"I thought we had already negotiated a great deal. Silver Bullet Associates then stepped in and showed us how to improve the deal further. In the end, Silver Bullet Associates helped us take another $625,000 out of the Year 1 costs."
IT Procurement Manager, Pharmaceutical Company
About Silver Bullet Associates
We work with IT Directors, IT Managers, and IT Procurement professionals throughout the UK
Who are concerned that they may be paying too much for software products and services, and who are unsure what discounts and concessions they should be asking for when they are negotiating with their software suppliers.
What we do is provide our clients with both price benchmarking data and negotiation advice which means that they can then confidently approach their software suppliers and negotiate higher discounts, lower prices and better value.
As a result, our clients reduce their software costs and save money.
Silver Bullet Associates is a group of software procurement and negotiation experts supported by a team of market researchers and analysts. We do not sell any software and we have no affiliations with any software suppliers. You can be assured that our advice will always be truly independent and unbiased.
The Company was founded in 2003 by its current Managing Director, Mark Bartrick, after lengthy research and consultation with various CIOs, IT Directors, IT Managers and procurement specialists. Prior to setting up Silver Bullet Associates, Mark had spent 17 years in the IT industry working in the UK, Europe and the USA in various sales and sales management roles for the likes of IBM, StorageTek, SSA and most recently Gartner. During his time selling for vendors Mark witnessed first hand how businesses often miss out on getting the best deals, prices and discounts simply because they don’t know what to ask for and how to ask.
Silver Bullet Associates now provides this market intelligence exclusively to end users and we are now helping some of the world's largest companies reduce their software costs through more effective cost management and better negotiation.