OLM Systems

Valuing Care Costing Software

Valuing Care has built a range of unique software tools based on our models/templates, enabling commissioners to better control/understand the care market. Cloud based software enable Fair Cost of Care exercises to be completed by Commissioners. The software works in Older People, Learning Disabilities, Mental Health, CHC and Children’s Services.

Features

• Purchase placements in any care home knowing they are VFM
• Understand overall profitability of an existing care home placement
• Measure the sustainability of cases and analyse their underlying cost
• Inflate placements individually based on their underlying profitability and cost
• Generate an overall view of your market spend
• Generate aggregate provider operating margin and staff pay rates
• Manage inflation yearly uplifts with targeted measures for specific providers
• Generate provider reports that aggregate all package costs
• Analyse provider health indicators such as CQC reports and accounts
• Target Specific placements with greatest operating margin

Benefits

• Early warning of placements - lowest level of financial sustainability
• Benchmark current fee rates and Valuing Care’s national data
• Use our templates to collect local residential care home costs
• Scenario model inflation/cost pressures when projecting fee rate increases
• Evidence base calculations of fair cost of care exercises
• Benchmarking Against Valuing Care’s VFM rates and other nearby authorities
• Breakdown additional first party costs required for self-funders
• Provider template upload directly into the software

£3,000 to £30,000 a licence a year

• Free trial available

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

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Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

109239551068779

Contact

Andy Humphries
07702 904206
bidteam@olmgroup.com

Service scope

• Software add-on or extension: No
• Cloud deployment model: Public cloud
• Service constraints: No
• System requirements:
  • Windows 8 or later
  • IOS 10+
  • Chrome

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Email or online ticketing
• Support response times: All emails received during the working week are answered within that; business day.; ; At weekends, the emails are answered within the next business working day.
• 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: No
• Onsite support: Yes, at extra cost
• Support levels: Technical support for data issues and user queries are dealt with by a named individual assigned to each customer. New users are supported by in-house training, normally provided virtually where Valuing Care will support users to load specific cases onto the system. Costing support is given for template issues, so that users can better understand provider costs.
• Support available to third parties: Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

• Getting started: We provide a complete on-boarding service for our users, this includes trial access to the live site as well as on-site and on-line training. We deliver user training in a number of ways to meet your specific requirements. We offer the following approaches to delivery of training and support: workshops, webinars, videos and train the trainer. In addition, all users are provided with a quick reference guide.
• Service documentation: Yes
• Documentation formats:
  • PDF
  • Other
• Other documentation formats: Word
• End-of-contract data extraction: Our Account Managers will work with clients to provide data usage and other reporting information in an agreed format. Outputs are normally exported into Excel.
• End-of-contract process: The service end is in line with the stated contract end process. Please refer to the contract for a definition.

Using the service

• Web browser interface: Yes
• Supported browsers:
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Safari
• Application to install: No
• Designed for use on mobile devices: No
• Service interface: No
• User support accessibility: WCAG 2.1 AA or EN 301 549
• API: Yes
• What users can and can't do using the API: Users would need to connect to their Care Assessment software.
• API documentation: Yes
• API documentation formats: Open API (also known as Swagger)
• API sandbox or test environment: No
• Customisation available: Yes
• Description of customisation: Users can amend Service Types and specific cost lines.

Scaling

• Independence of resources: The service is supplied via a scale-able virtual machine that ensures that users are not impacted by any additional demands on the website.

Analytics

• Service usage metrics: Yes
• Metrics types: N/A.
• Reporting types:
  • Regular reports
  • Reports on request

Resellers

• Supplier type: Not a reseller

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Conforms to BS7858:2019
• Government security clearance: Up to Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS)

Asset protection

• Knowledge of data storage and processing locations: Yes
• Data storage and processing locations:
  • United Kingdom
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
• User control over data storage and processing locations: Yes
• Datacentre security standards: Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 3.0)
• Penetration testing frequency: Less than once a year
• Penetration testing approach: ‘IT Health Check’ performed by a Tigerscheme qualified provider or a CREST-approved service provider
• Protecting data at rest: Other
• Other data at rest protection approach: Not applicable to this service
• Data sanitisation process: No
• Equipment disposal approach: A third-party destruction service

Data importing and exporting

• Data export approach: Any amendments, new users or deletions can be supplied to us directly using an excel spreadsheet or by email notification.
• Data export formats: Other
• Other data export formats: Excel
• Data import formats: Other
• Other data import formats: It is possible for users to upload data

Data-in-transit protection

• Data protection between buyer and supplier networks:
  • Private network or public sector network
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
  • Legacy SSL and TLS (under version 1.2)
• Data protection within supplier network:
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
  • Legacy SSL and TLS (under version 1.2)

Availability and resilience

• Guaranteed availability: As part of our SLA we provide availability of 99.95.
• Approach to resilience: This is available on request.
• Outage reporting: Email notification is provided in the event of an outage.

Identity and authentication

• User authentication needed: Yes
• User authentication:
  • Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
  • Username or password
• Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels: All users are required to access with a unique user name and password.
• Access restriction testing frequency: At least every 6 months
• Management access authentication: Username or password

Audit information for users

• Access to user activity audit information: You control when users can access audit information
• How long user audit data is stored for: User-defined
• Access to supplier activity audit information: Users contact the support team to get audit information
• How long supplier audit data is stored for: User-defined
• How long system logs are stored for: Less than 1 month

Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: Yes
• Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001: BSi
• ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date: 04/12/23
• What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover: N/A
• ISO 28000:2007 certification: No
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: No
• Cyber essentials: Yes
• Cyber essentials plus: Yes
• Other security certifications: No

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: Cyber Essentials & Cyber Essentials Plus.
• Information security policies and processes: This is available on request.

Operational security

• Configuration and change management standard: Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
• Configuration and change management approach: We are fully ISO certified and these policies can be inspected as part of a client reviewing that information.
• Vulnerability management type: Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
• Vulnerability management approach: This is available on request.
• Protective monitoring type: Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
• Protective monitoring approach: This is available on request.
• Incident management type: Conforms to a recognised standard, for example, CSA CCM v3.0 or ISO/IEC 27035:2011 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
• Incident management approach: This is available on request.

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 v3.0)

Public sector networks

• Connection to public sector networks: No

Social Value

• Social Value:

  Social Value

  • Fighting climate change
  • Covid-19 recovery
  • Tackling economic inequality
  • Equal opportunity
  • Wellbeing

  Fighting climate change

  OLM is committed to achieving a sustainable world and fighting climate change through the reduction of carbon emissions. We have an Environmental Management System (EMS) and a Sustainability Programme in place, which detail what OLM is doing as an organisation to help the environment and reduce our carbon footprint. ; ; OLM’s Sustainability Programme is structured according to the ISO14001:2015 Environmental Standard clauses, and we deliver this to employees via an Environmental Management Operating Manual. We also keep a group-wide register of environmental objectives, targets and action plans.; ; One of the incentives we operate to encourage staff members to play a role in fighting climate change is the Ride to Work Scheme, which promotes a culture of cycling to work instead of using carbon-emitting cars and trains. ; ; OLM currently recycles 99.9% of the paper used and all electronic equipment is recycled and/ or decommissioned, thereby minimising the damage to the environment. ; ; OLM uses online meeting solutions to reduce staff travel and encourages staff to use public transport wherever possible in order to reduce our carbon footprint.; ; We collaborate with customers to identify paper-based business processes within the scope of the project and replace them with electronic systems, therefore, reducing the paper use. This includes promoting a paperless culture where communications and promotions are delivered digitally instead of via print as much as possible.; ; We also mobilise staff to enable mobile working, thereby reducing costs and improving the overall carbon footprint.

  Covid-19 recovery

  Since transitioning out of the 2020/21 lockdowns and related social distancing restrictions, OLM has continued to promote a clean and safe culture that remains vigilant of Covid risks. With this in mind, we have extended our remote working operations, thereby encouraging staff to work from home for majority of the time and only visiting the offices for group meetings and teamwork requiring a ‘needs in-person presence’. ; ; Due to this approach, we have significantly reduced our space to one floor at our Head Office, operating a new hot desk facility, and ensuring staff book in digitally to maintain manageable attendance. ; ; Within the building, we continue to offer hand sanitising facilities and distribute Covid-19 lateral flow to staff after they have visited. Any Covid-19 contractions are immediately reported company wide and sickness absence management continues to consider this additional threat.; ; In terms of supporting our wider stakeholder community, OLM previously designed and launched a new lite version of our case management software, which we offered for free during the pandemic to Local Authorities and charities who were involved in the Covid-19 response, to better support their remote operations. This software remains available today at a discounted option compared to our premium software.; ; Our Group cyber security arm, Hytec, also provided consultancy, advice, and guidance services to our cyber security customers on how to keep their operations safe from cyber-attacks during lockdown and the working-from-home culture.; ; OLM has (and will continue to, where required) completed Account Management meetings and Users Groups virtually, in order to ensure the safety of our staff and customers. Where necessary, face-to-face sessions have been reintroduced. This approach ensures our customer’s requirements and objectives are factored into such sessions.

  Tackling economic inequality

  OLM is committed to driving high value jobs in the technology sector/ creating opportunities that improve economic inequality. It’s not just the responsibility of Social Care organisations, but sustainable and supportive industry that makes a difference and sustains the future of our communities.; ; In 2022, we launched our OLM Academy to provide opportunities to individuals who show learning potential over academic excellence. The academy has already started to recruit from some of the UK’s poorest areas. We have also offered a ‘Ways to Work Scheme’ for many years to encourage young people to gain experience from companies, which leads to full time employment. ; ; We understand not all individuals are able to pursue academia and prefer vocational experience to kick start their careers. It is important to give people a glimpse into organisations at an early age in order to allow them to broaden their horizons on choices for their future. We have found this highly successful in bringing new talent into local areas, promoting economic growth, as well as giving people a gateway into full time employment. ; ; We also work with a number of local good causes and charities, allowing staff time to partake in fundraising activities. Recent examples include:; • Raising £2k for ‘Children in Need’; • Donating to Crisis and Help for Heroes ; • OLM@30: Walk in the Shoes of our Customers challenge - A challenge designed to raise awareness of our customers/local causes.; ; Where OLM conducts events/ carries out projects, it procures products/ services from local businesses. Services are procured through a local supply chain to support the local economy. We’re always keen to establish mechanisms for supporting local groups in terms of financial donations/ equipment.

  Equal opportunity

  OLM operates an Equality & Diversity policy that promotes and develops equality in the workplace of OLM. The policy ensures fairness in our decision making and maintains a good working relationship with all employees/ customers. ; ; We treat everyone with respect and consideration. There is no discrimination at OLM regardless of gender, marital or civil status, gender reassignment, pregnancy and parental leave, sexual orientation, nationality, national origin, ethnicity, race, colour, religion or belief, age, disability, part-time/ fixed-term working. ; ; OLM’s policy on equal opportunities complies with the statutory prohibitions on discrimination, so as to avoid unlawful discriminatory practices. This policy is monitored/ reviewed by the HR department in January of each year.; ; OLM is committed to driving high value jobs in the technology sector/creating opportunities that improve economic inequality. In March 2022, OLM launched a Developer Academy offering placements to individuals starting their career in software development in the UK. The academy has been specifically designed to support individuals who show learning potential over academic excellence.; ; We understand not all individuals are able to pursue academia and prefer vocational experience to kick start their careers. It is important to give people a glimpse into organisations at an early age to allow them to broaden their horizons on choices for their future. We have found this highly successful in bringing new talent into local areas, promoting economic growth, as well as giving people a gateway into full time employment. ; ; We promote equality/fairness in work - we advise our clients of the importance of using suitable accessible language within their citizen portals to ensure citizens are able to access the guidance on the support available.; ; In supporting the above, OLM staff are required to complete online training in equality, diversity, and inclusion as part of their joining OLM and as an ongoing process.

  Wellbeing

  OLM believes people and values are the lifeblood of our business. Too many organisations simply value words which don’t translate into the reality of the day-to-day. Our values flow through everything that we do - they define who we are and what we stand for.; ; Our values have been defined by our people and have been integral to the journey and will continue to be for our future. Core OLM values are:; • Enthusiastic: We enjoy what we do and get the job done; • Inquisitive: Start with why? Strive to deliver the best results ; • Collaborative: Work in partnership to co-design the very best solutions.; ; OLM maintains a Health & Safety policy - we also provide a H&S Handbook to staff, detailing the company’s intent to protect employees’ safety and to promote preventative measures designed to protect all staff against the risk of injury/illness. In line with this, OLM has two Employee Assistance Programmes (EAPs):; • Smart Health; • Care First.; ; Both schemes are designed to help employees with a range of life matters. These programmes intend to help staff and their families deal with personal problems that might adversely impact their work performance, health/wellbeing. The programmes cover areas such as Mental health support, managing money/relationships, family matters, work/careers, returning to work/retirement/illness and injury etc.; ; OLM offers employees eye care vouchers, childcare vouchers, a Cycle to Work scheme, and Menopause workshops, drop-in sessions, and a private online discussion channel, where employees can discuss any matters relating to menopause. ; ; OLM also has an above average annual leave entitlement, as well being fully compliant with the Living Wage.; ; Where OLM conducts events/carries out projects, it procures products/services from local businesses. Services are procured through a local supply chain to support the local economy.

Pricing

• Price: £3,000 to £30,000 a licence a year
• Discount for educational organisations: No
• Free trial available: Yes
• Description of free trial: Trial access to our software for 7 days using pre-loaded cost models, so that prospective purchasers can test provider cost scenarios against our database and workflows.

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card

  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 bidteam@olmgroup.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.