The brief
Managed Service Providers work in Houston
Houston has a deep bench of managed service providers. The large national firms are here, the regional providers that grew out of the oil and gas support economy are here, and a long tail of owner operators and small break fix shops that added managed contracts are here too. The demand comes from the same mix as the local economy: energy, engineering, logistics, healthcare and the professional services firms that serve them, plus the small businesses along the Beltway that want somebody local to answer the phone. Paid search in this trade is expensive because a managed contract is worth a lot over its life, so the firms with budget bid hard on the obvious terms. That leaves the specific searches, the ones tied to a district, an industry or a problem, as the ground where a provider can be found without outbidding anybody.
