Vendor Shield embeds Redress Compliance's senior advisory team across your entire software vendor estate — all year, for a fixed fee. Pricing benchmarking, contract review, audit defence, pre-call briefings. No per-project fees. No surprises.
Your software vendors have thousands of salespeople, renewal specialists, and audit teams. They negotiate enterprise deals every day. Most enterprises face their biggest vendors once a year — unprepared. Vendor Shield changes that equation permanently.
Vendor Shield is a continuous, subscription-based advisory programme that embeds Redress Compliance's senior team across your covered vendor relationships. Every renewal, every audit letter, every contract amendment — reviewed and briefed before you respond.
Unlike project-based advisory, Vendor Shield means Redress has context on your vendor relationships year-round. When Oracle sends an audit letter, we already know your deployment. When Microsoft EA comes up, we already have your baseline. The preparation happens before the pressure.
For Starter and Core clients: You get full advisory coverage for 2–5 vendors at a fixed annual fee — predictable budget, no project scope creep, no surprise invoices when a vendor audit lands.
Renewal Events (major negotiations, complex audits) are priced separately on top — but with context already built, they close in days, not months.
All tiers include pricing benchmarking, contract review, audit defence, and pre-call briefings. Coverage scales with vendor count. Renewal Events are always priced separately on top.
Ideal for existing project clients. Common pairings: Oracle + Microsoft, Microsoft + Salesforce, SAP + Oracle.
The sweet spot. Microsoft as anchor + 2–4 of Oracle, SAP, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Workday, IBM.
For large enterprises with active renewal calendars across most major vendors. Software spend $20M–$75M.
Full estate coverage. Fortune 500 / Global 2000. Software spend $50M–$150M+.
All tiers: 24-month minimum commitment. Quarterly billing in advance. 0–3% annual escalator locked at signing. 5% discount for annual upfront payment. Renewal Events priced separately on top.
Every Shield tier activates the same core delivery engine. Coverage scales by vendor count; the quality and speed of delivery does not change between tiers.
The subscription covers continuous advisory — strategy, monitoring, preparation. Renewal Events cover execution of major negotiations. Priced separately, but context built year-round means Events close in days, not months.
Shield prevents the "all you can eat" problem by separating strategy (subscription) from execution (events). The subscription makes every Renewal Event faster and cheaper — because Redress already has your data, your history, and your vendor relationships built.
A cold Oracle ULA engagement typically takes 2–3 months to mobilise and costs significantly more. A Shield client's Oracle ULA Renewal Event mobilises in days at the prices below — because the context is already built.
Optional: 5–10% success fee on documented savings can be added to Renewal Event SOWs in lieu of, or in addition to, the fixed fee.
Vendor Shield is designed for organisations spending $5M–$150M per year on enterprise software across 2 or more of the major vendors. The typical Shield client is a CIO, CPO, or VP Procurement at a 1,000–100,000 employee company.
A 45-minute call to map your vendor estate, identify your highest-risk renewals and audit exposures, and determine which Shield tier fits your organisation. No commitment required.
24-month minimum · Quarterly billing · Audit defence included · Buyer-side only