Jones Lang LaSalle Limited

Vergesense

VergeSense is a SaaS-based, AI-powered, space utilisation and analytics platform that detects occupancy within the built environment and enables operators and tenants to make decisions on workplace design, portfolio optimisation, smart cleaning, and employee experience. Data consumed via web-based analytics dashboard or via API by 3rd party systems.

Features

• Real-time occupancy data
• AI-powered computer vision
• Privacy-first anonymous sensing
• Interactive floor plan visualisations
• Automated utilisation reporting
• REST API integration
• Scalable wireless deployment
• Predictive space analytics
• Granular space monitoring
• Centralised cloud platform

Benefits

• See real-time desk, room, and overall space usage.
• Get accurate people counts while ensuring complete user anonymity.
• Protect individual privacy and ensure data compliance.
• Easily identify high-traffic areas and underused spaces with heatmaps.
• Make informed, data-driven decisions about your property portfolio.
• Connect with your existing IWMS and building management systems.
• Easily install and scale across your entire property portfolio.
• Predict future space needs to optimise your workspace strategy.
• Get detailed usage data for desks, rooms, and common areas.
• Analyze your entire global portfolio from one central platform.

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

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Framework

G-Cloud 15

Service ID

540719119954401

Contact

Melanie Mack
+442031471344
GCloud_tenders@jll.com

About your service

• Service categories:

  Application Development and Deployment

  Analytics and business intelligence

  • Location and geospatial data management and analytics
• Multi cloud support: No

Service scope

• Software add-on or extension: No
• Cloud deployment model: Public cloud
• Service constraints: Power outlets are needed for gateway installation.
• System requirements: Sensors require outbound HTTPS communications to the VergeSense cloud

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Yes
• Support response times: P1 Issues (System Down): 1 hour during Weekday SLA, 4 hours during Evening + Weekend SLA. P2 Issues (Major Issue): 4 business hours during Weekday SLA, by the end of the next business day during Evening + Weekend SLA. P3 Issues (Noticeable, non-major issue affecting only a subset of Users): five business days during Weekday SLA, five business days during Evening + Weekend SLA. Complete SLA information can be found in the VergeSense Support SLA documentation.
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: No
• Phone support: Yes
• Phone support availability: 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
• Web chat support: Yes
• Web chat support availability: 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
• Web chat support accessibility standard: WCAG 2.2 AA
• Web chat accessibility testing: Tested to ensure compliance with WCAG
• Onsite support: Yes, at extra cost
• Support levels: Customer support is included with the VergeSense annual subscription. Each customer is assigned a Customer Success Manager. Support levels are outlined in the support response times above.
• Support available to third parties: Yes
• AI chatbot: Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

• Getting started: VergeSense provides a full on-boarding service including setup, installation, training, and ongoing customer support.
• Service documentation: Yes
• Documentation formats:
  • HTML
  • PDF
• End-of-contract data extraction: Customers may export a .csv of the data available.
• End-of-contract process: At the end of a contract, a Customer Success Manager will prepare an offboarding plan with the customer. The customer may export their data via .csv file. On the agreed upon date, all access to the customer account will be disabled including 3rd party APIs/webhooks. Data may be stored for a period of time according to our data retention policies at the time. Customers may also submit a request for data to be deleted in accordance with both VergeSense and the customers' policies.
• Documentation accessibility standard: None or don’t know
• How the documentation is accessible: We are committed to ensuring that our onboarding and offboarding documentation is clear and available to all customer users. Our materials are primarily provided in digital formats, which allows them to be used with standard assistive technologies like screen readers and text magnification tools. We aim to structure our content logically and write in plain language to make it as easy to understand as possible. We see accessibility as an ongoing effort. If any employee requires documentation in an alternative format or needs a specific accommodation, we encourage them to speak with their Customer Success Manager

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: No
• Service interface: Yes
• User support accessibility: None or don’t know
• Description of service interface: VergeSense has a web-based interface for customers which includes analytics and administrative tools. It is designed with ease of use and minimum click rate at the forefront of the process.
• Accessibility standards: None or don’t know
• Description of accessibility: VergeSense has not undergone independent testing at the moment.
• Accessibility testing: VergeSense has not undergone independent testing at the moment.
• API: Yes
• What users can and can't do using the API: The VergeSense API allows developers to access and integrate the functionality of VergeSense with other applications such as IWMS, BMS etc. API access comes with hardware and account service.
• API documentation: Yes
• API documentation formats: HTML
• API sandbox or test environment: Yes
• Customisation available: Yes
• Description of customisation: Customer administrators can customise individual spaces and space groups to optimise analytics and integration with 3rd party systems.

Scaling

• Independence of resources: VergeSense has implemented multiple scalability, redundancy, and other automated tools in the cloud infrastructure to allow for high performance during peak demand.

Analytics

• Service usage metrics: Yes
• Metrics types: VergeSense provides live analytics, reports, and device outage alerts.
• Reporting types:
  • API access
  • Real-time dashboards
  • Reports on request
• Resource tagging: No
• FOCUS resource tagging: No

Resellers

• Supplier type: Reseller providing extra features and support
• Organisation whose services are being resold: VergeSense

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Staff screening not performed
• Government security clearance: Developed Vetting (DV)

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: Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 4.0)
• Penetration testing frequency: At least once a year
• Penetration testing approach: Another external penetration testing organisation
• Protecting data at rest:
  • Encryption of all physical media
  • Other
• Other data at rest protection approach: Server-side encryption is the encryption of data at its destination by the application or service that receives it. Amazon S3 encrypts your data at the object level as it writes it to disks in its data centers and decrypts it for you when you access it. Please refer to our ISMS documentation for more information: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/serv-side-encryption.html.
• Data sanitisation process: Yes
• Equipment disposal approach: In-house destruction process
• Data sanitisation type: Deleted data can’t be directly accessed / Cryptographic Erasure

Data importing and exporting

• Data export approach: A customer can export data via .csv (static) or API (dynamic).
• Data export formats: CSV
• Data import formats: CSV

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: Our cloud service provider (AWS) has a 99.99% uptime SLA across all regions that it supports.
• Approach to resilience: We leverage globally-trusted cloud infrastructure (AWS) for hosting and implement the best industry practices available. More detailed information is available upon request.
• Outage reporting: When an outage occurs, your VergeSense customer success manager will contact your VergeSense administrator(s) and work with them to resolve any outages. VergeSense is open to further development of alerts and notification as required.

Identity and authentication

• User authentication needed: Yes
• User authentication:
  • Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
  • Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
• Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels: Access is granted on a least privilege necessary basis to perform your job and respective duties. All authentication has passwords enforced and multi-factor authentication required.
• 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 contact the support team to get audit information
• How long user audit data is stored for: At least 12 months
• Access to supplier activity audit information: Users contact the support team to get audit information
• How long supplier audit data is stored for: At least 12 months
• How long system logs are stored for: At least 12 months

Security governance

• Named board-level person responsible for service security: Yes
• Security governance certified: Yes
• Security governance standards: ISO/IEC 27001
• Information security policies and processes: We follow the ISO 27001 framework and all policies and processes conform to this standard. Additional details can be provided on request.
• Software Security Code of Practice: Yes

Operational security

• Configuration and change management standard: Supplier-defined controls
• Configuration and change management approach: VergeSense has a comprehensive configuration and change management policy comprising documentation, governance, administration, and communication of service changes to production environments. Our policies & documentation can be provided on request.
• Vulnerability management type: Supplier-defined controls
• Vulnerability management approach: The security officer is responsible for conducting complete, accurate risk assessments that address all relevant information security threats and developing and implementing risk treatment plans to manage risk. The dedicated security team monitor numerous potential vulnerability sources and will add discovered vulnerabilities to our vulnerability & remediation tracking solution. All patches will be applied by the due dates specified. Our detailed policies can be provided on request.
• Protective monitoring type: Supplier-defined controls
• Protective monitoring approach: The Security Team will classify, track, and remediate identified vulnerabilities in accordance with our Vulnerability Management Procedures, and according to the following severity levels: Critical, High, Medium and Low. Our policies and documentation can be provided on request.
• Incident management type: Supplier-defined controls
• Incident management approach: VergeSense has a robust incident management approach and has a designated incident response team who are responsible for the management and oversight of our incident management plan. This follows: Phase 1 - Identification & Notification Phase 2 - Containment & Eradication Phase 3 - Post incident activity; such as reporting, review & prevention A full incident response tracking log is kept and the security officer or incident response lead can log incidents as required. Our policies can be provided upon request.
• Post-quantum cryptography secure: No

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: 2%
• Between £250,000 and £500,000: 2%
• Between £500,001 and £1,000,000: 3%
• Between £1,000,001 and £2,500,000: 4%
• Between £2,500,001 and £5,000,000: 5%
• Over £5,000,001: 5%

Non-mandatory Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: Yes
• Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001: BARR Certifications
• ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date: Wednesday 27 November 2024
• What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover: Not Applicable
• ISO 28000:2022 certification: No
• ISO 9001 certification: Yes
• Who accredited the ISO 9001 certification: LRQA Limited
• ISO 9001 accreditation date: Friday 7 March 2025
• What the ISO 9001 doesn’t cover: Not Applicable
• Quality management systems (QMS): Yes
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: No
• Cyber essentials: Yes
• Please provide your Cyber Essentials Certificate Number: 279aeea2-1841-41c7-b493-ccb05aa05c3c
• Cyber essentials plus: No
• Cyber Essentials Alternative: In relation to the services you do not have a current and valid Cyber Essentials Plus certificate which has been awarded by one of the government approved Cyber Essentials accreditation bodies but you are working towards gaining it, and will be in a position to confirm that you have been awarded a current and valid Cyber Essentials Plus certificate by one of the government approved accreditation bodies within 12 months of the date of award.
• Other security certifications: Yes
• Any other security certifications: SOC 2 Type II

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
    • 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
    • How the supplier will work with NGOs, trade unions or other businesses to address modern slavery risk
    • 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

  • 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

    • 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
    • Advertising of supply chain opportunities openly and to ensure they are accessible to a diverse range of businesses, including advertising all subcontracting opportunities on Contracts Finder
    • 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
    • Measures to involve local stakeholders and/or users in design (e.g. in the design of services, systems, products or buildings)
    • 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
    • Measures to engage users and communities and build relationships to increase community integration build trust and influence how the contract is delivered
    • Plans to respond flexibly and adapt approaches to community engagement and initiatives

  • 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.

    • 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
    • Understanding barriers to access to health and social care services or employment opportunities e.g. digital inclusion
    • 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

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at GCloud_tenders@jll.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.