Sounds like you are between a rock and a hard place.
Not as bad as my buddies in financial services. They used to have a Black Belt in Spending. For most vendors, that sector was 20% of their total business. So every vendor - Microsoft, IBM, CA, SAP, Cisco - now is in here all the time. It's getting so bad that I have to disguise myself as a Fed Ex employee just to get through my waiting room.
That bad?
Absolutely, positively.