation of healthcare services

Experts in the digital transformation of healthcare services.

Midland Heart streamlines procurement with Probrand

A Midlands-based housing association, Midland Heart manages more than 33,000 affordable homes on behalf of 70,000 customers. Its IT team, which includes a team of 8 technical analysts and Technical Service Team Leader Rob Cross, supports more than 1,600 staff who manage this operation.

Reliance Precision streamlines procurement with the Probrand Marketplace

Reliance Precision is a specialist engineering company providing custom-built, high reliability, precision instrumentation to customers from a range of global markets. The procurement team is responsible for purchasing IT equipment which supports approximately 250 users located across two main sites.

The 2gether NHS Foundation Trust – remote access solution

The 2gether NHS Foundation Trust is the main provider of mental and social healthcare in Gloucestershire. The organisation operates out of 99 sites and is split into five clinical Strategic Service Units, employing about 2,000 staff who deliver services to more than 570,000 unique individuals.

Coffee Republic brews success with integrated cloud and on-premises infrastructure

Within the first two months Coffee Republic recognised the considerable impact of Probrand’s marketplace, saving nearly a quarter of normal day- to-day operating time and 5% of the normal monthly spend on IT products.

Mears Group streamlines IT
procurement with Probrand Marketplace

Gaining access to lower IT product prices was Mears Group’s initial concern but the procurement team has found several additional benefits from using the Probrand Marketplace.

D-Link provides peace of mind at Heathfield

Network manager Lee Geering turned to Probrand, a UK leader in end-to-end IT provision and a trusted partner with whom the college has enjoyed a nine and a half year relationship.

District Council delivers better services from the desktop for less

Large District Council providing hundreds of services from multiple sites with a network of 80 servers supporting over 250 end users.

MO Holdings upgrades IT infrastructure

“This managed service has reduced the number of times our IT system impacts on the business increasing our uptime to over 99%. When we do have down time it is no longer hours, it’s minutes. "

Anne Sendall Group relocates and manages IT infrastructure

Founded by a former Midlands Business Woman of the Year, Anne Sendall Group specialises in the design and merchandising of show homes for major national and regional house builders.

The Works tames its infrastructure With Probrand's Outsourcing Service

Probrand had supplied The Works with hardware and software for 20 years, and the retailer quickly included it in a shortlist of three incumbent suppliers for its infrastructure service.

Giving the 'voice of nursing' secure, reliable and faultless remote network access

In 2010, a routine audit of the organisation's IT infrastructure identified that additional levels of authentication were required regarding remote access.

How The Children’s Family Trust secured their IT systems

The Children’s Family Trust was facing a number of IT challenges, following a period of rapid growth. This included supporting the flexible working requirements of staff across the country, while also ensuring all sensitive data relating to fostering was kept safe.

H2E engages Probrand for cyber security services

The Health 2 Employment Group comprises two distinct entities, OH One, the trading named corporate division, with a growing and enviable reputation for providing SEQOHS accredited occupational health and wellbeing services

Probrand Powers Whitetower Energy Transition With Seamless IT Services

Formerly known as Rolls Royce Power Development, Whitetower supports 40 + employees across its entire operation, most of which are technical and operations that operate and maintain the power plants.

Waingels College takes back control with Probrand's Marketplace

Probrand was able to source replacement technology and IT infrastructure at the lowest possible price by utilising the buying power of our digital marketplace..

Leicester Grammar achieves seamless infrastructure upgrade

The school needed to replace its virtual server and storage infrastructure. The eight year-old environment ran 14 VMware virtual hosts on Dell PowerEdge servers and a Dell MD3200 storage array. It was coming to the end of its life, explains IT manager James.

Arden University deliver a high-quality learning experience with Probrand

Arden University is a higher education institution with approximately 10,000 students. It focuses on providing access to flexible learning for ambitious students of all ages around the world and provides a mixture of distance (online) and on-campus teaching services at five UK sites and one in Berlin.

Westfield College shaves days off procurement time with Probrand's Marketplace

The procurement process for IT equipment at Westfield Arts College had become a frustrating, time consuming process.

Platform Housing adopts Probrand Marketplace to streamline IT procurement

The Midlands-based housing association, which owns and manages over 47,000 homes, has adopted the platform as part of a move to digitalise procurement processes, saving time and money compared with traditional ways of working.