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The vendors, distributors and merchants behind the work

We buy directly from manufacturers, distributors and merchants rather than through a chain of middlemen — which is how trade pricing reaches our clients, and why a part needed on Tuesday tends to arrive on Tuesday.

14 supply relationships
3 divisions supplied
Direct trade accounts, no middlemen
1951 oldest supplier still on our books

Security & Surveillance

Detection, access and monitoring hardware we install and maintain.

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Texecom

UK manufacturer

Intruder detection and alarm panels in most of our residential and commercial systems. British-made, and their engineering support answers the phone.

City Electrical Factors

Electrical supply

400+ UK branches and 35,000 lines, so a part needed on site today is usually a branch visit rather than a delivery slot.

IT & Networks

The switching, wireless and cloud our network installs are built on.

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Cisco

Networking

Switching and routing at the core of our enterprise installs, where a client needs kit their own IT department already knows.

TP-Link

Wireless

The wireless we reach for when a site needs solid coverage without enterprise licensing attached to it.

Amazon Web Services

Cloud

Where we build and manage client environments that need to scale or survive an office losing power.

Microsoft

Cloud & productivity

Microsoft 365 and Azure — deployment, migration and the managed service afterwards.

Purdicom

Distribution

Our main route to network hardware. UK stock, trade terms, and pre-sales who know the products.

CompTIA

Certification

Vendor-neutral certification. Several of our engineers hold them, which is how you know the training was examined rather than attended.

Ballicom

IT supply

Coventry-based, thirty years in the trade, and the reason odd-sized IT orders arrive when promised.

Construction

Merchants and manufacturers behind the building works.

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MKM Building Supplies

Builders’ merchant

The UK’s largest independent builders’ merchant, and a client as well as a supplier — we have fitted out their showrooms.

Discount Tiles

Tiles & surfaces

Wall and floor tiling for the bathrooms, kitchens and showroom fit-outs, bought on trade terms rather than picked off a retail shelf.

Joseph Parr

Timber & builders’ merchant

Timber and building materials from a merchant whose trade history runs back to 1883.

Go Interiors

Interior products

The UK’s largest independent distributor in construction interiors — partitions, ceilings, drylining.

Carter Steel

Steel

Over 1,000 tonnes of plate and sections held at any time, which is what makes a steel date on a programme realistic.

Training

Where our engineers learn, and keep learning.

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Learning Key Training Academy

Training

Our sister company. Specialist network labs, and it trained a good part of our engineering team — so the standard we work to is one we set ourselves.

Working with us

Interested in partnering?

We work with manufacturers, distributors, main contractors and managing agents. If you supply something our clients need, or you need a specialist package delivered on your site, we’d like to hear from you.

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Main contractors

We take security, data and M&E packages under your principal contractor arrangements.

Managing agents

One contractor across fabric, electrical, network and security for the blocks you manage.

Manufacturers

We’re always assessing new products — send us something worth specifying.

Merchants

Established trade accounts and predictable volumes across three divisions.

Tell us what you’re building.

One call, one site visit, one quote covering the security, the network and the building works. No sales pressure — an engineer will tell you honestly what you need and what you don’t.