Services

Why customers consolidate to a single Maxicom engagement

Concentration risk reduction is the most-cited reason. A single SOW covering the full Canada footprint (and where applicable, cross-border into UAE, India, Singapore, Canada, Hong Kong) is operationally simpler than coordinating multiple regional vendor panels. Maxicom's 30-year continuous operation since 1996 provides reference depth that newer ITAD entrants cannot match. Per-asset certificate format is regulator-acceptable on first review at every Canada regulator we have served. Cross-border resale routing under NDA preserves channel-respect for OEM-partner engagements. Programme engagements run on multi-year master service agreements with quarterly business reviews; single-event engagements close in duration documented in the SOW from signed engagement to settled PO.

How the engagement model composes across this catalog

Most Canada engagements combine multiple items from this catalog. A typical Tier-1 BFSI refresh: server buyback + laptop fleet buyback + data destruction + decommissioning + reverse logistics, all under one programme SOW. A typical hyperscale tenant exit: data-centre decommissioning + GPU buyback (via the AI Hardware Desk) + structured cabling reclaim + multi-vendor ITAD governance. A typical M&A IT divestiture: full-estate buyback + asset valuation + per-asset Certificate of Destruction with witness destruction for top-classified material. Every engagement settles in CAD against your purchase order, with line-item invoicing your finance team understands. Quote validity follows the asset class — 14 days for steady-state enterprise hardware, 5 business days for AI accelerators where the secondary market re-prices weekly.

Regulator alignment for Canada engagements

Universal: NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 1, IEEE 2883-2022, DoD 5220.22-M (where contractually specified), NAID-grade Protocol. Region-specific: NIST 800-88 · PIPEDA · OSFI B-13 · NAID-grade · IEEE 2883-2022. BFSI engagements add OSFI B-13; personal-data processing under PIPEDA. Per-asset Certificate of Destruction is admissible against all simultaneously — one document covers every framework an auditor in Canada is likely to ask about. Sample certificates available on NDA before engagement signing; the eleven required fields (serial, make/model, data classification, sanitisation method, particle size or field strength, tool + verification, UTC timestamp, operator + ID, witness if present, chain-of-custody reference, destruction reason where Reuse-First overridden) pass every audit-defensibility test.

Reuse-First disposition KPI we report back

Programme engagements receive quarterly business reviews covering: total tonnage processed, Reuse-First reuse rate (% refurbished + redeployed vs % destroyed by media class), residual value recovered in CAD, embodied-carbon-recovered estimate (CO₂e avoided by keeping working assets in service rather than replacing them), diversion-from-landfill percentage, material-recovery breakdown, exception reporting. Single-event engagements receive the same data as a per-engagement summary attached to the consolidated certificate. The reuse rate metric is the most informative KPI: our blended 2024-2025 cohort runs at 67%; programme engagements typically improve year-over-year as the engagement learns the asset mix. Reporting format mapped to your sustainability framework — CSRD ESRS E5, ISSB IFRS S1/S2, BRSR Principle 6, GRI 301/305/306, SASB IT services standards.