CDW LIMITED

CDW Okta Education Cloud

Okta for Education is a cloud-native identity platform that automates the student journey from applicant to alumni. By replacing fragile scripts with no-code workflows and providing centralized governance for all personas, Okta reduces technical debt, secures all data with Zero Trust, and delivers a seamless, identity-driven experience across campus.

Features

• Automated Lifecycle Management (Joiner-Mover-Leaver)
• No-Code Okta Workflows
• Universal Directory (Single Source of Truth)
• Contextual SSO & Adaptive MFA
• Dynamic Group Management
• Real-Time SaaS Provisioning
• Identity Threat Protection (ITP)
• Unmatched App Integration Network (OIN)
• Devolved Self-Service & Delegated Admin
• Continuous Zero Trust Security

Benefits

• Automates seamless student transitions from applicant to engaged alumni.
• Replaces fragile scripts with visual automation for academic provisioning
• Governs all staff, students, and guests in one central hub.
• Secure, one-click access to all university applications globally.
• Instantly grants software access based on real-time course enrolment.
• Delivers Day-One access for all identities, bypassing IT service desks.
• Terminates sessions instantly if student portal or faculty accounts compromise.
• Effortlessly connects thousands of apps with pre-built, click-not-code integrations.
• Empowers departments to create accounts and manage their groups.
• Replaces network trust with continuous, context-aware identity verification everywhere.

Service documents

• Pricing document

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• Service definition document

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• Terms and conditions

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Framework

G-Cloud 15

Service ID

232690658895413

Contact

Andy Wood
0161 837 7744
tenders@uk.cdw.com

About your service

• Service categories:

  Systems Infrastructure Software

  Security

  • Security analytics
  • Governance, risk and compliance

  Identity and access management

  • Access
  • Privilege
• Multi cloud support: Yes

Service scope

• Software add-on or extension: Yes, but can also be used as a standalone service
• What software services is the service an extension to: "Integration catalogue: https://www.okta.com/integrations/ ; Any software supporting standards based single sign-on ; Any software supporting standards based user provisioning; Non-exhaustive examples:; HCM/HR -Workday, SAP Successfactors; Collaboration software -MS Office 365, Google Workspace, Zoom, Slack; Zero Trust -Proofpoint, Crowdstrike, Zscaler; ITSM -ServiceNow, Remedy, Jira; CRM -Salesforce, Dynamics, Zoho; Platforms -AWS, GCP, Azure, VMWare"
• Cloud deployment model: Public cloud
• Service constraints: N/A
• System requirements: Appropriate Licensing and access for integration configurations.

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Yes
• Support response times: "The Premier Success Plans offer varying response times based on priority level and plan:; Basic (24/5 Support):P1 (Critical) issues receive a response within 2 hours. P2 (Urgent) is 12 hours, while P3 (High) and P4 (Low) are both 24 hours.; Silver (24/7 Support):This plan guarantees a P1 response time of 1 hour. P2 (Urgent) is 2 hours, P3 (High) is 8 hours, and P4 (Low) remains 24 hours.; Gold (24/7 Support):The fastest service level, providing a P1 response within 30 minutes. P2 (Urgent) response time is 1 hour, P3 (High) is 4 hours, and P4 (Low) is 24 hours
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: Yes
• Online ticketing support accessibility: WCAG 2.2 AA
• Phone support: Yes
• Phone support availability: 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
• Web chat support: No
• Onsite support: Yes, at extra cost
• Support levels: "Okta Premier Success Plans; Okta offers three tiers of Premier Success Plans:; ; Basic (Included for less than $20K ARR) : Provides access to public training and the Support Center. Support is available 24/5 online. The fastest response time (P1/Critical) is 2 hours.; ; Silver (15% of ARR, $20K–$200K spend) : Offers 24/7 support and includes customized recommendations and self-guided resources. It features one Expert Learning Pass and 10% off training , plus one Oktane pass. P1 response time is 1 hour.; ; Gold (25% of ARR, required for $200K+ spend) : Focuses on personalized engagements with success planning and roadmap alignment. It provides business and technical guidance from specialized experts. The plan includes six Expert Learning Passes (20% off additional training) and two Oktane passes. It features the fastest support , with a P1 response time of 30 minutes."
• Support available to third parties: Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

• Getting started: OKta has a video series dedicated to getting started and learning identity. In addition, OKta has documentation and quickstarts to help get started with the product. If on-site training is required, professional services can be available as a package. Okta customers depending on level of service will also have Customer Success Managers or Technical Account Managers assigned to ensure success. Okta also has a comprehensive learning certification portfolio.
• Service documentation: Yes
• Documentation formats: HTML
• End-of-contract data extraction: APIs can be ustilised to extract any data required at any time.
• End-of-contract process: At the end-of-contract the plan automatically gets converted into Free plan with limited features and support.
• Documentation accessibility standard: WCAG 2.2 AA

Using the service

• Web browser interface: Yes
• Supported browsers:
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Safari
  • Opera
• Application to install: No
• Designed for use on mobile devices: Yes
• Differences between the mobile and desktop service: The Okta web portal is browser based for both types of devices so only differences will be between the device display properties. The Okta mobile application is available at no extra cost.
• Service interface: Yes
• User support accessibility: WCAG 2.2 AA
• Description of service interface: Okta has many ways to interact, including a web dashboard. The web dashboard is utilised by users to open assigned applications using Okta initiated single sign on (including multi factor). Administrators will use the web interface to do CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Deactivate) of users and groups as well as setup application connections and configure authentication and multifactor policies.
• Accessibility standards: WCAG 2.2 AA
• Accessibility testing: Not Applicable
• API: Yes
• What users can and can't do using the API: OKta implements an API first strategy across the platform to provide extensive APIs for authentication and the management of the tenant. The Authentication API exposes Okta identity functionality, as well as those of supported identity protocols (such as OpenID Connect, OAuth, and SAML).
• API documentation: Yes
• API documentation formats: Open API (also known as Swagger)
• API sandbox or test environment: Yes
• Customisation available: Yes
• Description of customisation: "Okta offers a very customizable & extensible solution where customers can bring their own business logic and branding.; To name a few points, OKta allows you to customize the look & feel of the Login; Pick and choose MFA factors; Integrate with any Identity Provider that leverages open standards like OIDC, OAuth2.0, SAML, WSFED; Customize the authentication and authorization pipeline."

Scaling

• Independence of resources: "Being able to scale is only one part of the equation. Today’s users expect a seamless experience while IT adapts to an increasing demand. Interruptions and downtime can severely hurt organization’s productivity. Auth0 is built to handle this challenge with a guaranteed 99.9% uptime, and zero planned downtime. Furthermore, Auth0 has maintained a 100% global uptime in the last 2 years, with no major service disruption, as it scaled 640% in the amount of authentications per month it needed to handle. Auth0 is never taken offline for updates or maintenance. ; "

Analytics

• Service usage metrics: Yes
• Metrics types: "Okta Education Cloud delivers real-time metrics for Education-facing services, enabling establishment reporting:; Identity Threat Protection: AI logs track session risk and automate remediation (e.g., terminating suspicious portal access).; Security Posture: Audits configurations and API endpoints to prevent misalignments with security standards.; API Access Management: Reports on OAuth/OIDC token usage for secure data sharing with third-party services.; Workflows: Provides 30-day analysis of automated Student/Staff/ Associate journeys, including latency and resource status.; Inbound Federation: Monitors adoption of external providers research collaborators to ensure seamless cross-platform authentication."
• Reporting types: API access
• Resource tagging: No
• FOCUS resource tagging: No

Resellers

• Supplier type: Reseller (no extras)
• Organisation whose services are being resold: Okta

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Other security clearance
• Government security clearance: None

Asset protection

• Knowledge of data storage and processing locations: Yes
• Data storage and processing locations:
  • United Kingdom
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • Other locations
• User control over data storage and processing locations: Yes
• Datacentre security standards: Managed by a third party
• Penetration testing frequency: At least once a year
• Penetration testing approach: Another external penetration testing organisation
• Protecting data at rest:
  • Physical access control, complying with SSAE-18 / ISAE 3402
  • Other
• Other data at rest protection approach: Stored data are encrypted using AES and a 256-bit encryption key specifically created for the customer tenant (with each customer assigned their own). The tenant master keys are themselves encrypted with a master key stored within Amazon's Key Management Service (KMS).
• Data sanitisation process: Yes
• Equipment disposal approach: Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v4.0, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001
• Data sanitisation type: Data Erasure

Data importing and exporting

• Data export approach: Users can export data in CSV or JSON
• Data export formats:
  • CSV
  • Other
• Other data export formats: JSON
• Data import formats:
  • CSV
  • Other
• Other data import formats: JSON

Data-in-transit protection

• Data protection between buyer and supplier networks: TLS (version 1.2 or above)
• Data protection within supplier network: TLS (version 1.2 or above)

Availability and resilience

• Guaranteed availability: 99.99%
• Approach to resilience: "Okta leverages Amazon Web Services (AWS) for our infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and hosting environment. By utilizing AWS' EC2 and S3 environments, Okta has access to virtually unlimited capacity, which enables utilization of multiple AWS availability zones , with each zone being equivalent to one or more physical, tier-4 data centers , across multiple distinct geographical compute regions. Okta maintains high availability among virtual instances within each availability zone, as well as across zones. Operational details of how Okta leverages AWS for hot standby are included in our SOC2 Type II report.; ; Amazon information on regions and availability zones: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-regions-availability-zones.html; ; How Okta Builds and Runs Scalable Architecture: https://www.okta.com/resources/whitepaper/how-okta-builds-and-runs-scalable-infrastructure/; ; Okta's High Availability Architecture Whitepaper: ; https://www.okta.com/sites/default/files/2022-09/Okta%20High%20Availability%20Architecture_Whitepaper.pdf"
• Outage reporting: The service is designed to be highly available with zero down time. When outages are experienced, customer are notified and updated via email and through help desk announcements until the service is back up and running. If there is a workaround available to reduce the outage risk, Okta's Customer Support team will proactively inform customers about such options. Information is always avaialble at https://status.okta.com/

Identity and authentication

• User authentication needed: Yes
• User authentication:
  • Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
  • Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
  • Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
  • Username or password
• Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels: "Only Okta’s technical operations team can access the production environment. This is secured via IP allow-lists, encrypted VPNs, and SSH key pairs, with mandatory hardware MFA (e.g., YubiKey).; ; Customer support has exclusive access to a limited impersonation tool for troubleshooting. This feature allows support to navigate administrative dashboards but prohibits authenticating into downstream applications. Usage requires customer initiation, ensuring they maintain data control. All actions are logged and audited. For details on granting access, refer to Okta’s documentation."
• Access restriction testing frequency: At least once a year
• Management access authentication: Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

Audit information for users

• Access to user activity audit information: Users have access to real-time audit information
• How long user audit data is stored for: Between 1 month and 6 months
• Access to supplier activity audit information: Users have access to real-time audit information
• How long supplier audit data is stored for: Between 1 month and 6 months
• How long system logs are stored for: Between 1 month and 6 months

Security governance

• Named board-level person responsible for service security: Yes
• Security governance certified: Yes
• Security governance standards:
  • ISO/IEC 27001
  • Other
• Other security governance standards: "Okta's current security certifications and policies are always available on Okta's Security Trust Center at https://security.okta.com ; This resource provides comprehensive information and documents detailing Okta and Auth0's security, compliance, and robust security framework."
• Information security policies and processes: "Okta's information security policy is based on best practices, such as AICPA Trust Services Principles and Criteria, ISO 27001:2022, ISO 27017:2015, ISO 27018:2019, and NIST's Cloud Computing Matrix. The policy covers key areas, such as information classification policy, data handling, encryption, acceptable use, change management, and network security. This policy document can be provided to prospects under NDA. The fidelity and efficacy of the policies outlined in this document are audited and attested to in Okta and Auth0 SOC2 Type II reports, which can also be provided to prospects under NDA.; ; Okta's information security policies and procedures are available in our internal wiki pages, accessible to all employees. Employees are required to sign an agreement to acknowledge having received and reviewed the information security policy. Security and privacy awareness training is conducted annually and is mandatory for all employees."
• Software Security Code of Practice: Yes

Operational security

• Configuration and change management standard: Supplier-defined controls
• Configuration and change management approach: "The Service maintains documented application and infrastructure change management policies and procedures to communicate company’s expectations regarding the change management process to Okta personnel, and to ensure any unauthorized changes are not made to production systems. Engineering teams meet in weekly planning and daily stand-ups to discuss and communicate current and upcoming changes and their effects on the system. The change management process adds oversight, visibility, and control of changes to the Okta environment.
• Vulnerability management type: Supplier-defined controls
• Vulnerability management approach: If a potential vulnerability is identified, it is triaged among the security, engineering, and technical operations teams. Okta Security employs a risk ranking system for technical vulnerabilities which accounts for published risk rankings within the Okta environment. Critical- and high-risk issues are addressed as quickly as possible within the context of business feasibility. Okta has formal vulnerability management procedures that detail how Okta identifies, manages and remediates vulnerabilities. This document is available to prospects under NDA and current customers under contract via our Security Trust Center at security.okta.com
• Protective monitoring type: Supplier-defined controls
• Protective monitoring approach: As a normal course of business, Okta monitors for and responds to broad attacks that impact Okta's services. Okta utilizes a number of monitoring tools with centralized logging and SIEM using our own correlation rules for security monitoring, analysis, and alerting. Okta monitors all outbound traffic from our production environment for anomalies using both proprietary and commercial traffic monitoring and intrusion detection systems.
• Incident management type: Supplier-defined controls
• Incident management approach: "Okta has a formally documented Cyber Security Incident Response Plan that describes the processes and procedures that Okta follows to respond to, remediate and resolve a security incident involving a potential or actual compromise of Company Information or Okta system. It includes discovery, investigation, escalation, containment, notification, documentation and evidence chain-of-custody controls.; ; Okta's IRP is tested at least annually and is available to prospects under NDA.; ; Security breach and/or incident notifications go out to impacted customers via email. Notifications are delivered to customers in accordance with their MSA."
• Post-quantum cryptography secure: Yes

Secure development

• Approach to secure software development best practice: Independent review of processes (for example CESG CPA Build Standard, ISO/IEC 27034, ISO/IEC 27001 or CSA CCM v4.0)

Public sector networks

• Connection to public sector networks: No

Pricing

• Discount for educational organisations: No
• Free trial available: No

Discount percentage by annual call-off contract value (excluding VAT)

• Less than £250,000: 0%
• Between £250,000 and £500,000: 0%
• Between £500,001 and £1,000,000: 0.5%
• Between £1,000,001 and £2,500,000: 1%
• Between £2,500,001 and £5,000,000: 2%
• Over £5,000,001: 2.5%

Non-mandatory Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: Yes
• Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001: BSI
• ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date: Tuesday 15 July 2025
• What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover: N/A
• ISO 28000:2022 certification: No
• ISO 9001 certification: Yes
• Who accredited the ISO 9001 certification: BSI
• ISO 9001 accreditation date: Friday 14 July 2023
• What the ISO 9001 doesn’t cover: N/A
• Quality management systems (QMS): Yes
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: Yes
• Who accredited the PCI DSS certification: Worldpay
• PCI DSS accreditation date: Tuesday 11 March 2025
• What the PCI DSS doesn’t cover: N/A
• Cyber essentials: Yes
• Please provide your Cyber Essentials Certificate Number: 589cb06d-71a8-43f6-81a1-eda062104f56
• Cyber essentials plus: Yes
• Please provide your Cyber Essentials Plus Certificate Number: 4f861f6b-f0f0-44fa-a807-6049b0d9bfdc
• Other security certifications: No

Social value

• Section B - Commitment for Future: Delivery:

  • Mission: Kick start economic growth. To secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 - with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.

    Policy Outcome 1: Fair work: That offers fair wages and good working conditions. Help people get a job, stay in work, and progress in their careers, with good employment opportunities across the country. Notes: Where there is a large proportion of labour costs in the contract, commercial teams should consider MAC in Outcome 1 as a priority

    • New or retained jobs on the contract workforce in the relevant area that meet the criteria set out in MAC 1b, 1c and 1d
    • New apprenticeships on the contract workforce in the relevant area that meet the criteria set out in MAC 1b
    • Providing opportunities for, and measuring and monitoring of, staff workforce conditions over time, including employee engagement, involvement in decision-making and satisfaction and adapting to any changes in the results, with clear processes for acting on issues identified
    • Plans to engage the contract workforce in deciding the most important workplace issues to address
    • Ensuring new workers are informed of their right to join a trade union
    • Monitoring of employee engagement rates (by protected characteristic) and, where necessary, the development of actions to ensure all voices are heard across the diversity of the workforce
    • Employment contracts that reflect actual hours worked; steps taken to ensure employees understand their contracts and have the ability to review and adjust them if actual hours regularly exceed contracted hours
    • Activities that support an environment where staff are educated about, and feel empowered to, address their physical wellbeing
    • Activities that support an environment where staff are educated about and feel empowered to report and address bullying and harassment
    • Activities to cascade good practice on fair working conditions throughout the supply chain
    • Offer a pay and leave entitlement to all eligible staff who become kinship carers, ideally equivalent to statutory adoption pay and leave
    • Payment of more than the National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage (as appropriate) to the contract workforce
    • Monitoring and reporting of gender and ethnicity pay gaps and plans to address them where necessary
    • Entitlement to sick pay for the contract workforce, with provision in place for any staff who do not meet the earnings threshold for statutory sick pay, payment of sick pay from day one of absence and payment of staff on the contract workforce who are off sick a replacement income of 100% of their usual earnings for as long as possible
    • Plans for an appropriate income replacement policy for staff who are required to spend time away from work to care for a sick dependent or close relative
    • Understanding of in-work progression issues affecting the market, industry or sector relevant to the contract, and in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key sub-contractors
    • Measures to support in-work progression to help people in the contract workforce, to move into higher paid work by developing new skills relevant to the contract
    • Support for the contract workforce by providing career advice, and providing opportunities for staff working on the contract with in-work progression career development into known skills shortages or high growth areas
    • Support for educational attainment relevant to the contract, including training schemes that address skills gaps and result in recognised qualifications
    • Volunteering opportunities for staff
    • Understanding of the modern slavery risks and issues affecting the market, industry, sector or country (of origin or of source) relevant to the contract, and the workforce in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key subcontractors
    • Measures to identify, mitigate and manage modern slavery risks relating to the contract and how these will be implemented
    • Outline policies and practices to be applied to or put in place for the contract to mitigate and manage modern slavery risks, including: Pre-employment checks, recruitment practices. Workplace conditions, safeguarding plans and processes in place and regular monitoring with relevant groups considered, which may include sampling
    • How these flow down the supply chain and are monitored Illustrative examples include reporting, site visits, audits, etc.
    • How to ensure business decisions re: price/cost, short lead times, payment timescales do not create modern slavery risks in the supply chain
    • Means of influencing staff, suppliers, customers, communities and/or any other appropriate stakeholders with respect to modern slavery risks relating to the contract

  • Mission: Kick start economic growth. To secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 - with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.

    Policy Outcome 2: Skills for growth: Supporting growth sectors and addressing skills gaps.

    • Understanding of employment and relevant skills issues, and of the education and training issues relating to the contract. Illustrative examples: demographics, skills shortages, new opportunities in high growth sectors, geographic/local community and skills/employment challenges
    • Support for educational attainment relevant to the contract, including training schemes that address skills gaps and result in recognised qualifications
    • Activities to support relevant sector related skills growth and sustainability in the contract workforce. Illustrative examples: careers talks, curriculum support, literacy support, safety talks and volunteering
    • Delivery of apprenticeships, supported internships and T Level industry placement opportunities (Level 2, 3 and 4+) in relation to the contract

  • Mission: Kick start economic growth. To secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 - with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.

    Policy Outcome 3: Resilient, innovative and flexible supply chains: Support economic growth through enabling resilient businesses, opportunities for small businesses and voluntary, community and social enterprises

    • Understanding of the types of businesses in the market and the level of participation by new businesses, entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs, VCSEs and mutuals
    • Activities to identify opportunities to open up sub-contracts under the prime contract to a diverse range of businesses, including new businesses, entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs, VCSEs and mutuals
    • Plans for engaging a diverse range of businesses in engagement activities prior to appointing subcontractors (including activities prior to award of the main contract and during the contract term)
    • Activities that demonstrate a collaborative way to work with a diverse range of businesses as part of the supply chain
    • Ensuring accessibility to contracting and subcontracting opportunities for disabled business owners and employees
    • Structuring of the supply chain selection process to ensure fairness (e.g. anti-corruption) and encourages participation by a diverse range of businesses, including with regard to new businesses, entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs, VCSEs and mutual
    • Understanding of local demographics, needs and opportunities for the co-design of the goods, services and works to be delivered under the contract
    • Methods for engaging with different parts of the community (including the education system and charities representing the community) and how communities come together to inform decisions, strategy and projects to leave a positive legacy for future generations
    • Plans for positive actions with community groups.
    • Measures for making facilities used in the delivery of the contract available for community groups, education or training
    • Support for community-led initiatives relevant to the contract. Illustrative examples: improving transport links; reducing loneliness; helping with English language proficiency; and facilitating social mixing among people with different backgrounds
    • Collaborating with anchor institutions and community groups to make facilities available for education, training or community events

  • Mission: Make Britain a clean energy superpower: To cut bills, create jobs and deliver security with cheaper, zero-carbon electricity by 2030, accelerating to net zero

    Policy Outcome 4: Sustainable procurement practices: Reducing carbon footprints, minimising waste, and promoting the use of clean energy and green technologies.

    • Understanding of opportunities for additional environmental benefits delivery in the performance of the contract, including working towards net zero carbon emissions and use of clean energy and green technologies
    • Collaborative ways of working with the supply chain to deliver additional environmental benefits in the performance of the contract, including working towards net zero carbon emissions and use of clean energy and green technologies
    • Delivery of additional environmental benefits through the performance of the contract, including working towards net zero carbon emissions and use of clean energy and green technologies
    • Understanding of how to influence staff, suppliers, customers, communities and/or any other appropriate stakeholders through the delivery of the contract to support climate and nature protection and improvement
    • Activities to reconnect people with the environment and increase awareness of ways to protect and enhance it

  • Mission: Break down barriers to opportunity: By reforming our childcare and education systems, to make sure there is no class ceiling on the ambitions of young people in Britain

    Policy Outcome 6: Employment and training: For those who face barriers to employment

    • Understanding of employment and skills issues, and of the skills and employment shortages of high growth sectors relating to the contract
    • Creation of employment opportunities particularly for those who face barriers to employment, such as prison leavers, care leavers and/or who are located in deprived areas, and for people in industries with known skills shortages or in high growth sectors
    • Delivery of training schemes and programmes to address any identified skills gaps and under-representation in the workforce for the contract (e.g. prison leavers, care leavers, kinship carers, disabled people)
    • Advertising, promotional and outreach activities designed to raise awareness of the offer to reach the target cohort
    • Understanding of the issues affecting the representation of disabled people in the workforce in the market, industry or sector relevant to the contract, and in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key sub-contractors
    • Collection of the views and expertise of disabled people and their representative organisations on successfully supporting disabled employees or applicants
    • Inclusive and accessible recruitment practices, and retention-focused activities, including those provided in the Guide for line managers on recruiting, managing and developing people with a disability or health condition
    • Introducing transparency to pay and reward processes
    • Offering a range of quality opportunities with routes of progression if appropriate, e.g. T Level industry placements, students supported into higher level apprenticeships.
    • Working conditions which promote an inclusive working environment and promote retention and progression
    • Other measures to provide equality of opportunity for disabled people and those with health conditions into employment, including becoming a Disability Confident employer and inclusion of supported businesses in the contract supply chain
    • Understanding of the issues affecting inequality in employment, skills and pay in the market, industry or sector relevant to the contract, and in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key sub-contractors. Measures to tackle inequality in employment, skills and pay in the contract workforce
    • Inclusive and accessible development practices, including guidance for line managers on recruiting, managing and developing people with a disability or health condition

  • Mission: Break down barriers to opportunity: By reforming our childcare and education systems, to make sure there is no class ceiling on the ambitions of young people in Britain

    Policy Outcome 7: Creating a pipeline of opportunities: For the contract workforce, reducing barriers to entry for under-represented groups.

    • Understanding of the issues affecting the development of new skills by target cohort
    • Understanding of the underlying factors affecting improvements to reduce barriers to entry and training schemes for the target cohort(s) related to the contract workforce
    • Other measures to offer development opportunities for the target cohort(s) in the contract workforce
    • Advertising, promotional and outreach activities designed to raise awareness of the offer to reach the target cohort
    • Understanding of issues relating to entering the contract workforce
    • Creation of outreach activities to create a pipeline of employees for the future contract delivery
    • Content of the outreach activity is designed to suit the target cohort
    • Advertising, promotional and outreach activities designed to raise awareness of the offer to reach the target cohort

  • Mission: Build an NHS fit for the future: That is there when people need it; with fewer lives lost to the biggest killers; in a fairer Britain, where everyone lives well for longer.

    Policy Outcome 8: Increasing productivity through physical and mental wellbeing: In the supply chain and communities in the relevant area.

    • Understanding of issues relating to health and wellbeing, including physical and mental health, in the contract workforce
    • Inclusive and accessible recruitment practices, development practices and retention policies that support-focused activities including those provided in the Guide for line managers on recruiting, managing and developing which support people with a disability or health condition
    • Actions to invest in the physical and mental health and wellbeing of the contract workforce

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

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