Other IT Services Businesses for Sale in Illinois.
Whether you're looking at managed services, cloud platforms, or consulting firms, the businesses that hold their value best are the ones with contractual recurring revenue and a capable team that delivers without the founder in the room.
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Due diligence
What to Look For
Practical guidance from hundreds of real acquisition conversations.
Recurring Revenue Quality
- Ask for a breakdown of subscription and contract revenue versus one-time project fees.
- Cloud platforms with multi-year customer tenures, MSPs with auto-renewing contracts, and consulting firms with managed services agreements all generate income buyers can count on.
- The spread between recurring and project revenue tells you more about stability than almost any other single number.
- Project-heavy revenue is still valuable, but it's worth understanding how much of the base comes back without a sales effort.
Team Depth and Credentials
- Security clearances, vendor certifications like AWS or Microsoft, and compliance credentials like SOC 2 take years and real investment to earn.
- Ask who holds what, whether those credentials transfer with the business, and which are held by individuals who could leave.
- A team where project leads and account managers handle client work independently is the version of this business worth the most.
Customer Stickiness
- Look for customers who would face real switching costs to leave — a cloud platform embedded in daily workflows, an MSP running a company's entire infrastructure.
- Ask about tenure and what it would take for a typical customer to move to a competitor.
- Long-tenured clients with multi-year contract history describe a business where customers stay because leaving is genuinely disruptive.
Proprietary Tools or IP
- Ask what the business owns outright and how it's being monetized.
- Homegrown tools, managed services platforms, or custom integrations add a revenue stream that scales without adding headcount.
- Proprietary technology creates defensibility that pure services businesses don't have.
Client Concentration
- Ask what percentage of revenue comes from the top three clients.
- A single large government contract or one enterprise customer representing a significant share of revenue is worth examining carefully.
- Long-tenured clients with multi-year contract history and deep team involvement tell a very different story than a new large client on a month-to-month arrangement.
Valuation
What Should You Expect to Pay?
3x-6x
SDE
Owner-operated, project-heavy, founder-dependent
5x-10x
EBITDA
With management team, strong recurring revenue, and proprietary tools
The spread across IT businesses is driven by how much of the revenue is contractual and recurring, whether the team delivers without the founder's direct involvement, and whether the business holds certifications, clearances, or proprietary tools that competitors can't quickly replicate.
What drives a premium
Auto-renewing contracts and subscriptions with documented multi-year customer tenure
Staff certifications, security clearances, or compliance credentials that took years to build
Proprietary software or tools that generate revenue beyond billable hours
A management team that handles client relationships and delivery without the founder
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