The technology decision library
Better questions.
Stronger requirements.
Clearer choices.
Practical tools for the conversations that shape your technology investment. Prepare a brief, question a proposal and understand the working relationship before you commit.
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The price is only part of the proposal.
One provider includes integration and onboarding. Another leaves them to your team. Both may describe the same solution, but they are offering different work.
A useful comparison makes scope, exclusions, assumptions and support visible before you weigh the price.
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From the first question to the handover.
Use these guides to prepare for a provider conversation or give your internal reviewers a shared starting point. Each focuses on the decisions behind the service, with questions you can use in your own brief.
Procurement essentials
How to write a useful technology brief
Start with the business outcome, then make the boundaries clear.
Procurement essentials
Compare proposals beyond the headline price
A lower total is meaningful only when the underlying scope is understood.
Procurement essentials
Evaluate local and offshore delivery
Compare the working arrangement as carefully as the quoted rate.
Managed IT
Choosing an MSP: make the service boundary clear
Compare the support your team will receive, the responsibilities you retain and the evidence behind each commitment.
AI & automation
How to evaluate an AI and automation proposal
Ask what the workflow will do, how it will be tested and when a person needs to stay in control.
Delivery & ownership
Build handover and provider exit into the brief
Protect the usefulness of the work by agreeing what your organisation will own, receive and be able to operate.
Useful in your next meeting
Bring a better set of questions.
Open a checklist and identify what you know, what remains an assumption and who should answer next. You do not need to complete everything before contacting BlueBlocks.
If answering the questions needs specialist assessment, we help define that work as a scoped project rather than treating an uncertain implementation estimate as a fixed commitment.
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A useful brief can start in everyday business language.
- Describe the process, problem and people affected.
- List known systems, sites and deadlines.
- Separate required outcomes from possible solutions.
- Name the information that still needs specialist discovery.
Before you compare proposals
Make the differences visible instead of forcing a single score.
- Use the same scope version, currency and service period.
- Identify missing prices, exclusions and dependencies.
- Compare actual delivery teams and support arrangements.
- Record questions that must be answered before approval.
Before the relationship begins
A clear start includes knowing how delivery and handover will work.
- Agree completion evidence and decision owners.
- Clarify account, documentation and source ownership.
- Define support coverage and escalation.
- Discuss the records and assistance needed at provider exit.
From guidance to relevant expertise
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A useful guide can reveal the work your organisation needs. Explore the scope, provider questions and outcomes behind a focused technology service, then bring your situation to BlueBlocks.
Explore all focused services →Put the guidance in context
The right questions depend on your industry.
A manufacturing cutover, a healthcare interface and a professional-services workflow have different dependencies. Our industry insights connect the procurement questions to the way the work happens.
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