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The Opportunity Is Bigger Than Most Businesses Are Ready For.

Devonport, the Freeport, marine autonomy, a national defence investment wave. Plymouth is entering a decade few UK cities will see. The businesses that win won’t be the biggest. They’ll be the ones who can scale with confidence when it arrives, without losing control while they do it.

Est. 2008
18 years, same leadership
NPS 90+
client satisfaction
30 min
critical first response

★★★★★ 120+ five-star Google reviews  ·  A 90-day service guarantee, so switching is the safe decision

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Certification
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Trusted Cyber Partner
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Six pressures, one moment

Opportunity this big arrives on its own schedule. Your IT has to be ready when it does.

Devonport’s naval base, the Plymouth and South Devon Freeport, and a near-£300bn national defence investment plan are pulling Plymouth businesses toward growth few could have planned for. That creates pressure most reactive IT was never built to handle.

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Recruitment pace

Hiring faster than IT can onboard means new starters waiting on access, not working.

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Multi-site onboarding

A new Freeport site needs to be secure and connected from day one, not month three.

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Procurement gates

Defence primes and government contracts arrive with security requirements attached, not optional.

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Multi-partner collaboration

Working across industry, academia and government means sharing data securely with people outside your walls.

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Governance under pressure

Control gets looser exactly when it matters most, in the middle of rapid expansion.

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Downtime cost

A live opportunity window makes an outage cost more than it ever would in ordinary times.

Why Plymouth is different

A city built on Devonport, the Freeport and marine autonomy

Three engines are driving Plymouth’s decade, and the businesses around them are being asked to scale faster than most ever have.

Devonport
Western Europe’s largest naval base
The Freeport
South Yard, Langage and Sherford
Marine autonomy
A nationally recognised cluster

Wherever you sit around them, the technology question is the same: can you scale without losing control?

One accountable partner

New sites, new people, new risks. One team answering for all of it.

When IT, security and strategy sit with different suppliers, every new site multiplies the coordination problem. TS Complete removes the ambiguity: one team runs your support, watches your security around the clock, and answers for both, wherever the opportunity takes you next.

We’ve had the pleasure of collaborating with Tomlinson Solutions on a number of events, training sessions and client projects across Plymouth. Every experience has been positive, energised and insightful, and they bring a genuinely practical approach to IT, cyber security and helping local businesses move forward.

Ollie Jackman

Co-founder, Agile Comms · Plymouth

The package & the difference

Many providers stop at the service desk. We start there.

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Pillar 01Service Desk

Fast, friendly help from a named South West team, scaled to onboard people as fast as you're hiring them, not weeks behind.

What the desk learns feeds Technology Health

02

Pillar 02Security Operations

A 24×7 security operations centre built for procurement gates and multi-partner collaboration, containing threats automatically in around ten minutes.

What the SOC sees feeds your roadmap

03

Pillar 03Technology Health

A platform built to connect a new site fast and securely, whether that's a second office or a Freeport unit, without starting from scratch each time.

Health data shapes investment decisions

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Pillar 04Virtual IT Director

A senior technologist in the room while you scale, keeping governance and control intact even as headcount, sites and partners multiply at once.

Strategy sets the bar for every pillar above

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Pillar 05The Improvement Loop

The fifth pillar exists so the other four compound, so readiness keeps pace as the opportunity evolves, not just at the start.

The loop feeds back to the start: readiness that holds, not just readiness on day one.

Not a list of services

What you actually get

People who can just work

Fast, root-cause support that scales with your headcount instead of lagging behind it.

Included

Security you can evidence

Certifications and monitoring that pass procurement, not just satisfy a checklist after the fact.

CE Plus

Microsoft 365 under control

Licensing, identity and data governance managed properly as headcount grows fast.

Managed

Sites that behave as one

A new office, a Freeport unit, a home worker, all on one secure, consistently managed platform.

Multi-site

A plan and a budget

A technology roadmap that scales with the opportunity, not one written for the business you were last year.

Roadmap

Recovery you can trust

Backups tested, continuity rehearsed, so a live opportunity window never turns into a lost one.

Tested
Before Tomlinson · After Tomlinson

What actually changes when you scale

XNo plan for onboarding a second site
A platform built to add sites fast, securely
XIT can’t keep pace with hiring
Onboarding that scales with recruitment, not behind it
XGovernance gets looser as you grow
Control that holds as you scale, not just at the start
XSecurity bolted on after winning the contract
Evidence-ready before the procurement gate arrives
Switching, without the drama

Ninety days to prove it

Day 1

Free assessment

We map your environment, risks and quick wins before anything changes.

Day 30

Standardise & secure

Devices, Microsoft 365 and backup brought onto one managed, secured platform.

Day 90

Ready to scale

Your plan is written, reviews are running, and the platform is built to add the next site, not just support this one.

A 90-day service guarantee tied to the service levels we commit to, inside a standard 12 to 36 month term. The commitment is earned, not assumed.

Commitments & proof

Clear targets, and the numbers behind them

Priority

Example

First response

P1 · Critical

Site down, security incident

30 min

P2 · High

Key system unusable

1 hour

P3 · Standard

Workaround available

4 hours

P4 · Minor

Requests & changes

8 hours

Four tiers, matched to real urgency, not one number for everything. Most support requests are resolved remotely within minutes, reducing unnecessary site visits. When something is genuinely critical, at 9am or 9pm, a 30-minute clock starts and our team is accountable to it. Helpdesk targets are measured 08:00 to 18:00, Monday to Friday, with the security operations centre running 24×7 as a separate, always-on workflow. This quarter we are delivering 99% first response and 99% resolution against target.

Winner

Torbay Business Awards 2026, Innovation

120+

five-star Google reviews

NPS 90+

client satisfaction score

Est. 2008

18 years, same leadership

Founded in 2008 by Ian Tomlinson, who remains CEO, with Troy Wheeler as Managing Director since 2021. See the businesses we support →

Certified & recognised

Helping businesses across Plymouth, Exeter and the wider South West

Independently certified, formally recognised, and accountable to the numbers above, since 2008.

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Good to know

Frequently asked questions

Start with an honest baseline against the controls buyers actually ask about, identity and MFA, patching, backup testing, incident response, then close the gaps in priority order. We hold Cyber Essentials Plus ourselves and guide clients through Cyber Essentials certification, the credential most procurement processes look for first.
Yes, that’s exactly the scenario this service is built for. New sites join the same secure, centrally managed platform as your existing one, so you’re not starting IT from scratch every time you expand.
Onboarding is built to scale with recruitment, not lag behind it. New starters get access and equipment set up as fast as HR can bring them in, not weeks later.
No. We’re on the A38 corridor into Plymouth, and most support is delivered remotely, faster for it. For new-site setup and hands-on work, we come to you.
A structured process: a free assessment, a transition plan built around your working patterns, documentation, security checks, Microsoft 365 and backup review, and a 90-day service guarantee tied to the service levels we commit to, inside a standard 12 to 36 month term.
Plymouth’s strategic technology partner

Scale With Confidence When Opportunity Arrives

Start with a free 30-minute strategy session. Tell us where the opportunity is taking you, and we’ll tell you, honestly, whether we’re the right fit.