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2025 Managed IT Services Cost & Pricing Guide

You’ve probably heard about how managed IT services saves businesses money and are wondering if that’s possible for your organization too. This guide will help walk you through different pricing strategies and costs you can expect.

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Managed AI Services

AI readiness, enablement, and optimization 

Getting serious about AI? We’ll help get you on the right path. 

Organizations turn to VC3 for
Managed AI Services when they...

Have bought off-the-shelf AI tools but lack internal expertise to configure, govern, and maintain them
Have bought off-the-shelf AI tools but lack internal expertise to configure, govern, and maintain them
Have disorganized, scattered, and hard-to-use data that prevents them from leveraging AI
Have disorganized, scattered, and hard-to-use data that prevents them from leveraging AI
Have concerns about AI data privacy, security, and compliance risks
Have concerns about AI data privacy, security, and compliance risks
Lack clear rules, accountability, and oversight for their AI adoption
Lack clear rules, accountability, and oversight for their AI adoption
Seek to leverage AI for increasing employee efficiency
Seek to leverage AI for increasing employee efficiency

What Are Managed AI Services, and Why Do I Need Them?

Many organizations are already experimenting with AI tools like ChatGPT or Copilot, often without clear policies, secure environments, or confidence that their data is ready. That’s where Managed AI Services come in.

Managed AI Services help organizations adopt and use artificial intelligence safely, intentionally, and effectively—without introducing unnecessary risk. We help you understand whether your data and permissions are ready for AI, establish clear rules for how AI should be used, and deploy secure AI tools and assistants that solve real, everyday problems.

Instead of adhoc experimentation, Managed AI Services give you clarity, control, and confidence—so you can unlock AI’s benefits while protecting your organization, your data, and your people.

Do AI Right: Build the Right Foundation, Policies, and Tools

Diving into AI headfirst without assessing your readiness risks data privacy, cybersecurity, and compliance issues.

VC3 can assess your AI readiness, create customized policies aligned with current AI standards, provide secure AI chat to ensure data privacy and security when inputting data, and offer various AI assistants that can help you with specialized tasks.

AI Assessment

Our assessment analyzes your data structures, compares them against current AI and industry best practices, and gives you a series of recommendations.

For organizations that:

  • Don’t know if their data is ready for AI
  • Worry about exposing sensitive or regulated data
  • Lack a baseline to make smart AI decisions 

AI Policy Creation

We help you establish safe, consistent, and compliant AI adoption with policies rooted in industry standards.

For organizations that:

  • Don’t have any formal rules for AI use
  • Are unprepared if someone misuses AI
  • Are concerned about compliance, fairness, and trust 

AI Secure Chat

Empower employees to use AI safely and efficiently with a secure, centralized hub that unifies multiple AI chat tools—without risking data exposure.

For organizations that:

  • Have AI usage fragmented across too many tools
  • Worry that employees may accidentally expose sensitive information
  • Don’t want employees using personal AI accounts for work 

AI Municipal Assistants

Turn municipal knowledge—minutes, policies, SOPs, records, and documents—into instant, searchable intelligence that empowers staff and improves resident service.

For organizations that:

  • Feel employees spend too much time searching for information
  • Answer the same employee and resident questions over and over
  • Fear losing institutional knowledge 

The capacity, skill set, and experience to help you AIM higher.

  • Accelerated AI Readiness & Enablement

    We give you a structured, standards‑based approach that helps you move from AI experimentation to real‑world use—without exposing your organization to unnecessary risk.

  • Secure, Expert‑Led Support

    Our team understands AI, data security, governance, and workflows—supporting you through assessment, policy creation, secure chat, and AI assistant deployment. 

  • Predictable, Controlled AI Spend

    Avoid fragmented tools, duplicate licenses, and adhoc AI purchases. We help you centralize and manage AI adoption so your costs stay visible and predictable.

  • Practical, Purpose‑Built AI

    No hype or one‑size‑fits‑all tools. We deliver right‑sized AI solutions—such as secure chat and AI assistants—designed to solve real, everyday challenges.

  • A Proactive, Long‑Term AI Strategy

    AI isn’t a one‑time project. We help you establish a foundation that evolves as tools, risks, and best practices change—making sure your AI solutions remain secure and effective today and tomorrow.

  • Fast Deployment

    Our structured onboarding approach quickly moves you from AI readiness to secure, real‑world use—without introducing unnecessary risk.

What Our Clients Are Saying

We hadn’t seen anyone like VC3 before.

I was pleasantly surprised by VC3’s remote IT support and how well it served our city. We learned the hard way that we needed a vendor that helped us stay secure from ransomware and cyberattacks, update and patch everything constantly, and stay on top of IT issues. With VC3, everything is getting done. You don’t know what you’re missing if you’ve never seen it before—and we hadn’t seen anyone like VC3 before.

Captain Jeff Swain
Isle of Palms Police Department, SC

Great working relationship.

We have such a great working relationship and we’re always talking about the next thing. Chris and VC3 are my trusted advisors.

Lucy Papp, CFO
Stollery Children's Hospital

They placed us in a position to better service our staff.

When it comes to establishing an effective IT infrastructure, consulting experienced professionals is the first and most important step. It is one we are glad to have taken with VC3 as they placed us in a position to better service our staff and the residents of our city.

Police Chief Christopher Hodge
City of Auburn, Georgia

VC3 has so far been the most enjoyable.

I've been working with outsourcing partners since 1998 and working with VC3 has so far been the most enjoyable and least painful experience.

 
Gabor Szentivanyi, Chief Information Officer
Kymera International

Our Strategic Advisor has always been a fantastic advocate for us.

Our Strategic Advisor has always been a fantastic advocate for us. If we do have issues, he’s a reasonable voice that is very good at seeing our perspective and helping us see it through.

Karl McCollester, IT Consultant
City of Sumter, SC

Our approach to technology enables your organization to AIM Higher.

Lots of companies can set up your laptops or manage your infrastructure. In order to contend with today's challenges, you need more than a break-fix vendor with a "24/7" help desk ticket to nowhere. You need a proactive partner that stops the issues before they start. That's where VC3 comes in.

Let's talk about how VC3 can help you AIM higher.