What’s the fair price of professional engineering services?

What’s the fair price of professional engineering services?

a.       Good engineers are very rare, who really understand your business road map, and knows how to translate it into technical features, also streamline the cost in a long term.

b.       Cisco Customer Advocacy (CA) team in in charge of customer service, under which there is a special team doing field engineering delivery, called Advanced Service (AS) team. This team’s average per day charge is about 3~10K USD per working day.

c.       If your own engineers or your SI’s engineers are well trained, equipped and paid, you could save huge money and headache in relatively complicated or advanced implementation / configuration works. The key is not about the CCXX certificates, but the real hands-on experience, fast-response and learning capability, and passion of engineering delivery.