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CDW is one of the world's leading trusted advisors to Public Sector Organisations delivering $6bn of solutions globally each year. CDW's unparalleled scale, buying power, value for money, close interworking relationships with leading IT partners and technical expertise ensure success.
As a trusted technology partner to the Ministry of Defence and wider government departments, CDW provides a broad range of products, services and solutions. Our understanding of the unique requirements for the defence and national security sector enables us to adopt technology to improve planning, responsiveness, communication and collaboration in a safe, secure and timely manner, ensuring as a nation the UK remains safe, prosperous and secure.
Our experienced account managers are aligned to defence, with a knowledge of customer IT challenges relevant to the sector to provide operational and strategic account management services.
Our three UK data centres offer co-located, fully managed and hybrid services to minimise risk of downtime.
We have 20+ years of experience securing digital transformation for defence organisations and improving protection of the UK and its overseas territories.
Delivery to 98% of UK within 4.5 hours is via a 120,000 sq. ft facility centrally located in Rugby, holding 325,000 items of general or client-owned stock and shipping over three million items each year.
We provide lifecycle support across workspace, datacentre, cloud and security platforms to facilitate development of specific solutions that reduce the IT management burden for defence organisations.
Over 1,000 workstations in a 30,000 sq. ft facility are staffed by 40+ vendor certified technicians providing consultancy, device imaging, asset tagging and pre-staging services.
Hundreds of subject matter experts at every stage of the engagement, including free of charge pre-sales specialists, are available to design, deploy, support and maintain customised defence technical solutions.
Our ITIL and ISO:20000 compliant facility has 400+ service professionals, a multi-lingual Service Desk with 150+ 1st/2nd/3rd line agents and 100+ field engineers (including security cleared agents and engineers) to provide support and maintenance services.
We have the ability to securely handle information assets, including use of security cleared consultants and engineers appropriate to the public sector, under our ISO:27001 accredited information security management system (ISMS).
Our procurement portal delivers comprehensive asset management, inventory data, reporting and purchasing trend analysis which integrates fully into an organisation's existing systems.
We're listed on 10+ frameworks relevant to the defence sector to provide procurement compliance, including CCS agreements.
We can open doors to one of the world's largest IT reseller networks of best-of-breed suppliers and elite level partnerships to gain visibility of technology trends, future technology and access to best pricing.
Find out more about the many reasons for choosing CDW for the defence and national security sector. Simply email info@uk.cdw.com, call +44 207 791 6000 or contact your nearest CDW office.