Rate Card · 2026 Edition
Consulting, training & digital services pricing
Sawyers Global Solutions fronts international and commercial defence engagements on the same rate card and quality bar as ISC, with a documented international engagement premium. Headline rates in GBP, with EUR and USD indicators for NATO and allied procurement.
How we engage
Most engagements follow three steps, each with a defined cost and deliverable. The Initial Discussion is the standard entry point; scoping turns a requirement into a fixed plan before any larger commitment.
| Product | Price | Duration | What it covers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Initial DiscussionStandard entry point. Teams / Zoom / Webex. | £400+ VAT | 1 hour | Structured 60-minute video call. Confidential, NDA on request. Client context, requirement summary, regulatory and technical considerations, indicative scope and price band. Written summary within 3 working days. |
| Extended DiscussionDeeper technical scoping conversation. | £750+ VAT | 2 hours | Two-hour call for requirements spanning more than one workstream, multiple stakeholders, or significant technical depth. Written summary and indicative scope outline. |
| Light ScopingSingle-workstream engagement. | £950+ VAT | 5 working days | Fixed-fee consulting plan: requirement statement, deliverables, methodology, milestones, named-tier price, assumptions, risk register, data-gap declaration. 3–5 pages. One revision. |
| Full ScopingMulti-workstream engagement. | £2,750+ VAT | 10 working days | All Light Scoping plus stakeholder mapping, two-tier price options, phased delivery plan, governance proposal, KPI definition, change control. 8–12 pages. Two revisions. |
| Programme ScopingMulti-stream, multi-vendor programmes. | From £6,500+ VAT | 15–20 working days | All Full Scoping plus vendor / capability landscape, comparative options analysis, governance and reporting architecture, indicative statement-of-work templates, risk heat-map. |
Consulting day rates
Four practice tiers spanning strategic advisory, technical WOME work, NATO procurement analysis, and investigative research. Per day, exclusive of VAT and travel & subsistence. Minimum engagement: half a day (50% of the full day rate).
| Tier | GBP / day | EUR / day | USD / day |
|---|---|---|---|
| Associate ConsultantResearch, dossier preparation, analyst support, OSINT collection. | £650+ VAT | €770 | $840 |
| Senior ConsultantWOME analysis, NATO procurement review, regulatory mapping, programme studies. | £1,150+ VAT | €1,360 | $1,490 |
| Principal SpecialistSenior technical authority, ammunition technical intelligence, NATO QA gap analysis. | £1,500+ VAT | €1,770 | $1,945 |
| Director / Strategic AdvisorBoard-level advisory, strategy, NATO / MOD engagement, public-statement work. | £1,950+ VAT | €2,300 | $2,530 |
Fixed-price consulting products
The smallest scope accepted in each category. Smaller pieces of work are handled inside a retainer or pre-paid block.
| Product | Price | Turnaround | Scope & deliverables |
|---|---|---|---|
| Procurement Bid ReviewSingle submission, vendor or buyer side. | £4,500+ VAT | 10 working days | Structured assessment of one defence procurement bid against AQAP / STANAG / contract specification. PDF report, marked-up submission, recommendations register, one 90-minute findings call. |
| Independent Technical ReviewVendor capability or single technology / system. | £8,500+ VAT | 15 working days | Independent assessment against published standards with safety, plausibility, and data-gap commentary. For buyer-side acquisition decisions or vendor-side white-paper validation. |
| NATO QA Gap AnalysisOrganisation against AQAP-2110 / ISO 9001 Cl. 7.2. | £12,500+ VAT | 20 working days | Full QA framework audit against the current AQAP suite, STANAG 4107 and ISO 9001:2015. Findings report, corrective-action register, executive briefing pack. |
| Regulatory Compliance DossierSingle technology, single jurisdiction. | £9,500+ VAT | 15 working days | Export-control assessment (ITAR / EAR / UK Export Control Act) for a defined technology, end-user and jurisdiction, with treaty-obligation mapping and precedent analysis. Not legal advice. |
| Investigative Research DossierOSINT investigation, single subject or thematic. | £6,500+ VAT | 10 working days | STANAG 2022 source-rated dossier with bias register and data-gap declaration. Suitable for due-diligence, journalism, and prosecution-support contexts. |
| Strategic Monitoring RetainerAnnual subscription, monthly reporting. | From £18,000+ VAT | per year | Tailored monitoring of a defined topic, programme, or competitor set. Monthly written report, quarterly review call, ad-hoc alerts on triggering events. |
Discounts & loadings
Applied to day rates by written agreement.
| Modifier | Effect |
|---|---|
| Block rate (10+ days) | −7.5% on day rates committed in advance |
| Framework / panel engagement | −10% inside a multi-year master agreement |
| Annual retainer (24+ days) | −12.5% plus first-call priority access |
| International engagement (SGS) | +15% on day rates plus travel & subsistence where delivered outside UK / EU |
| Out-of-hours / weekend | +50% loading |
| Short-notice (under 72 hours) | +25% for the first engagement week |
| Discount stacking cap | Combined discounts capped at −22.5% on day rates |
Training: course design
One-off fixed-price course design. Delivery is priced separately below.
| Course length | Fixed price | What's delivered |
|---|---|---|
| Half-day awareness3-hour briefing format. | £1,500+ VAT | Trainer guide, 30-slide deck, handout pack, one revision. |
| One-day specialistStandalone WOME / regulatory / OSINT topic. | £3,500+ VAT | Trainer guide, 60-slide deck, delegate workbook, exercise set, one revision. |
| Three-day foundationMulti-module structured course. | £9,500+ VAT | Trainer guide, module decks, workbook, knowledge-check assessments, two revisions. |
| Five-day advancedCranfield-comparable depth. | £16,500+ VAT | Full module decks, comprehensive workbook, formative + summative assessments, case studies, CPD accreditation support. |
| E-learning / SCORM modulePer finished learning hour. | £7,500+ VAT | SCORM 1.2 / 2004 package, video, branching scenarios, knowledge checks, LMS-ready. Complex simulation +50–100%. |
Training: delivery
Three delivery models plus executive briefings and one-to-one coaching. Figures exclude VAT, venue hire and travel.
| Format | GBP | EUR | USD | Inclusions & group size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open enrolmentPer delegate, per day. | £895+ VAT | €1,055 | $1,160 | Minimum 6 delegates to run, maximum 18. Workbook, refreshments, CPD certificate. Venue billed separately. |
| Closed cohortClient-site, per day, up to 15. | £4,950+ VAT | €5,840 | $6,420 | Single organisation, client-site delivery, supplied workbooks. Trainer travel at cost. Delegates 16–25: +£165 / delegate / day. |
| Executive briefingBoard / C-suite, half day (3 hours). | £3,500+ VAT | €4,130 | $4,540 | Up to 12 attendees. Tailored to the client's strategic question. Briefing pack, 90-minute facilitated discussion, follow-up note. |
| One-to-one coachingIndividual development, monthly. | £2,250+ VAT | €2,655 | $2,915 | Two 90-minute sessions per month, asynchronous review of submitted work, monthly progress note. 3-month minimum. |
Virtual / hybrid delivery: −20% on the equivalent in-person rate (minimum 8 delegates for virtual open enrolment). International delivery outside UK / EU (SGS-fronted): +25% on the delivery price, with travel, visa and insurance at cost.
Scheduled open-enrolment courses
Per-delegate pricing for the published course calendar.
| Course | Length | Per delegate | Cadence |
|---|---|---|---|
| WOME Foundations | 2 days | £1,790 | Quarterly cohorts, London + virtual |
| NATO Procurement & AQAP Compliance | 3 days | £2,685 | Bi-annual cohorts, London + virtual |
| OSINT for Defence Analysts | 2 days | £1,790 | Quarterly cohorts, virtual-first |
| Explosive Safety & Regulatory Update | 1 day | £895 | Bi-annual update cycle, virtual |
| Investigative Research & Source Evaluation (STANAG 2022) | 2 days | £1,790 | Annual cohort |
Website design & build
Delivered in-house on the same self-hosted stack that powers this site.
| Package | Fixed price | Build time | Scope |
|---|---|---|---|
| Specialist Brochure5–8 pages, professional services. | £4,950+ VAT | 4–5 weeks | Bespoke design, CMS or static-site generator, contact form, SEO baseline, full legal pack, one revision. |
| Defence / Consultancy Standard10–20 pages, custom CMS. | £12,500+ VAT | 6–8 weeks | All Brochure plus insights / blog architecture, structured-data SEO suite, case-study templates, Cloudflare CDN, two revisions. |
| Bespoke Authority Site25–40 pages, full content architecture. | £28,500+ VAT | 10–14 weeks | All Standard plus multi-pillar taxonomy, interactive elements, gated lead-gen, newsletter integration, full GEO / AEO schema, three revisions. |
| Enterprise / Multilingual40+ pages, multilingual, integrations. | From £55,000+ VAT | 14–20 weeks | All Bespoke plus multilingual content, CRM and marketing-automation integration, custom API endpoints, advanced security audit, account manager. |
Website maintenance
Monthly retainers.
| Tier | GBP / month | Included hours | What's covered |
|---|---|---|---|
| CareHosting, updates, backups. | £165+ VAT | 30 min | Cloudflare-fronted hosting, monthly updates, weekly backups, security monitoring, monthly uptime report, email support. |
| OperateCare plus content + analytics. | £395+ VAT | 2 hours | All Care plus monthly content edits, Analytics / Search Console review, one-page monthly performance report. |
| ManageOperate plus production + SLA. | £1,250+ VAT | 8 hours | All Operate plus monthly content production, staging environment, 4-hour critical SLA, quarterly strategy call. |
| PremierCritical-revenue platform, full SLA. | £2,950+ VAT | 20 hours | All Manage plus monthly content sprint, 2-hour SLA, Core Web Vitals optimisation, account manager, monthly executive report. |
Google SEO
One-off audits and monthly retainers.
| Service | GBP | Scope |
|---|---|---|
| SEO Audit (SME)Site under 100 pages, one-off. | £1,950+ VAT | Technical + on-page audit, keyword opportunity map, competitor SERP scan, 30-page PDF with priority actions. 5 working days. |
| SEO Audit (Enterprise)Site 500+ pages, one-off. | £6,500+ VAT | All SME audit plus log-file and JavaScript-rendering analysis, full schema review, internal-link graph, content-gap analysis, 60+ pages, findings call. 15 working days. |
| Local / Single-LocationSMB, local-pack focus, monthly. | £695+ VAT | Google Business Profile optimisation, local citations, monthly content, ranking + traffic report, quarterly call. 6-month minimum. |
| National SMEMid-market, multi-keyword, monthly. | £1,995+ VAT | Technical optimisation, two content pieces / month, on-page improvements, internal linking, monthly report, quarterly call. 6-month minimum. |
| Mid-Market Full ServiceMulti-pillar national / specialist, monthly. | £3,950+ VAT | All National plus digital PR / link-building, content-cluster strategy, advanced schema, monthly strategy call, conversion optimisation. 12-month minimum. |
| Enterprise Technical SEOLarge, technical-heavy site, monthly. | From £6,950+ VAT | Custom scope, technical lead, content team, monthly digital PR, log-file monitoring, schema governance, account manager. 12-month minimum. |
AI-SEO: generative and answer-engine optimisation
Visibility in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Google AI Overviews and Copilot.
| Service | GBP | What's delivered |
|---|---|---|
| LLM Visibility AuditOne-off baseline measurement. | £2,950+ VAT | Citation baseline across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Google AI Overviews and Copilot. 100 priority prompts, competitor share-of-voice, entity review, PDF + findings call. |
| GEO StarterSME, single brand, monthly. | £2,495+ VAT | Monthly llms.txt + robots.txt management, schema rollout, two answer-first content pieces, citation tracking dashboard, quarterly review. 6-month minimum. |
| GEO + Google SEO CombinedIntegrated programme, monthly. | £4,950+ VAT | National SME Google SEO plus GEO Starter as one programme with a shared content roadmap. Priced below two standalone retainers. |
| Mid-Market GEOMulti-brand, multi-language, monthly. | £6,950+ VAT | All GEO Starter plus five answer-first pieces / month, prompt-gap engineering, digital PR for high-grade citations, entity-graph build, monthly call. |
| Enterprise GEO GovernanceEnterprise, regulated industry, monthly. | From £12,500+ VAT | All Mid-Market plus governance framework, AI-search risk register, brand-safety monitoring, content moderation, dedicated GEO lead, executive report. 12-month minimum. |
Partnership Support retainers
Ongoing low-friction access without a fresh scoping cycle each time. Minimum 3-month commitment, then month-to-month with 30 days notice.
| Tier | GBP / month | Included hours | Overage | What it covers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BronzeLightweight support, quick questions. | £750+ VAT | 2 hrs / mo | £350/ hour | Email responses within 2 working days, up to two short calls per month, quick reports up to 2 pages. Unused hours roll 30 days. |
| SilverRegular advisory access. | £1,950+ VAT | 6 hrs / mo | £325/ hour | All Bronze plus monthly 60-minute review call, reports up to 5 pages, document review up to 5,000 words, 1-working-day response. Roll 60 days. |
| GoldEmbedded advisor relationship. | £3,750+ VAT | 12 hrs / mo | £300/ hour | All Silver plus bi-weekly 30-minute calls, reports up to 10 pages, document review up to 15,000 words, same-day response, private analyst-notes archive. Roll 90 days. |
Partnership Support pre-paid blocks
Down-payment model for irregular but predictable advisory needs.
| Block | GBP one-off | Effective rate | Validity | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter Block10 hours pre-paid. | £3,500+ VAT | £350 / hr | 12 months | On-demand access without a monthly retainer. Use any time within 12 months. |
| Standard Block25 hours pre-paid. | £8,250+ VAT | £330 / hr | 18 months | Volume-discounted. Suits predictable but irregular advisory needs. |
| Programme Block50 hours pre-paid. | £15,000+ VAT | £300 / hr | 24 months | Deepest discount. Includes one annual face-to-face strategy session (travel billed separately). |
Packaged bundles
Pre-packaged entry products, each priced around 10–15% below the equivalent menu cost of its parts. Customisable on request without losing the discount.
Bundle 01 · Discovery
Defence Decision Pack
£4,950
+ VAT · one-off
- Subject-specific OSINT dossier
- Regulatory exposure note
- NATO / MOD precedent scan
- 90-minute facilitated findings call
- Recommended next-engagement scoping
Bundle 02 · Most Popular
Capability Authority Pack
£18,500
+ VAT · quarterly
- Independent Technical Review of one capability
- 2-day client-site training cohort (up to 15)
- One sponsored white paper on ISC Defence Media
- 3 months Corporate subscription (5 seats)
- Quarterly executive briefing call
Bundle 03 · Annual
Premier Partnership
From £62,500
+ VAT · annual
- Annual Strategic Monitoring Retainer (12 reports)
- 24 days of consulting time (block rate)
- Annual Programme Sponsor slot (ISC Media)
- Enterprise subscription (25 seats)
- Premier-tier website maintenance
- Annual GEO + Google SEO programme
Defence media & subscriptions
Published by our partner brand
Daily WOME intelligence, reader subscriptions, white papers and sponsorship are delivered through ISC Defence Intelligence, the UK / NATO-facing partner brand under the same ownership. See the ISC rate card for media and subscription pricing.
Standard commercial terms
The default frame for every engagement. Variations by written agreement.
- Currency & VAT
- Headline rates in GBP, exclusive of UK VAT (currently 20%). EUR / USD fixed at the European Central Bank monthly reference rate plus a 2% FX spread on the invoice date. UK clients invoiced GBP + VAT; EU business clients under reverse-charge rules; non-EU clients excluding VAT.
- Payment terms
- Fixed-price products: 50% on signature, 50% on delivery, net-14. Retainers: monthly in arrears, net-14. Day rates: invoiced monthly, net-14. Open-enrolment courses: full payment 7 days before. International engagements: 50% on signature, 50% on demobilisation, net-7.
- Travel & subsistence
- Billed at cost plus 10% administration. UK domestic at HMRC approved rates; international at economy airfare plus reasonable subsistence per UK government overseas rates.
- Cancellation
- Fixed-price: 50% non-refundable on signature, balance refundable up to 5 working days before start. Day-rate: under 24 hours 100%, under 48 hours 50%, under 5 working days 25%, beyond that no charge. Retainers: 30 days notice. Committed travel billed at cost regardless.
- Intellectual property
- ISC and SGS methodologies, templates and frameworks remain our property. Clients own bespoke outputs; we retain a non-exclusive licence to reference anonymised work in case studies unless excluded in writing.
- Confidentiality
- Standard mutual NDA available, default duration 5 years from disclosure. Client identity, scope and substantive findings are not disclosed without written consent.
- Quality & sourcing
- All analytical products pass an eight-pillar quality-control review plus AI-detection self-critique on text outputs. Evidence is rated to NATO STANAG 2022 (reliability A–F, accuracy 1–6), with a source register supplied on every formal deliverable.
- Insurance & liability
- Professional indemnity £2m per claim / £5m aggregate; public liability £5m; cyber liability £1m. Liability under any single engagement is capped at the greater of fees paid in the preceding 12 months or £100,000. Statutory liabilities are not capped.
- Governing law
- UK engagements under the law of England and Wales. International engagements default to English law with a London arbitration seat under LCIA Rules unless otherwise agreed. Business-to-business only.
- Scope of advice
- Outputs are analytical products and do not constitute legal, regulatory, financial or investment advice. All work is OPEN SOURCE / UNCLASSIFIED and AI-assisted unless agreed otherwise in writing. Instruct qualified professionals before acting on matters with legal or financial consequences.
Prices exclude UK VAT and are subject to the standard commercial terms above. SGS-fronted international engagements carry a +15% engagement premium plus travel and subsistence. Reviewed annually on 1 July. Prepared with AI assistance using open-source material.