Technology Procurement Advisory · United Kingdom

Your vendors know you
are overpaying.
We fix that.

Valence Dynamics finds the gaps in your IT spend, quantifies them, and closes them. Our fee is tied entirely to what we deliver.

27%
of cloud spend is wasted
Flexera 2025
30–40%
of SaaS licences sit unused
Productiv / Zylo
84%
say managing cloud spend is their top challenge
Flexera 2025
£0
our fee if we deliver no savings
Valence model
The Reality

Most businesses are overspending on technology in ways that are entirely recoverable.

It happens quietly, across multiple line items, in patterns that internal teams rarely have the commercial expertise or bandwidth to catch.

  • 01
    Contracts renew on autopilot Annual renewals pass without challenge. Auto-renewal clauses lock in price uplifts year after year on terms agreed when your business looked nothing like it does today.
  • 02
    Cloud infrastructure runs oversized Average CPU utilisation in cloud environments sits at 15–20%. Capacity scales up with demand and almost never scales back down without active governance.
  • 03
    Licences accumulate faster than headcount Between 30 and 40 percent of SaaS licences in the average organisation go unused. Procurement happens independently by department. Offboarding is rarely complete.
  • 04
    Tools duplicate silently across teams Marketing, Sales and Engineering each buy tools that overlap. The average company runs 4.5 tools with duplicate functionality and nobody has the full picture.
  • 05
    The commercial gap works in the vendor's favour Enterprise software vendors negotiate contracts every day. Most businesses do it once a year, without a specialist, against a counterpart who does this for a living.
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None of this happens because people are careless. It happens because the vendors on the other side of the table are counting on it.

The Valence Dynamics Thesis
The Data

The scale of the problem, sourced.

Every figure comes from a named, current industry report. We use the same data to size the recoverable opportunity inside your business.

27%
of cloud spend is wasted — on unused resources, oversized instances, and forgotten services.
Flexera State of the Cloud 2025 · 759 IT professionals surveyed
17%
average cloud budget overrun. Most organisations exceed their annual cloud spend target every year.
Flexera State of the Cloud 2025
30%
software cost reduction achievable through licence recycling, rightsizing, and active management.
Gartner
Our Model

We get paid when you save money. Not before.

For our core work, we operate on a gain share basis — 20% of verified savings against an agreed baseline on your actual invoices. Every figure is independently checkable. A CFO can verify the entire engagement in under ten minutes.

01

Diagnose

We map your entire technology estate — contracts, renewal dates, licence counts, cloud commitments — against what the business actually consumes. Every gap is identified and quantified before we recommend anything.

02

Deliver

We do the work: negotiating with vendors, restructuring cloud commitments, rationalising licence estates, and consolidating where it makes commercial sense. We act as your commercial representative, not just an adviser.

03

Verify

Savings are measured on your actual invoices against the agreed baseline. Once the engagement closes, so does our invoice. No retainers, no tail fees, no billing for work we did last year.

20% of verified savings. If we deliver nothing, you pay nothing.

The IT Spend Audit fee is credited in full against your first Performance Partnership payment if you proceed. Beyond the gain share model, we offer a range of fixed-scope services where pricing is agreed and confirmed in writing before any work begins.

How It Works

From first conversation to signed agreement.

Every engagement follows the same structured path. Nothing is assumed, nothing is vague, and no work begins without a signed engagement letter from both parties.

01

Discovery call

A free 30-minute conversation. We want to understand your technology spend, your renewal pressures, and where you think the gaps are. You will leave with a clear view of whether we can help and what that would look like.

Free30 minutes · No obligation
02

Written proposal

If there is a fit, we issue a written proposal covering scope, deliverables, timeline, and confirmed pricing. You see exactly what you are getting before you commit to anything.

FreeWithin 5 business days
03

Engagement letter

Once the proposal is agreed, both parties sign an engagement letter covering scope, fees, payment terms, confidentiality, and IP ownership. This is the point at which the engagement formally begins.

RequiredBefore any work starts
04

Delivery

Work proceeds against the scope and milestones in the engagement letter. Any change to scope requires written agreement from both parties before it takes effect.

ActivePer agreed timeline
05

Verification and close

On Performance Partnership engagements, every saving is verified on your actual invoices before fees are raised. A written summary is issued on close. The engagement ends cleanly — no retainers, no perpetual billing.

Clean exitNo tail fees
All pricing on this site is indicative. Final scope, fees, and terms are confirmed through a written proposal and signed engagement letter before any work begins. The discovery call is free of charge and carries no obligation. Nothing on this site constitutes a binding offer or contract.
Services

The right engagement for where you are right now.

Most clients start with a diagnostic. All prices below are indicative — final scope and fee are confirmed in writing before any work begins.

Valence Performance Partnership

20% of verified savings — no savings, no fee
Flagship

Our core engagement. We identify savings across your entire technology estate and implement them — vendor renegotiation, cloud restructuring, licence rationalisation, and consolidation where it makes commercial sense. Every saving verified on your actual invoices. The engagement closes cleanly when the work is done.

Scope · Engagement length and baseline set during scoping. IT Spend Audit fee credited in full on proceed. Full terms in engagement letter.

IT Spend Audit

£3,000 – £5,000
Start here

A complete review of your technology spend across software, cloud, hardware, and services. Contracts mapped, renewal dates identified, licence counts checked against actual consumption. Output is a written report with every recoverable pound quantified and a prioritised action plan.

Scope · Final fee depends on vendor count and contract complexity. Credited against first Performance Partnership payment.

Cloud FinOps Governance

£2,500 / month
Monthly

Structured FinOps discipline applied to your AWS, Azure, or multi-cloud environment every month. Spend review, waste identification, reserved instance strategy, and variance reporting against budget. A senior practitioner actively managing your cloud cost without the overhead of a permanent hire.

Scope · Standard rate covers single-cloud environments. Multi-cloud estates scoped separately.

Procurement Policy & Process Design

£5,000 – £15,000
Foundation

A complete technology procurement framework built for your organisation: policies, approval structures, vendor evaluation criteria, contract standards, and renewal governance. Everything documented, everything yours to run independently when we are done. No retainer required.

Scope · Final fee depends on organisation size and complexity. Confirmed before kickoff.

IT Budget Planning Support

£4,000 – £6,000
Annual cycle

Commercial rigour built into your annual technology budget before it is set. Properly categorised, mapped to your renewal calendar, and benchmarked against current market rates. The output is a budget your team can defend at board level and repeat independently in future years.

Scope · Single planning cycle. Final fee depends on budget scale and stakeholder count.

Category Strategy Plan

From £8,000
Strategic

A two to three year sourcing roadmap for your technology estate. Each category assessed for vendor dependency, concentration risk, and consolidation opportunity. Turns disconnected purchasing decisions into a managed portfolio with a forward commercial plan your IT Director or CPO can actually use.

Scope · Priced by number of categories in scope. Typical range £8,000 – £15,000.

AI & Cloud Strategy

From £8,000
Strategic

Commercial and technical structure for organisations acquiring AI and cloud capability without a coherent plan. Full audit of current tooling including shadow spend, total cost of ownership modelling, and a board-ready strategy document covering vendor selection, governance, and a prioritised roadmap.

Scope · Priced by breadth of estate and number of business units. Typical range £8,000 – £15,000.
All pricing indicative · Final scope and fee confirmed in writing · No work begins without a signed engagement letter
Get in Touch

Book a discovery call.

A free 30-minute conversation to understand your situation. Tell us what you are spending and where you think the gaps might be. We will give you an honest view of whether and how we can help — no obligation, no sales pitch.

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hello@valence-dynamics.com

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