Understand the costs
Use an illustrative comparison to see how exclusions change the first-year total.
Read the pricing guide →ABOUT BAY AREA MANAGED IT
A clearer brief.
A better IT decision.
Built by a team with more than 30 years of experience as an MSP, the guide organizes the questions that sit between “we need IT help” and an agreement your team can confidently manage.
EXPERIENCE YOU CAN USE
Three decades of MSP work, turned into practical buyer guidance.
Our team has spent more than 30 years delivering managed IT services and seeing what makes provider relationships work in practice. We use that experience to help buyers define requirements, compare written proposals, verify provider claims, and plan the handover.
The guide covers services, local coverage, industry workflows, contracts, and the day-to-day responsibilities that make support work. Start with a shared scope. Ask for evidence. Record the assumptions. Keep the business in control of its accounts and decisions.
Build your provider brief →HOW TO READ THE GUIDE
Evidence and examples have different jobs.
Primary sources support the technical topics identified beside them. Worked budgets, scorecards, and scenarios help you apply the ideas; they are labeled as illustrations and are not market research or provider results.
Sources, authorship, and disclosures →WHERE WE FIT
A preparation resource for your own evaluation.
The current guide is not an audited provider ranking, certification body, or substitute for an assessment of your environment. Matching introductions are an additional input to your selection process. Some participating providers may compensate the site.
Learn how to verify a provider →Compare the evidence
Set requirements and weights before demonstrations influence the decision.
Use the scorecard →Plan delivery
Turn the winning proposal into clear onboarding acceptance criteria.
Plan the first 90 days →