SSP, Strategic Supply Partners Live inventory
The desk
GPU procurementNodes and clusters, landed to your rack ● Live inventoryVerified lines, indicative pricing
By platform
B300 and GB300Current-generation Blackwell H200 and H100New stock and fleet rotation All platformsThe full catalogue
Rest of the stack
Memory, servers and storageThe kit around the accelerators Networking and opticsTransceivers, switching, cabling
Capacity without capex
GPU-as-a-serviceReserved, committed spend, on demand Bare-metal leasingDedicated clusters on a term
Decide first
Cloud vs bare metalWhere each one actually wins Reserved vs on demandThe break-even, calculated Cluster cost calculatorThe whole bill, not the GPU line
Space and power
Colocation and powerSingle racks to 100 MW Above 40 kW per rackWhere the shortlist collapses
Where
United States Europe Asia Pacific Middle East and Africa All regions →
Supply side
Have capacity to fill?Tell us what you hold
Analysis
InsightsWhat things cost, with the numbers Sizing guidesMemory, nodes, power, cost ComparisonsBuy, lease or rent
Start here
How an engagement worksThe first week, held to dates Find your fitThree questions, the right desk Glossary
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Enterprise & HPC · Adopt · Scale

The board asked for AI. Nobody asked for a data centre.

Right-sized compute plus everything around it, cloud, licensing, networking, endpoints and managed services, through one procurement desk, on a procurement path that survives your own security review.

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You’re here because
  • A board-level AI mandate arrived, and somewhere it became we need to buy GPUs.
  • Your security and compliance review will add months, and nobody built that into the timeline.
  • You have five vendors doing something that should have one owner and one throat to choke.
  • Your hardware refresh cycle and your AI programme landed in the same quarter, competing for the same budget.
  • You want the capability, not the operational burden of running a cluster.
  • Your research funding is awarded in cycles and the market does not care about your cycles.
What we do

Right-sized first. One procurement desk for the whole requirement.

Within one hourAcknowledged, every enquiry, every time
You contract directWith the supplier, never through us
No cost to buyersCompensation comes from the supply side, disclosed
Global coverageSourced wherever the position actually fits

Related: Enterprise hardware sourcing

Right-size

We right-size it first.

Most enterprise AI needs less dedicated compute than the first quote suggests, and more thought about where the data sits. We will tell you when cloud plus a modest footprint is the answer.

Whole stack

We cover the layers, not just the box.

Cloud and licensing, managed services, networking and security, storage, and user-ready endpoints enrolled before they reach the employee. One relationship across all of it.

Procurement

We work with procurement, not around it.

Vendor documentation, security questionnaires, compliance evidence and disclosed relationships prepared at the front, not dug out in week eleven.

Value

We make prior-generation capacity work.

Whole-cluster value configurations from earlier generations often deliver the throughput required at a fraction of the flagship commitment.

What we won’t do

The limits, up front.

  • We won’t sell you a cluster to hit a mandate. If the requirement is better served by cloud, a smaller footprint, or nothing yet, that is what we tell you.
  • We won’t bypass your review process. Slow is a feature here. We would rather start the security file in week one than argue about it in month three.
  • We won’t leave you with five vendors. If we bring a partner in, we stay accountable for the introduction.
  • We do not add a quote of our own. You get direct supplier terms. You get direct terms on every layer of it.
What else we handle
  • ComputeReserved capacity when the workload genuinely needs it.Compute
  • Space and powerColocation and density if you are deploying your own hardware.Space & power
  • Networking and endpointsSwitching, optics, cabling, security refresh, laptops shipped configured.Hardware & capacity
  • Asset recoverySecure decommissioning, data destruction and buyback on retired estate.
What a deal looks like

From board mandate to running infrastructure.

Enterprise AI purchases fail in procurement more often than they fail in engineering. The requirement crosses four vendor categories: compute, networking, licensing and endpoints, and each category has its own channel, its own paper and its own timeline. Run separately, the timelines never converge. Run as one accountable engagement, the security review happens once, the paper is consistent, and the delivery dates are allowed to depend on each other because one desk owns all of them.

We start with what the board actually asked for, which is usually a capability rather than a cluster. Right-sizing at this stage is where most of the money is: the difference between the cluster the integrator quoted and the cluster the workload needs is often the entire budget for the rest of the stack.

Everything is structured to survive review: named counterparties, verifiable compliance, defined support obligations, and an audit trail from requirement to acceptance. If your security team wants to see export-control screening before anything ships, that is not friction, that is our default order of operations.

Operations room overlooking an enterprise data hall
Straight answers

The questions this desk gets first.

Can this run through our existing procurement process?

Yes. We fit your process rather than replacing it: your vendor onboarding, your security review, your paper where required. What changes is that one accountable counterparty stands behind the whole stack instead of six vendors pointing at each other.

We have a preferred integrator. Where do you fit?

Alongside them. Integrators build; we source and structure. Where an integrator quotes hardware at list through their own channel, we put the same hardware on direct terms and let the integrator do what they are good at.

Does this work for on-premises requirements?

Yes. On-prem, colocation or hybrid: the sourcing logic is the same. For on-prem we also cover the parts enterprises forget to budget: power and cooling upgrades, structured cabling, and secure decommissioning of what the new kit replaces.

What does an engagement cost us?

The engagement itself, nothing. You transact with suppliers on their direct terms, and our compensation comes from the supply side under disclosed referral agreements. The first call is twenty minutes and does not end in a quote.

How we get paid

You pay the supplier direct.

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Here’s exactly what happens.

01Twenty minutes.

The mandate, the constraint, the timeline, and who has to approve it.

02We come back by a date.

With a right-sized shortlist and the evidence your review process will ask for.

03You decide.

We introduce and stay accountable. No cost at any point.

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Access policy

We turn work away.

A desk that never declines anything is selling something. Ours is not. Stated up front, so nobody spends a week finding out.

Open to

The party running the workload

Whoever's workload occupies the capacity and whose balance sheet stands behind the term, or an advisor they name in writing.

Structure

One layer, never two

You contract directly with the OEM, ODM, distributor, cloud or facility. We are not in the chain and we do not add one.

Compliance

KYC before any introduction

Run first, not after the commercial terms. It is why suppliers quote our buyers real numbers instead of screening quotes.

Declined

Positions assembled to flip

Brokers and resellers without a nameable end user do not get a file. If a requirement is wrong for the desk, we say so in the first reply.

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Working through this on a real requirement?

Twenty minutes with the desk, no pitch and no quote at the end of it. Tell us roughly what you need and we will come back within one business day.

Acknowledged within one hour, first sourcing pass within one business day.
✓

Sent. We are on it.

Your enquiry has landed with the desk. Acknowledged within one hour.