Independent Vendor Selection
Choose the right development partner with confidence — a formal, independent process that matches a vendor's real strengths to your criteria.
Choosing a development vendor blind — unable to tell whose strengths actually fit your needs, and risking a costly partnership with the wrong one.
Many companies look for the right development partner to grow their business, but choosing the right vendor is hard — the key is weighing each company's strengths and weaknesses and finding the best fit for you. Independent Vendor Selection (IVS) is a formal method for selecting an engineering vendor. We help you confirm a vendor fits your criteria and can deliver what you expect: Do you need experience in your industry or a particular technology? Someone who works closely with you or stays hands-off? We help answer those questions and make your choice a confident one.
- A formal, repeatable method instead of a gut call.
- Vendors weighed on real strengths and weaknesses.
- Criteria matched to your industry, technology and working style.
- A confident, defensible decision.
A bounded, phased engagement. Each bar below is proportional to its estimated duration on a shared calendar.
Agree what the right vendor must have and do.
Weigh candidates' strengths, weaknesses and fit.
Deliver a confident recommendation.
Concrete artefacts you keep — delivered in editable, open formats your team owns.
Selection Criteria
The criteria a vendor must meet, defined with you.
CriteriaVendor Assessment
Each candidate weighed against the criteria.
AssessmentRecommendation
A confident, defensible shortlist or choice.
Report
The edges of this engagement, and what we’ll need from you to run it.
- Negotiating the contract on your behalf.
- Managing the vendor once selected.
- Delivering the work ourselves.
- Guarantees about a vendor's future performance.
- The vendors or shortlist you're considering.
- Your industry, technology and working-style needs.
- The scope the vendor will deliver.
- A decision-maker to ratify the choice.
Fixed-scope and outcome-priced — one agreed figure for a defined set of deliverables, with no hourly billing.
Per vendor — Small $3,200 to Large $6,200 by depth.
- Fixed scope, agreed before we start — no open-ended hourly billing.
- One figure covers the full set of deliverables listed alongside.
- The number only moves with system complexity, and only by agreement.
- Selection Criteria
- Vendor Assessment
- Recommendation
Answers to the questions we hear most about this engagement.
What is IVS?
Independent Vendor Selection — a formal method of choosing an engineering vendor by weighing each one's strengths and weaknesses against your criteria.
Are you independent?
Yes — we're not one of the vendors. The assessment is about finding your best fit, not steering you to us.
How is it priced?
Per vendor assessed — from $3,200 to $6,200 depending on depth.
What do I get?
Defined selection criteria, an assessment of each candidate against them, and a confident recommendation.