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IBM System X Preferred Demo Pool Partner

There are precious few IT professionals handling as many different brands, equipment, systems, languages configurations and their possible combinations as we do at Livingston. Our partners benefit from our independence and versatility.

IT manufacturers use our outsourcing offers. We coordinate your complete demo equipment pool. Wholesalers’ requirements of IT equipment will be quickly and reliably recorded, be it for an exhibition or for benchmarking at the customer’s. All business transactions, from receipt of order up to return of the equipment will not burden the resources of the IT manufacturers – and all are going to benefit from being able to concentrate on their core business.

IBM UK has chosen Livingston as its partner to provide System X demonstration and evaluation products for its UK sales force and channel partners. As IBM's x series demo pool partner, we hold in stock the latest IBM xseries product range for immediate demonstration.

Loan Pool Kit Available

IBM & Livingston's Loan Pool Order Process

Step 1: IBM account manager completes the loan request form and sends this to ibm@livingston.co.uk Notes: This request should ideally be a validated configuration. We can work with just a generic description and will do the configuration but we do not validate them as fit for purpose.

Step 2: The IBM team at Livingston will respond with a quotation giving details of cost and delivery.

Step 3: The IBM account manager will need to seek approval from Jason Grout for the loan, or from their line manager if an additional purchase order is required.

Step 4: The IBM account manager sends an email containing the approval from Jason Grout, or details of the purchase order raised.

Step 5: The IBM team at Livingston send out standard loan agreement form to customer contact.

Step 6: Customer returns signed agreement, either by fax or scanned in document sent by email. No kit will be shipped or ordered before receipt of the signed agreement

Step 7: The IBM team at Livingston dispatch the kit on standard un-timed overnight delivery or place order to procure the equipment and then dispatch once the kit arrives at Livingston.

Step 8: The IBM team notify the IBM account manager when the kit is due to be returned.

Step 9: IBM account manager can request approval for an extension to the loan and seek approval from Jason Grout, or amend/raise purchase order to cover the extra loan period.

Step 10: The IBM team at Livingston will agree with the IBM account manager who will contact the customer to arrange collection.

Step 11: Collection arranged and loan terminated. At any point the kit can be purchased by the customer or by IBM/Business partner on behalf of the customer. 

For a PowerPoint presentation to help you through the BOND process, download this.

Please feel free to contact Mandy Butler on 0208 614 4044 or ibm@livingston.co.uk to request information on active loans or loan requests. For more information on procedures and exceptions please contact Stephen Lark on 0208 614 4043.

The primary contact at IBM is

Stuart Hogg, IBM System x Business Manager for UK, Ireland, Central and Southern Africa
IBM Systems and Technology Group 76 Upper Ground, South Bank, London SE1 9PZ Email: stuart.hogg@uk.ibm.com Telephone: +44 (0) 7764 283022 

IBM System x x86 servers for Windows and Linux

Contact your IBM sales partner for more information.