R2 Revive is an IT asset disposition company in Colorado Springs.
We work on one narrow problem: what organizations do with retired phones, tablets and laptops, and how they prove afterwards that they did it properly. We collect the equipment, take the data off it in our own facility, and route what is left to reuse or recycling. Every step produces a record, because the record is the part you will be asked for.
That's a narrow promise, and it's deliberate. We'd rather tell you exactly what we're set up to handle than list everything we might one day touch.
Your next refresh leaves something behind
Every technology refresh creates three decisions at once, and they usually land on three different desks.
A data decision
Somebody has to say what happens to the information those devices held, who's authorized to make that call, and what evidence will show it happened.
An asset decision
Finance still has those devices on a register. If they vanish without a disposition line, the register is wrong, and somebody finds out at the worst moment.
An environmental decision
In Colorado, once you determine a device is waste, how you may dispose of it is regulated, and the determination is yours to make rather than ours or a hauler's.
What the rules cover turns on the device and on which rule you're reading, and the recycling page sets out where the lines actually fall.
Handle two of those and you still have a problem.
What we do
| Service | Scope | Standard or route | What you receive |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data sanitization | Phones, tablets and laptops | NIST SP 800-88 Revision 2, choosing the method per device rather than applying one setting to everything | A certificate of sanitization per media item, carrying the fields Section 4.6 of the standard asks for |
| Device reuse | Hardware that can go back into service | Condition graded after sanitization has been validated, not before | A grade on record, so the commercial decision never gets ahead of the data decision |
| Electronics recycling | Devices that can't go back into service | A documented route | Downstream verification records kept on file |
Destroying the data doesn't require destroying the machine, and the difference between those two things is usually money. How to compare value-recovery offers
The federal guidance changed in September 2025 and a lot of what's published about it is now out of date. What changed in NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 2
Three services, three device types. We'll widen the list when we can stand behind more of it.
Who this is for
Schools and colleges
Plan around academic calendars and managed device fleets, and usually need a report a board can read as much as they need the collection itself.
Businesses and private institutions
Have to get IT, finance and procurement pointing the same way before anything moves.
Government and defense organizations
Carry property and information requirements the rest of us don't. Any project has to follow its own authorized procurement and disposition route. We're not claiming government approval, installation access, awarded contracts, or authorization for restricted information.
See who we work with — what changes between a district, an agency and a business is the paperwork at the end, not the handling.
See what we do, or go straight to the page describing the service itself: collection and coordination. If you are scoping a whole project, IT asset disposition sets out the sequence end to end.
Guides and regulatory reference — NIST SP 800-88, Colorado's disposal rules, FERPA and the federal disposition routes, each citing the rule so you can check it.
Based in Colorado Springs, taking equipment from anywhere in the US
We're based in Colorado Springs, and that's where our facility is. It's where the data comes off the devices and where the records are produced. The equipment doesn't have to start here.
What being local does and doesn't buy you
We take retired inventory from organizations anywhere in the United States. For a district or a business with sites in three states, that matters more than a service radius does: one provider, one document set, one answer when somebody asks where the equipment went.
Dates, what we can accept and commercial terms still get confirmed project by project, and we'll tell you plainly rather than gesturing at a service map. There's no public drop-off.
Verify every important claim
We hold no certifications yet.
- R2 certification Not held
- e-Stewards certification Not held
- NAID certification Not held
Our facility operates to the requirements of the R2v3 standard and our certification audit is pending, and until that certificate exists we are not going to write it on a page. What we can show you now is the process itself and the records it produces. How to check a certification claim, on us or on anyone else
Until then, ask us for the evidence behind anything on this site. Nobody here minds the question.
If you're running a vendor assessment, send the questionnaire. Where a control isn't in place yet, our answer will say so rather than describing an intention as though it were a procedure.
Start with what you know about the fleet
Tell us the device types, rough quantities, locations, and when you're planning to retire them.
Nothing moves before you have written acceptance and transport instructions from us, so please don't send equipment ahead of that.