Server Parts for Bosnia and Herzegovina

A dozen estates inside one organisation

Where operating units purchase independently — and in Bosnia and Herzegovina a great many organisations are structured that way — the result is not one infrastructure estate but several small ones sharing a name. Different vendors, different generations, different configurations, each chosen sensibly by the unit that bought it, and no common standard because nobody was ever in a position to set one.

The cost is a lack of scale, not a lack of quality

Each of those estates is usually well specified for what the unit needed. The difficulty is that none of them is big enough on its own to matter commercially. A support arrangement that would be routine for the organisation as a whole is disproportionately expensive for a single unit, so most units carry none, and the same hardware is therefore supported far less well than its equivalent inside a centralised organisation of the same total size.

Supply can be consolidated without standardising anything

Standardising the installed hardware is a multi-year programme and it does nothing for what is already racked. Consolidating supply is different: it changes nobody's equipment, requires no unit to give anything up, and can be done immediately. One arrangement covering every vendor and generation present recovers most of the commercial benefit of scale while each unit keeps exactly the hardware it chose.

What ICD covers

Dell, HPE, Lenovo, Cisco and IBM in a single arrangement, with particular depth in generations past OEM end of support — which decentralised estates contain in quantity, because equipment bought unit by unit is rarely refreshed on a common schedule. Each line matched to the installed build from its serial, tested, serial-verified, with one to three years of warranty.

One supplier across a dozen separate estates

The practical value we offer a decentralised organisation is a single arrangement covering five vendors and every generation, so each unit gets what its own hardware needs without the centre having to impose a standard first. Parts ship from our Cairo warehouse by express courier with the expected window confirmed per consignment.