Our suite of services means that at any stage in a project you receive expert advice on overcoming your ICT challenges.

Because ICT underpins everything organisations do from day to day, ICT delivery needs to be planned carefully and strategically.

We work to understand your business needs and develop strategic solutions that maximise operational benefits, minimise risks, and deliver value for money.

Organisations around the world have adopted our strategies, from emergency service organisations looking to improve their performance, to businesses seeking competitive advantage.

Our strategy service includes:

• as-is reviews
• requirements capture
• gap analysis
• options identification and appraisal
• cost–benefit analysis, business case production, and economic appraisals
• market analysis/forecasting.

Refreshing ICT networks and systems can feel like taking a leap of faith – choosing between competing systems, suppliers and commercial solutions in a fast-changing technology landscape. It’s no wonder organisations look to independent, expert advice.

Mason advises on all aspects of ICT procurement and sourcing for fixed and wireless networks, voice and data services, control room and contact centre systems, and virtualised IT environments.

Our procurement service includes:

• strategic sourcing and planning
• procurement strategy development
• market testing
• requirements capture and needs analysis
• system specification
• tender preparation, management, evaluation, assurance and selection (including Government and EU procurement processes)
• contract development and negotiation
• benchmarking and cost optimisation
• implementation and supplier management.

We have an up-to-date working knowledge of the OJEU procedures and other public-sector approaches and frameworks, as well as extensive experience of private-sector procurement.  

Robust programme and project management is essential to delivering successful operational change. Particularly with critical communications, you need complete confidence that projects are under control. We work with you to plan properly, meet deadlines, stick to budgets, and manage and mitigate risks. Our flexible approach can be adapted to single-site solution or large-scale, complex programmes.

Our programme and project management service includes:

• programme definition – delivering a clear roadmap and achievable plan
• delivery management – helping to get the best out of your teams
• programme management office – providing a complete service from inception to implementation
• programme and project assurance – providing impartial insights to support delivery.

Our consultants have decades of hands-on programme management and consulting experience, including using PRINCE2 and Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) methodologies.

Mason is a member of the Association of Project Managers.

In a fast-changing ICT market, you can benefit from our in-depth and up-to-date understanding of technologies and vendors.

We develop high-level end-to-end designs to support procurement exercises and to help clients engage with suppliers. Our consultants also provide design assurance, ensuring that your objectives are being met by vendor systems, and suggesting alternative approaches where necessary.

Mason provides impartial analysis of fixed and wireless system and network architectures. And where clients have made a large outlay on existing architectures, our consultants suggest optimisation strategies to maximise the return on investment.

Our design and architecture service includes:

• design feasibility studies
• outline design development for business case/budgeting
• architectural design, implementation and optimisation
• technology roadmap development
• spectrum and radio coverage design and planning (frequency and planning, and interference analysis)
• technology/product selection
• interoperability planning.

Our assurance and review service is all about giving you confidence: confidence in your systems, confidence in your suppliers, confidence in your costs.

Mason consultants will help ensure that your ICT environment is delivering the operational benefits you expect, at a price you can afford. That peace of mind comes from appraising contracts, assessing supplier performance, benchmarking value for money, and undertaking rigorous testing.

Our assurance and review service includes:

• architecture and infrastructure audit
• business continuity and disaster recovery support
• technology and service testing
• technical and financial due diligence
• service management review and outsource mediation
• performance and cost benchmarking 
• billing audit
• network optimisation
• contract review.

As an independent consultancy, we have in-depth technical, commercial and contractual knowledge, as well as an uncompromising approach, ensuring that suppliers comply with contractual commitments, meet service level agreements, and deliver an effective technical solution.