CN22, you are confusing me:
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The office is small, consisting of only 2 employees.
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The office is small consisting of 20 employees.
Which is it?
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This company makes $20,000 a week selling various products
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the work we do is selling 20,000 a week in products
"Make" is a profit concept "selling" is turnover or gross revenue.
1. Does the budget of $60,000 include the office move. If it does then you need a quote from a local commercial removals company unless the task is so small the outfit can handle it internally?
2. Who set the budget at $60,000? People who set budgets don't do it out of thin air..........they have an idea of what they will get for their money......... that information is vital, as without it you will not be able to determine your critical success factors and your project will fail.
3. The company obviously has one computer and probably two? what are they? If they can handle office 2010, then they must be pretty modern and most likely not need replacing. Also, they must have at least one printer, or Office 2010 would be bloody useless!:) We really do need to know what their existing hardware is, as this should be re-deployed if at all possible, and it sounds as if it certainly could be.
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I need a hardware plan For example, what computers to go with?
That will depend entirely on what the customer's expectations and intentions are. If it is business as usual then you won't need any. If they intend to computerise sales order processing, sales ledger (that's accounts receivable to you guys :D) and invoicing then you will need a small server. Also, how many people do they envisage having their own desktop machine? You cannot plan or cost anything without knowing the scope of the business requirement.
If the intention is to computerise what I have suggested, you will probably need an industrial strength printer to support it.That is why I asked you the average number of transactions a week in my previous post.;)
5. Same as for hardware..........what are they expecting?
6. I would be interested to know how the business operates. Do they hold their own inventory and pick and dispatch it, or do they just take orders and pass them on to third parties for shipping? Also, who raises the invoices and delivery notes?
The answers to these questions will have a considerable impact on hardware and software solutions and their costs.
You need to do some business analysis before diving into the IT requirements because right now it is impossible to define them. You do not seem to have even a high level user requirements specification? Whoever set the $60,000 budget should have, so maybe you should talk to them?
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Consulting services offered
There is a hell of a lot more to it than consultancy, depending on what the customer wants.
Business analysis
User requirements specification
Project plan
Project management
Hardware selection
Software selection
Data migration (?)
Training (arranging it)
This is one where you will have to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty.
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On the face of it, this could be important:
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Your team has received a Request for Proposal (RFP) from a company to supply a plan for facilitating the office move.
Well, as they only have two computers maximum, and they are only running Office 2010 the solution is simple. Hire a taxi and a technician to wire them up at the new site. You don't need a plan for that, you just do it!
Anything else should be handled by a professional office removals company and is not in the scope of IT consultants. However, moving the computer(s) won't even cost $600, let alone $60,000, so they obviously have something else in mind of an IT nature?
The $64,000 question is "what?"