Your systems do not need replacing. They need a few more years.

A condition assessment of one system. Fixed price, from $6,500 to $14,500 depending on how tangled the system is, and read-only: no code changes, no data migration, no retraining, and nothing about how the system runs changes while it is underway. You get a written report you can forward upward without editing it, ending in a priced list of discrete fixes.

Because a ceiling is the harder commitment, not the softer one. An estimate can move upward and usually does, which is the thing you have been burned by before. A ceiling cannot. If the work comes in under it, you are invoiced for what it actually took. If it turns out larger, that is our problem rather than a change order.

That depends on your own purchasing bylaw or policy, not on us, and you should check your threshold before you rely on it. What we can say is that an assessment is a small, read-only, fixed-price piece of work that comes out of an operating line rather than a capital request. Whether that fits a direct purchase, a quote process or a competition under your rules is a question for your procurement office, and we will follow whichever route it sets.

We hold an active contract with a Canadian provincial government ministry, client name withheld under contract confidentiality. We are also pre-qualified with the Office of the Auditor General of British Columbia and on the Province of BC Multi-Use List for Software Development and Testing. Pre-qualification puts us on the invitation lists for limited competitions in those categories; it is not itself a contract award.

CyberSecure Canada certification is in progress. We do not currently hold SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, StateRAMP or HECVAT. Risk is covered in the contract instead: $2,000,000 in cyber liability and $2,000,000 in professional liability are in force, for public bodies we deploy in Canadian regions by default, confirmed in writing per engagement, and the system runs in your own accounts under your own access controls. WCAG 2.1 AA is the standard we build to. If a solicitation requires one of those certifications, we will tell you in the first reply.

You work with the same person from the first call through handover, with no account manager in between. We bid as prime and add named people on award, approved by you before they start, with their cost already inside the fixed price. Every system is documented so that any competent engineer, ours or yours, can pick it up.

It keeps running, because it never depended on us. The code lives in your repository, deployed to your accounts, on your domain, using standard, widely used technologies with no proprietary runtime. You own 100% of the source, data, and intellectual property on final payment, and the documentation is written so an engineer who has never spoken to us can take it over. That is the structural difference from a licensed platform, where the product goes away when the vendor does.

Then the report says so, in writing, and prices that too. Some systems have a long runway and a short list of cheap problems. Some are genuinely at the end. Selling extension work to a system that cannot be extended would cost you money and cost us the only thing worth more than the invoice.