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A primary school in Apia and a university in Auckland want the same thing.

Technology that works without an IT call. Print that doesn't lock up mid-thesis. Networks that hold up at exam time. Budgets that survive the term.

A school in Nuku'alofa doesn't have a print budget for half-year reports being printed twice. A polytechnic in Honiara doesn't have time for an MFP that locks up mid-prospectus run. A university IT department in Auckland doesn't have headcount to chase a vendor across a time zone when the law library's print queue dies during finals.

Education runs to a calendar that the IT vendor doesn't get to negotiate. Term breaks are when you upgrade. Exam weeks are when nothing can fail. Enrolment is when the load triples. We've sized hundreds of school and tertiary deployments to that calendar — print fleets that match actual term-by-term volume, M365 tenants that segment staff and student data properly, networks that survive 600 devices on day one of term.

And we know the procurement reality: most schools and tertiary institutions don't have a procurement department. The principal, the bursar or the head of IT is the procurement department. We supply quotes you can take to a board meeting, contracts you can take to a lawyer, and a single account person who picks up the phone when the printer dies during exam week.

Planning for next term?

Most school IT decisions happen in the term break before they're needed. Tell us your enrolment, your term calendar and what's currently breaking — we'll come back with a plan sized to your budget cycle.