About Surftec Ltd

Main Address:
Surftec Ltd
5 Mead Lane
Farnham
Surrey
GU9 7DY.

Our offices are visit by appointment only.

Legal Details:
Surftec Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 3829818.

Registered office:
Surftec Ltd
Glen Road
Hindhead
Surrey
GU26 6QE.

VAT Registration number:
744 5434 28.

The Company
Based in Farnham Surrey, Surftec Ltd provides products and services to education, local government and MOD across the UK who want to get more out of their networks and websites.

Formed in August 1999, Surftec Ltd had a strong customer base at its inception following the inheritance of products from its founder's previous employer. Our focus is with UK education and have a wide ranging knowledge of both historical and modern educational ICT equipment. We won't tell you to throw away equipment that is serviceable and educationally relevant.

We work closely with key suppliers carefully selected to provide a complete one-stop solution and help schools make effective ICT procurement to reduce wastage and build a strong ICT solution that builds for the future.

Many of our products and services are based on leading open-source technologies, bringing you powerful, secure solutions at sensible prices.

With our staff having been involved in some of the first thin-client systems in UK education during 1997 – one such installation at a primary school in Basingstoke, Hampshire was used to launch the NGfL initiate by David Blunkett then Education Minister. We have unparallelled experience in server based and thin-client technologies and their application to education.

We work to embrace open standards which provide our customers with easily managed, reliable and future proofed solutions be it a web-site or suite of computers.

Our business is based on long term relationships, built upon trust, good value and solid advice and planning.

Neil Farnham-Smith
Managing Director

Well-supported
We aim to provide the best support possible. We strongly encourage remote server administration so, in many cases, problems can be fixed as soon as an email or phone call is received.

Low-maintenance
Our server and networks will dramatically reduce management time. We achieve this by remote administration, choosing the most reliable and secure software, working only with branded hardware and providing simple management tools.

Conscientious
Education is seen by many suppliers as a get-rich-quick scheme. We won't sell you things you don't need. We won't tell you to throw away equipment that is serviceable and educationally relevant. We are sad to see many schools throwing away perfectly good hardware. In a lot of cases, the replacement does not offer as many facilities and costs more. We have seen PC suppliers who have reduced the ICT provision at schools to a fraction of what it was previously in terms of reliability, support, connectivity and security (email/web access, for instance) in the name of progress.

Partnership
By being conscientious and providing well-supported, low-maintenance networks, we strive to work together with schools and businesses to develop their ICT over a number of years. Our products are enhanced in response to customer feedback and requests. Because of our flexible systems and custom development, we can build software tailored to your individual needs.