ANS GROUP LIMITED

vDPO

Data Protection services support UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018 compliance through consultancy, gap analysis, and technology tools, helping organisations understand and safeguard data. Services include advice, policy writing, and managing regular data activities, such as Subject Access Requests.

Features

• Access to experienced data protection expertise on demand
• Supports compliance with GDPR and other data protection regulations
• Reduces the risk of data privacy breaches and regulatory penalties
• Provides independent oversight and trusted advice
• Improves organizational awareness of privacy obligations
• Scales privacy support as business and regulatory needs evolve

Benefits

• Dedicated Virtual DPO with regulatory and industry expertise
• GDPR and privacy framework gap assessments
• Privacy impact assessments (DPIAs) and risk analysis
• Policy, process, and record-of-processing support
• Breach response and regulator engagement support
• Ongoing privacy governance, reporting, and advisory services

• Education pricing available

Service documents

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

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Framework

G-Cloud 15

Service ID

827048653293836

Contact

Steve Carroll
+44 (0) 1612271000
tenders@ansgroup.co.uk

About the service

• Service categories:

  Cloud Support Services

  Security Services

  • Security strategy
  • Security risk management

Service scope

• Service constraints: No

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Yes
• Support response times: Calls are responded to within 3 rings. Service Ticket response time is dependent on the criticality: 1. Critical - Immediate Response 2. High - Response within 10 minutes 3. Medium - Response within 1 hour 4. Low - Response within 4 hours 5. Very Low - Response within 24 hours. The standard SLA response times are applicable from 09:00 to 17:00 Monday to Friday (excluding UK Bank Holidays). 365/24/7 Support is also available as a service at an additional cost.
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: Yes
• Online ticketing support accessibility: WCAG 2.2 AA
• Phone support: Yes
• Phone support availability: 24 hours, 7 days a week
• Web chat support: No
• Support levels: All ANS customers have access to ticket and telephone-based support, unless they choose to take an unmanaged service. Customers have access to a named Account Manager who takes overall responsibility for the customer's commercial, technical and support relationship with ANS. Customers are assigned a support ""pod"" based on the type of solution they have with ANS. This ensures customers will always be supported by the same core team of support engineers who are technical experts in their particular solution. Enterprise and public sector customers also have access to a named Customer Success Manager in addition to their Account Manager.; ; Standard support is provided 08:00 to 18:00 Monday to Friday and includes 1st line (User support) through to system management, monitoring and administration. Additional support is available to extend the service support to 24/7 at additional cost.

Supplier type

• Supplier type: Not a reseller

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Conforms to BS7858:2019
• Government security clearance: Security Clearance (SC)

Pricing

• Discount for educational organisations: Yes

Architecture roles

Business architect

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Trainee business architect	£1,150.00	£1,150.00
Associate business architect	£1,250.00	£1,250.00
Business architect	£1,350.00	£1,350.00
Lead business architect	£1,500.00	£1,500.00

Data architect

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Data architect	£1,250.00	£1,250.00
Senior data architect	£1,500.00	£1,500.00
Chief data architect	£2,000.00	£2,000.00

Enterprise architect

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Enterprise architect	£1,500.00	£1,500.00
Senior enterprise architect	£1,500.00	£1,500.00
Lead enterprise architect	£2,000.00	£2,000.00
Principal enterprise architect	£2,500.00	£2,500.00

Network architect

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Associate network architect	£1,150.00	£1,150.00
Network architect	£1,350.00	£1,350.00
Lead network architect	£1,500.00	£1,500.00

Security architect

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Security architect	£1,350.00	£1,350.00
Lead security architect	£1,500.00	£1,500.00
Principal security architect	£2,000.00	£2,000.00

Solution architect

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Associate solution architect	£1,250.00	£1,250.00
Solution architect	£1,350.00	£1,350.00
Senior solution architect	£1,500.00	£1,500.00
Lead solution architect	£1,500.00	£1,500.00
Principal solution architect	£2,000.00	£2,000.00

Technical architect

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Associate technical architect	£1,250.00	£1,250.00
Technical architect	£1,350.00	£1,350.00
Senior technical architect	£1,500.00	£1,500.00
Lead technical architect	£1,500.00	£1,500.00
Principal technical architect	£2,000.00	£2,000.00

Cyber security roles

Cyber security audit and assurance

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Lead cyber security audit and assurance	£1,250.00	£1,250.00
Principal cyber security audit and assurance	£1,350.00	£1,350.00

Cyber security governance and risk management

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Associate cyber security governance and risk manager	£1,150.00	£1,150.00
Lead cyber security governance and risk manager	£1,250.00	£1,250.00
Principal cyber security governance and risk manager	£1,350.00	£1,350.00

Cyber security monitoring

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Associate cyber security monitoring	£1,150.00	£1,150.00
Lead cyber security monitoring	£1,250.00	£1,250.00
Principal cyber security monitoring	£1,350.00	£1,350.00

Cyber security incident response

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Associate cyber incident response	£1,150.00	£1,150.00
Lead cyber security incident response	£1,250.00	£1,250.00
Principal cyber security incident response	£1,350.00	£1,350.00

Cyber security vulnerability management

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Associate cyber security vulnerability management	£1,150.00	£1,150.00
Lead cyber security vulnerability management	£1,250.00	£1,250.00
Principal cyber security vulnerability management	£1,350.00	£1,350.00

Cyber security digital forensics

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Associate cyber security digital forensics	£1,150.00	£1,150.00
Lead cyber security digital forensics	£1,250.00	£1,250.00
Principal cyber security digital forensics	£1,350.00	£1,350.00

Cyber security testing

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Associate cyber security testing	£1,150.00	£1,150.00
Lead cyber security penetration testing	£1,250.00	£1,250.00
Principal cyber security testing	£1,350.00	£1,350.00

Cyber security secure design

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Associate cyber security secure systems architecture and design	£1,150.00	£1,150.00
Lead cyber security secure systems architecture and design	£1,250.00	£1,250.00
Principal cyber security secure systems architecture and design	£1,350.00	£1,350.00

Data roles

Analytics engineer

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Trainee analytics engineer	£1,150.00	£1,150.00
Analytics engineer	£1,350.00	£1,350.00
Senior analytics engineer	£1,500.00	£1,500.00
Lead analytics engineer	£1,500.00	£1,500.00
Head of analytics engineering	£2,500.00	£2,500.00

Data analyst

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Associate analyst	£1,150.00	£1,150.00
Data analyst	£1,350.00	£1,350.00
Senior data analyst	£1,500.00	£1,500.00
Principal data analyst	£2,000.00	£2,000.00

Data engineer

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Data engineer	£1,150.00	£1,150.00
Senior data engineer	£1,350.00	£1,350.00
Lead data engineer	£1,500.00	£1,500.00
Head of data engineering	£2,000.00	£2,000.00

Data scientist

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Trainee data scientist	£1,150.00	£1,150.00
Associate data scientist	£1,250.00	£1,250.00
Data scientist	£1,350.00	£1,350.00
Principal data scientist	£2,000.00	£2,000.00
Lead data scientist	£2,500.00	£2,500.00
Head of data science	£3,000.00	£3,000.00

Machine learning engineer

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Senior machine learning engineer	£1,500.00	£1,500.00
Lead machine learning engineer	£2,000.00	£2,000.00

Performance analyst

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Associate performance analyst	£1,150.00	£1,150.00
Performance analyst	£1,350.00	£1,350.00
Senior performance analyst	£1,500.00	£1,500.00
Lead performance analyst	£2,500.00	£2,500.00
Head of performance analysis	£3,000.00	£3,000.00

IT operations roles

Application operations engineer

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Associate application operations engineer	£1,150.00	£1,150.00
Application operations engineer	£1,350.00	£1,350.00
Senior application operations engineer	£1,500.00	£1,500.00
Lead application operations engineer	£2,000.00	£2,000.00
Principal application operations engineer	£2,500.00	£2,500.00

Business relationship manager

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Business relationship manager	£1,350.00	£1,350.00
Senior business relationship manager	£1,500.00	£1,500.00
Lead business relationship manager	£2,000.00	£2,000.00

Change and release manager

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Configuration analyst	£1,350.00	£1,350.00
Change and release analyst	£1,500.00	£1,500.00
Change and release manager	£2,000.00	£2,000.00

Command and control centre manager

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Operations analyst	£1,350.00	£1,350.00
Senior operations analyst	£1,500.00	£1,500.00
Operational control manager	£2,000.00	£2,000.00
Head of command and control	£3,000.00	£3,000.00

End user computing engineer

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Associate end user computing engineer	£1,350.00	£1,350.00
End user computing engineer	£1,500.00	£1,500.00
Senior end user computing engineer	£2,000.00	£2,000.00
Lead end user computing engineer	£2,000.00	£2,000.00
Principal end user computing engineer	£2,500.00	£2,500.00

Incident manager

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Incident manager	£1,350.00	£1,350.00
Major incident manager	£2,000.00	£2,000.00

Infrastructure engineer

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Associate infrastructure engineer	£1,250.00	£1,250.00
Infrastructure engineer	£1,350.00	£1,350.00
Senior infrastructure engineer	£1,500.00	£1,500.00
Lead infrastructure engineer	£2,000.00	£2,000.00
Principal infrastructure engineer	£2,500.00	£2,500.00

Infrastructure operations engineer

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Associate infrastructure operations engineer	£1,150.00	£1,150.00
Infrastructure operations engineer	£1,350.00	£1,350.00
Senior infrastructure operations engineer	£1,500.00	£1,500.00
Lead infrastructure operations engineer	£2,000.00	£2,000.00
Principal infrastructure operations engineer	£2,500.00	£2,500.00

Problem manager

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Problem analyst	£1,150.00	£1,150.00
Problem manager	£1,500.00	£1,500.00

Service desk manager

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Service desk analyst	£1,150.00	£1,150.00
Senior service desk analyst	£1,350.00	£1,350.00
Service desk manager	£1,500.00	£1,500.00
Head of service desk	£2,500.00	£2,500.00

Service transition manager

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Service acceptance analyst	£1,150.00	£1,150.00
Service readiness analyst	£1,350.00	£1,350.00
Service transition manager	£1,500.00	£1,500.00
Lead service transition manager	£2,000.00	£2,000.00

Product and delivery roles

Business analyst

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Trainee business analyst	£1,150.00	£1,150.00
Junior business analyst	£1,250.00	£1,250.00
Business analyst	£1,500.00	£1,500.00
Senior business analyst	£2,000.00	£2,000.00
Lead business analyst	£2,500.00	£2,500.00
Head of business analysis	£3,000.00	£3,000.00

Delivery manager

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Associate delivery manager	£1,150.00	£1,150.00
Delivery manager	£1,350.00	£1,350.00
Senior delivery manager	£2,000.00	£2,000.00
Head of (Agile) delivery management	£2,500.00	£2,500.00

Product manager

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Associate product manager	£1,150.00	£1,150.00
Product manager	£1,350.00	£1,350.00
Senior product manager	£1,500.00	£1,500.00
Lead product manager	£1,500.00	£1,500.00
Head of product	£2,500.00	£2,500.00

Programme delivery manager

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Programme delivery manager	£1,500.00	£1,500.00

Service owner

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Service owner	£1,500.00	£1,500.00

Quality assurance testing (QAT) roles

Quality assurance testing (QAT) analyst

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Tester (QAT)	£1,150.00	£1,150.00
QAT analyst	£1,350.00	£1,350.00
Senior QAT analyst	£1,500.00	£1,500.00
Lead QAT analyst	£2,000.00	£2,000.00

Test engineer

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Tester (test engineer)	£1,150.00	£1,150.00
Test engineer	£1,150.00	£1,150.00
Senior test engineer	£1,350.00	£1,350.00
Lead test engineer	£1,500.00	£1,500.00

Test manager

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Test manager	£2,000.00	£2,000.00
Head of test	£2,500.00	£2,500.00

Software development roles

Development operations (DevOps) engineer

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Apprentice DevOps engineer	£1,150.00	£1,150.00
Junior DevOps engineer	£1,150.00	£1,150.00
DevOps engineer	£1,350.00	£1,350.00
Senior DevOps engineer	£1,500.00	£1,500.00
Senior DevOps engineer - management	£2,000.00	£2,000.00
Lead DevOps engineer	£2,000.00	£2,000.00
Lead DevOps engineer - management	£2,500.00	£2,500.00
Principal DevOps engineer	£2,500.00	£2,500.00
Principal DevOps engineer - management	£3,000.00	£3,000.00

Frontend developer

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Apprentice frontend developer	£1,150.00	£1,150.00
Junior frontend developer	£1,150.00	£1,150.00
Frontend developer	£1,250.00	£1,250.00
Senior frontend developer	£1,350.00	£1,350.00
Lead frontend developer	£1,500.00	£1,500.00
Head of frontend development	£2,000.00	£2,000.00

Software developer

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Apprentice developer	£1,150.00	£1,150.00
Junior developer	£1,150.00	£1,150.00
Developer	£1,250.00	£1,250.00
Senior developer	£1,500.00	£1,500.00
Senior developer - management	£2,000.00	£2,000.00
Lead developer	£2,500.00	£2,500.00
Lead developer - management	£2,500.00	£2,500.00
Principal developer	£3,000.00	£3,000.00
Principal developer - management	£3,000.00	£3,000.00

User-centred design roles

Content designer

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Associate content designer	£1,150.00	£1,150.00
Junior content designer	£1,150.00	£1,150.00
Content designer	£1,350.00	£1,350.00
Senior content designer	£1,500.00	£1,500.00
Lead content designer	£2,000.00	£2,000.00
Head of content design	£2,500.00	£2,500.00

Content strategist

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Content strategist	£1,350.00	£1,350.00

Interaction designer

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Associate interaction designer	£1,150.00	£1,150.00
Junior interaction designer	£1,150.00	£1,150.00
Interaction designer	£1,350.00	£1,350.00
Senior interaction designer	£1,500.00	£1,500.00
Lead interaction designer	£2,000.00	£2,000.00
Head of interaction design	£2,500.00	£2,500.00

Service designer

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Associate service designer	£1,150.00	£1,150.00
Junior service designer	£1,150.00	£1,150.00
Service designer	£1,350.00	£1,350.00
Senior service designer	£1,500.00	£1,500.00
Lead service designer	£2,000.00	£2,000.00
Head of service design	£2,500.00	£2,500.00

Technical writer

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Technical writer	£1,500.00	£1,500.00
Lead technical writer	£2,000.00	£2,000.00

User researcher

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Associate user researcher	£1,150.00	£1,150.00
Junior user researcher	£1,150.00	£1,150.00
User researcher	£1,350.00	£1,350.00
Senior user researcher	£1,500.00	£1,500.00
Lead user researcher	£2,000.00	£2,000.00
Head of user research	£2,500.00	£2,500.00

Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: Yes
• ISO/IEC 27001 accredited by: LRQA
• ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date: Tuesday 24 June 2025
• What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover: N/A Full scope
• ISO 28000:2022 certification: No
• ISO 9001 certification: Yes
• ISO 9001 certification accredited by: LRQA
• ISO 9001 accreditation date: Tuesday 24 June 2025
• What the ISO 9001 doesn’t cover: N/A - Full Scope
• Quality management systems (QMS): Yes
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: Yes
• PCI DSS certification accredited by: PCI Security Standards Council
• PCI DSS accreditation date: Friday 8 August 2025
• What the PCI DSS doesn’t cover: No cardholder data in scope.; No insecure services, protocols, or daemons.; No wireless networks in scope.; ANS does not have access to any cardholder data.; ANS does not have access to any cardholder data.; All in-scope servers have Windows; Defender AV solution installed.; All removable media is disabled by default; No bespoke and custom software development; The only bespoke solution is TechDB; No public-facing web applications in scope.; No pre-production environment; No system development; No application and system accounts in scope.; No user access to query repositories of stored cardholder data.; No remote access to customer premises; No cardholder data or customer access in scope.; MFA system is not susceptible to replay attacks; No application and system accounts that can be used interactively.; No media with cardholder data.; No hard-copy materials with cardholder data.; No POI devices that capture payment card data in scope.; No CHD in scope.; ANS is not a multi-tenant provider.; No payment pages in scope.; No cryptographic suites or protocols in scope.; There are no TPSPs in scope.; There is no cardholder data in scope.
• Cyber essentials: Yes
• Cyber Essentials Certificate Number: C0b25fab-fa90-4e67-a2eb-851d67f11fd9
• Cyber essentials plus: Yes
• Cyber Essentials Plus Certificate Number: 9f752e61-ca81-49da-a1d0-5b982f14ce38
• Other security certifications: Yes
• Any other security certifications:
  • ISO27018: 2019
  • ISO 42001 - AI
  • ISO27017: 2015

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

  • 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
  • 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
• 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.

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