BYTES SOFTWARE SERVICES LIMITED

Bytes Microsoft Cloud 24x7x365 Technical Support

The Bytes Microsoft Support Team is here to provide comprehensive Cloud Technical support for your Microsoft Cloud services.

We offer experienced technicians across all Support levels, from 1st Line Support to 3rd Line Support, including the management and coordination of escalations to Microsoft’s 3rd Line Support team.

Features

• Expert Support for Microsoft 365, Azure, on-premise, and Online Services
• Technical Break/Fix Support
• Critical P1 Escalation Ticket Support Manager
• 24x7 Support with Vendor Escalation
• Root Cause Analysis
• Unlimited Incident Logging
• Monthly Service Performance Reporting
• Service Desk Portal
• First Response and Communication SLAs

Benefits

• Escalation level engineers handle every call
• Service Levels tailored to meet enterprise demands.
• Reduce demand on internal support function
• Access to qualified and experienced technical resources
• Speedy return to Business As Usual operations.
• Full transparency through effect and timing reporting
• Enabling budgeting and forecasting of reduced support costs

• Education pricing available

Service documents

• 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 tenders@bytes.co.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.

Framework

G-Cloud 15

Service ID

620577505732039

Contact

Richard Read
01372 418 500
tenders@bytes.co.uk

About the service

• Service categories:

  Cloud Support Services

  Ongoing Support

  • Product support capabilities
  • Logging and management of incidents
  • Reporting and proactive results analysis
  • Dispatch of service technicians and/or parts
  • End user training coordination
  • Other

Service scope

• Service constraints: None

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Yes
• Support response times: Response times differ with severity:; ; P1 - 30 mins; P2 - 1 hour; P3 - 2 hours; P4 - 2 hours
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: Yes
• Online ticketing support accessibility: None or don’t know
• Phone support: Yes
• Phone support availability: 24 hours, 7 days a week
• Web chat support: No
• Support levels: Bytes offers three tiers of support for Microsoft Cloud services purchased via a CSP agreement:; ; 1. Core Support: Technical Break-fix Support for Azure & M365, Monday-Friday (P1 Out of Hours only); 2. Enhanced Support: Technical Break-fix Support for Azure & M365, On-Premise, 24x7x365; 3. Expert Support: Technical Break-fix Support for Azure & M365, On-Premise, 24x7x365, Direct to 3rd Line Engineers (bypassing 1st & 2nd Line), Annual Azure/M365 Environmental Review & Consultancy Days

Supplier type

• Supplier type: Not a reseller

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Other security clearance
• Government security clearance: Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS)

Pricing

• Discount for educational organisations: Yes

Cyber security roles

Cyber security audit and assurance

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Lead cyber security audit and assurance	£1,650.00	£1,650.00

Cyber security secure design

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Lead cyber security secure systems architecture and design	£1,650.00	£1,650.00

Data roles

Data engineer

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Data engineer	£950.00	£950.00

Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: Yes
• ISO/IEC 27001 accredited by: Citation ISO Certification Ltd
• ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date: Wednesday 5 March 2025
• What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover: N/A
• ISO 28000:2022 certification: No
• ISO 9001 certification: Yes
• ISO 9001 certification accredited by: Peers Quality Assurance Ltd
• ISO 9001 accreditation date: Wednesday 1 November 2023
• What the ISO 9001 doesn’t cover: N/A
• Quality management systems (QMS): Yes
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: Yes
• PCI DSS certification accredited by: SecurityMetrics
• PCI DSS accreditation date: Thursday 23 October 2025
• What the PCI DSS doesn’t cover: N/A
• Cyber essentials: Yes
• Cyber Essentials Certificate Number: 3990f676-b304-42c4-9776-0869f2d32229
• Cyber essentials plus: Yes
• Cyber Essentials Plus Certificate Number: 21e94cf4-cda7-4d3a-8343-71e6363aef69
• Other security certifications: Yes
• Any other security certifications: IASME Cyber Assurance L2

Social value

• 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
  • 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
  • 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 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

  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

  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
• 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
  • 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
• 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
  • 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
  • Inclusive and accessible development practices, including guidance for line managers on recruiting, managing and developing people with a disability or health condition

  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 issues relating to entering the contract workforce
• 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

• 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 tenders@bytes.co.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.