Procurement
How to buy us
- RFP contact
- press@mlgblockchain.com
- RFP acknowledgement
- Two business days
- Go / no-go decision
- Five business days
- Onboarding pack
- On request, same day
Commercial structures
| Structure | When it fits | What we need to price it |
|---|---|---|
| Fixed-scope advisory | The question is clear and the deliverable is a document. Most first engagements. | The question, the audience for the answer, and the review process it must survive. |
| Time and materials delivery | Scope will move, and both sides know it. Integration work almost always. | A systems map and a named technical owner on your side. |
| Fixed-price delivery | Scope is genuinely known, usually after an architecture engagement with us. | The architecture document, and agreement on what is out of scope. |
| Managed services | You have deployed and do not yet have a rota. | The responsibility split, the response times, and who is accountable on your side. |
| Platform licence | You would rather operate our software than build it. | A technical evaluation. We do not price before it. |
We will tell you when a fixed price would mean pricing the unknowns into it. A firm that quotes fixed against an unmapped integration is either charging you for the risk or about to have an argument with you.
Contracting positions
Your paper or ours
We will work from your MSA. Our standard positions on liability, IP and indemnity are in the onboarding pack so your counsel can review them before the first call.
IP
Work product created for you is yours. Pre-existing platform code stays ours and is licensed. The boundary is drawn in the agreement rather than argued about at handover.
Data processing
A DPA position is in the pack, along with the subprocessor approach. Engagement-specific registers are produced before processing begins.
Insurance
Certificates are provided on request. Tell us the limits your process requires early — that is occasionally the item that takes longest.
Public sector
We respond to open tenders and to market-engagement exercises. Entity details, ownership structure and the group’s disclosure record are provided in the onboarding pack, and the group structure is described in full on the group — a practice inside a merchant bank is a structure a public buyer will ask about, and it is better answered on a page than in a clarification question.
We hold no framework agreement or contract vehicle at present. Stated rather than implied, because it is the kind of claim a buyer checks in a register.
What slows an enterprise cycle, in our experience
- Security questionnaires answered by email. Ours are answered on the trust centre; send us only what it does not cover.
- No named technical owner on the buyer’s side. Programmes stall on decisions nobody owns more often than on price.
- Insurance limits raised at contract stage rather than at the start.
- Scope written to a budget rather than to a problem. We will say so, and propose the smaller engagement that actually answers the question.