For private equity and M&A: what a target's IT, security, licensing and custom software are worth, what they cost to own, and whether that changes your offer. Deal Scan £7,500, Technical Due Diligence from £18,000, both excluding VAT.
The diligence here comes from a firm that holds both certificates itself, 00508-ISMS-001 and 00508-QMS-001.
The team behind the certificatesTechnology due diligence, also called technical or IT due diligence, answers four questions before you commit capital.
Read access to the data room, then scope, timetable and fee agreed before any work begins. All fees exclude VAT.
A red-flag assessment before you make an offer, run off the data room and the target's external footprint. You get a proceed, caution or walk call, and it credits in full against a Technical Due Diligence within 90 days.
The full report, run in exclusivity: infrastructure, security posture and licensing, plus the custom-software question, whether it is maintainable and what it costs to keep, wrap or replace, with integration cost and a remediation estimate for the model.
Post-completion remediation and integration: Cyber Essentials or Cyber Essentials Plus readiness for the target, with the formal assessment run separately; a cross-tenant collaboration model rather than a forced tenant merge; SharePoint-to-SharePoint migration; device and Intune enrolment; and a security uplift to what the group's contracts require.
The same work from the other side of the table. Before you go to market we get the IT story clean: documentation, certifications, warranty-disclosure preparation, and the estate mapped against the checklist a buyer's diligence team works through. We have sat on both sides, including live IT-warranty disclosure during SPA negotiations. From £12,000 excluding VAT.
We are an NCSC Assured Service Provider and an appointed Cyber Essentials certification body, certified for ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 by a UKAS-accredited certification body.
Technology due diligence draws on the team that handles the rest of a deal's technology lifecycle: the Cyber Essentials certification and NCSC-assured security work that hardens a target, the software engineering team who can read its codebase and take it over, and the managed IT service that runs the estate after completion. The report is a standalone piece of work under our governance and audit practice.
Our technology due diligence checklist sets out the six areas and the custom-software question in full.
Technology due diligence is an assessment of a target company's technology before you complete a deal, its infrastructure, security posture, licensing, and any custom software, carried out for the buyer to work out whether the technology changes what the business is worth and what it will cost to own after completion.
It is also called technical due diligence or IT due diligence. A good report ends with a number: a remediation and integration estimate the deal team can put straight into the model.
Financial due diligence checks the numbers; technology due diligence checks whether the technology behind those numbers is sound, secure, and affordable to run. Cyber due diligence is one part of it, the security posture, breach history, and exposure, whereas technology (or technical) due diligence also covers infrastructure, licensing, integration cost, and the state of any custom software. We can cover the cyber question inside a full technical report, or as a standalone Deal Scan.
A pre-offer Deal Scan takes 3-5 days. A full Technical Due Diligence takes around 10 working days, depending on the size and complexity of the target. We agree the timetable up front and work to your deal calendar, including in exclusivity.
We publish fixed fees, and all of them exclude VAT. A Deal Scan is £7,500 excluding VAT, and it credits in full against a full Technical Due Diligence commissioned within 90 days. Technical Due Diligence starts from £18,000 excluding VAT, tiered by the size and complexity of the target and quoted before we start. Sell-side IT readiness starts from £12,000 excluding VAT. Every fee is agreed before you commit.
No, and we structure it so you do not have to take that on trust. The report is a standalone fixed fee for the diligence itself. Any remediation or integration is quoted separately and is entirely yours to award, to us, to your own team, or to another supplier. The findings stand whoever does the work.
That is often the hardest part of a deal. Our software engineers assess the codebase itself, architecture, stack, code quality, and documentation, and answer the questions that matter: is it maintainable, would one key person leaving sink it, and what does it cost to keep, wrap, or replace? If you complete, the same team can take the software over, so a risk we flag is one we can also close.
Yes. Most Technical Due Diligence runs during exclusivity against a fixed completion date. We agree scope and timetable before we start and keep to it. If a deal is moving faster, the Deal Scan gives you a proceed, caution, or walk call in 3-5 days.
Yes. Sell-side IT readiness is the same work from the other side of the table: we get a business's IT story clean before it goes to market, documentation, certifications, and warranty-disclosure preparation, so it is ready for the buyer's diligence process. It starts from £12,000 excluding VAT, and it suits investors and lenders preparing an asset for sale, not only trade owners.
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