Tyne and Wear, North East
Custom software for Sunderland is a small system your team will actually open. Not a platform programme.

Sunderland custom work has to be usable on a shift, by someone who will not attend the training afternoon.
We come up the A19 when a visit will show the constraint. We do not keep a Sunderland office, and we do not treat a Newcastle meeting as if it covered Wearside.
FBST and Profizzle are studio products we still operate. That is the maintenance bar for a Sunderland build, not a comparison with your industry.
Worth the drive when the people on the shift are not the people who wrote the requirements. That is the usual Sunderland gap, and it is a poor fit for a slide deck.
We test that in Sunderland with the shift, not with the manager who wrote the tender.