Company File / Technology Consultancy
PTS.
The quiet intelligence wired into the building you're sitting in.
The quiet intelligence wired into the building you're sitting in.
Walk into any modern office and you are surrounded by decisions PTS helped make. The Wi-Fi that holds. The screen in the boardroom that connects on the first try. The door that opens for your badge and no one else's. The data centre humming three floors down. None of it carries a PTS logo - and that is precisely the point. PTS sells advice, not boxes. It has no hardware to push, no vendor quota to hit, no quiet commission riding on which brand you choose. For a technology consultancy, that independence is the whole pitch: the recommendation is yours, not a supplier's.
Founded in London in 1983, PTS spent four decades turning into the connective tissue between three groups that historically don't speak the same language - IT, real estate, and the people who actually have to use the building. It is the translator in the room when those three start arguing.
Figures self-reported by PTS / aggregated from public profiles. Treat large counts as approximate.
A world where people and technology seamlessly connect.
PTS did not arrive fully formed. It started in 1983 as a subsidiary of a construction firm, Shoralplan Ltd - a detail that explains a lot, because PTS has never quite forgotten that technology lives inside buildings, not in the cloud alone. In 1987 it became Planned Telecom Services. In 1990, the engineer's instinct kicked in: ten employees, led by Kevin Perrett, bought the company outright in a management buyout.
Around the turn of the millennium, "Planned Telecom" gave way to plain "PTS Consulting" - the telecom roots widening into networks, AV, security, data centres and, eventually, smart buildings. The work crept up the value chain from installing things to advising whether you should install them at all.
Then, on 31 March 2024, PTS did the unusual thing twice. The founder's shares and those of his equity partners moved into a PTS Trust, making the UK business fully employee-owned. Everyone who builds your project now owns a slice of the firm that delivered it. It is a structure designed to outlast any single personality - and to keep the firm independent when the easy money would have been a trade sale.
That independence is not a marketing flourish. A consultancy owned by a hardware vendor, or eyeing an exit to one, has a reason to nudge you toward certain answers. An employee-owned, vendor-neutral firm has a reason to be right, because its name travels to the next project on the strength of the last one.
Founded in the City of London as a subsidiary of construction firm Shoralplan Ltd.
The company takes the name that would later shrink to its initials.
Kevin Perrett leads ten employees in a management buyout of the firm.
Telecom roots widen into networks, AV, security and data centres.
Shares move into the PTS Trust on 31 March; staff become the owners.
PTS on stage at DCD Connect MENA; Jason Hutchison joins as Consulting Services Director.
PTS designs the invisible layer of a building - the part you only notice when it fails. Here's the menu.
Meeting rooms, digital signage and collaboration tech that connects on the first try.
Zero-trust networks, identity management and risk mitigation for the connected enterprise.
Turning building and workplace data into decisions people can act on.
Independent strategy, design and peer review across global sites.
Support, project delivery and procurement as an outsourced service.
The connectivity backbone for buildings and campuses that has to just work.
Structured cabling - the physical spine smart buildings depend on.
Integrated access control and IoT-enabled building protection.
End-to-end delivery for complex, multi-site technology rollouts.
Digital twins, building management systems and smart campus strategy.
Named public clients have included Battersea Power Station, Deloitte, Bloomberg and the University of Birmingham.
Illustrative emphasis from PTS's stated service mix - not audited revenue split.
Integrity. Passion. Wisdom. Collaboration.
Moving into a new headquarters and want the technology designed before the concrete sets? That's the brief PTS likes best - getting into the room early enough to influence cabling routes, AV sightlines and security zones while they are still cheap to change.
Sitting on a technology proposal from a vendor and unsure if it's fair? PTS does independent peer reviews - a second opinion from people with no stake in the answer. Running a data centre that's quietly straining? They'll assess, design and optimise it without trying to sell you the racks.
Stretched IT team? Managed services pick up support, delivery and procurement. Chasing a sustainability target? The smart-building and digital-twin work is aimed squarely at energy and space efficiency, not just shiny dashboards.
The through-line: PTS is most useful when a technology decision is expensive, irreversible, or politically loaded - the moments when you'd rather have an adviser who profits from being right than from selling you something.
Profile compiled from public sources. Statistics are self-reported by PTS or aggregated from third-party business profiles and should be treated as approximate.