Outsourced IT support.

Give your business one team to run its agreed IT service: the helpdesk, supported systems, security operations and reporting. DSC takes day-to-day responsibility while you keep business priorities, budgets and approvals. The service schedule defines what we cover and how the handover works.

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ISO 27001 & 9001Certified by a UKAS-accredited certification body Cyber Essentials & PlusCertification body Cyber Essentials PlusCertified NCSC AssuredCyber Advisor scheme

What is outsourced IT support?

Outsourced IT support gives an external provider responsibility for running your agreed IT service. DSC supplies the service desk, administration, maintenance and reporting around your supported systems, and coordinates other suppliers. You retain business decisions and approvals. Our published fully managed user rate includes endpoint and identity threat detection and response; the service schedule defines coverage and human response hours.

The whole IT function.

Fully outsourced IT gives your people a service desk, a named account owner and engineers responsible for the supported estate. Configured monitoring runs continuously; human support and investigation follow the agreed service window.

01One service owner. The desk retains issue ownership through supplier escalations. Your service schedule records supported systems and each party's responsibilities.
02Planned monitoring and maintenance. Configured monitoring, patching and maintenance help identify faults and reduce avoidable disruption.
03Security in the published user rate. Endpoint and identity threat detection and response are included. Protected systems, containment authority and human response hours are agreed in writing.
04Account ownership and reporting. A monthly management report records engineering work, risks and agreed actions. Additional architecture and advisory work is scoped before it starts.

Signs it's time to hand IT to someone else entirely.

It fits a specific situation: no internal IT function, or one you want to stop relying on.

  • Nobody is responsible for IT; it gets handled by whoever has time.
  • You have outgrown a founder's laptop and a shared drive, but do not want to build an IT team.
  • A security gap has been flagged, by a client, an insurer or a near miss, and nobody owns it.
  • Growth is held back by systems nobody has time to modernise.
  • You want one team answerable for the estate, not a mix of freelancers and suppliers.

The services we can take responsibility for.

We agree the supported estate and charges, including any connectivity and telephony services.

01Support

Helpdesk, monitoring and patching

Your team's first call, answered by engineers who know your setup. The fully managed service includes unlimited service desk work within the agreed scope and hours.

Service deskConfigured monitoringPatch management
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02Modern work

Microsoft 365

Administration of email, Teams, SharePoint and identity. Microsoft licences are charged separately; migration and additional security work are agreed in the scope.

Migration and setupLicensingMFA and hardening
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03Backup

Cloud, hosting and backup

Cloud, on-premises or a mix. Where the backup service is in scope, we verify backups daily and test restores monthly against agreed recovery priorities.

Cloud and hostingTested backupsDisaster recovery
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04Secure

Security and MDR

Endpoint and identity threat detection and response in the fully managed user rate. Cyber Essentials and Plus assessment, ISO 27001 support and additional incident response work are separately scoped.

Agreed MDR coverageCyber EssentialsIncident response
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What it costs to hand us the whole of IT.

Our published fully managed rate is £65 per user per month, excluding VAT, with a £650 monthly minimum. Endpoint and identity threat detection and response are included in that user rate.

01 Published user rate Service desk, Microsoft 365 administration, patching, reporting and the included security services for the agreed scope.
02 Separate infrastructure and services Servers, firewalls, Wi-Fi, backup, licences and certification have their own charges. We identify them against your estate.
03 A written quote, not a guess Before anything starts. See our pricing for how we structure it.

The credentials to check before you hand over the whole of IT.

We are a UK-based Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus certification body. Our ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certification is issued by 3core2 Certification, a UKAS-accredited certification body. Our NCSC assurance is specifically under the Cyber Advisor scheme.

AppointedCyber Essentials and Plus certification bodyWe assess other organisations and hold Cyber Essentials Plus certification ourselves. Certification is subject to a successful assessment.
CertifiedISO 27001 & 9001, certified by a UKAS-accredited bodyThe certification body audits our management system against the standard.
AssuredNCSC Cyber Advisor schemeOur assured Cyber Advisor service helps organisations implement the Cyber Essentials controls.

Common questions

What does outsourced IT support include?

DSC runs the service defined in your agreement: helpdesk, supported-system administration, monitoring, patching and reporting. The published fully managed user rate includes endpoint and identity threat detection and response. Infrastructure, backup, connectivity, licences and certification have separately identified charges. The service schedule records systems, responsibilities, response commitments and human support hours.

How much does outsourced IT support cost?

Our published fully managed rate is £65 per user per month, excluding VAT, with a £650 monthly minimum. Infrastructure, backup, licences and additional services have separate rates. Tell us your headcount, sites and systems for a written quote. See our pricing for inclusions and scope.

Will we lose control if you run all of our IT?

No. You keep the decisions that matter: budget, priorities, and what the business needs the technology to do. We handle the execution, the security and the technical calls behind those priorities, reported back to you regularly.

What happens to our existing IT person if we outsource?

If you already have someone in house, full outsourcing is not always the right move: co-managed IT support often fits better, keeping them in place while we take on the workload around them. Where a business does move to fully outsourced, we handle a controlled handover of their access and knowledge.

How does the switch to outsourced IT work?

It starts with a review of your estate and contracts. We agree responsibilities and coordinate a controlled handover of access, configure the monitoring and security services in scope, and prioritise remediation. Changes, dependencies and the timetable are agreed before work starts.

Do you cover security and compliance as part of outsourced IT?

The fully managed user rate includes endpoint and identity threat detection and response. Coverage, containment authority and human response hours follow the service schedule. Readiness work can be included when agreed; formal Cyber Essentials or Plus assessment and certification fees are separately recorded, and certification depends on a successful result. ISO 27001 and other governance work has its own scope. See our cyber security services and governance and audit.

Maintained by the Dead Simple Computing engineering team. Security led by Daniel McClure Fisher, CISSP, MCIIS. Last reviewed July 2026.

Let's take IT off your plate.

Book a consultation and tell us what you are running today, even if that is not much of a system at all. We will show you what handing it over looks like, in writing.

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