Response Times (SLA’s)

Managed Services Response Times

Trouble Priority Response Time
8:30am–5:30pm
Response Time
5:30pm–8:30am
Service not available (all users and functions unavailable. Ex: Server down).* 1 – Remote within 1 hour
– On-Site within 3 hours
– Remote within 2 hours
– On-Site within 4 hours
Significant degradation of service (large number of users or business critical functions affected).* 2 – Remote within 2 hours
– On-Site within 4 hours
– Remote within 4 hours
– On-Site within 6 hours
Limited degradation of service (limited number of users or functions affected, business process can continue).** 3 – Remote within 8 hours
– On-Site within 48 hours
– Remote within 16 hours
– On-Site NBD
Small service degradation (business process can continue, one user affected).** 4 – Remote within 24 hours
– On-Site within 72 hours
– Remote within 24 hours
– On-Site within 72 hours

*For same day services on priority 3 and 4 tickets must be entered before 4pm.
**Clients may request a specific technician however, XCD IT will at its discretion, assign a technician to address a service ticket or project work.

These response times apply to all clients on our managed IT services.

EXCLUSIONS FROM MANAGED SERVICES

The following is a list of costs, expenses, charges or services explicitly excluded from the Managed Services listed in any MSA executed by the Client. The below is not meant to constitute a complete list, and any cost, expense, charge, or service that is not specifically listed and explicitly included in an executed MSA is excluded from Managed Services by definition:

  • Any parts, equipment, or hardware costs, fees or charges of any kind
  • Any software, licensing, software assurance, renewal, or upgrade fees of any kind
  • Any taxes of any kind
  • Any shipping, handling, courier, or postage charges of any kind
  • Any 3rd party vendor, OEM, or other manufacturer support fees or incident fees of any kind
  • Any premise wiring services (voice/data/video cabling) of any kind
  • Training of any person in any context, unless otherwise specified
  • Travel, travel time, parking, fuel or mileage, per diem or accommodations, when applicable, when visiting Client offices or any other third-party site on Client’s behalf
  • Any non-IT materials needed to provide services or requested by the Client, including but not limited to office supplies or media
  • Any type of service, repair, reconfiguration, maintenance, or management occasioned or made necessary by the alteration of systems, devices, software or other resources, with or without administrative access to such resources, by anyone other than authorised XCD IT personnel. Includes any change or service occasioned by acts or omissions by the Client’s own employees, principals, consultants, subcontractors, third party vendors, or any other third parties who may have or have had physical, logical or remote access to Client’s resources
  • Maintenance of third-party applications, software, software packages or add-ons, whether acquired through XCD IT or any other source. The only exception is software made or modified by XCD IT in order to provide managed services.
  • Any software programming or scripting (creation or modification of software code) and program (software) maintenance
  • Any work, project, service or support of any kind, whether one-time, periodic, or ongoing, that involves a new resource that was not present at the time an MSA is executed