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GLOWAR LTD

Observability and Service Performance Transformation

Glowar provides observability and service performance transformation to help public sector organisations understand, measure and improve digital service health. The service focuses on defining effective observability strategies, metrics and ways of working that improve reliability, performance and decision-making, without providing tooling or operational monitoring services.

Features

  • Observability maturity assessment across services, platforms and teams
  • Definition of service health, reliability and performance metrics
  • Design of logging, metrics and tracing approaches
  • Service-level indicator and objective design guidance
  • Integration of observability into delivery and operational workflows
  • Service performance reporting and insight design
  • Alignment of observability with incident and problem management
  • Senior advisory on reliability and service improvement

Benefits

  • Improves visibility of service health and performance issues
  • Reduces incidents through earlier detection of service degradation
  • Improves decision-making using meaningful service performance metrics
  • Strengthens reliability and resilience of digital services
  • Improves collaboration between delivery and operational teams
  • Reduces time to diagnose and resolve service issues
  • Supports continuous service improvement and learning
  • Improves confidence in service performance reporting

Pricing

Service documents

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 g.whitehouse@glowar.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

1 1 3 3 5 7 8 4 0 4 5 4 3 2 1

Contact

GLOWAR LTD Graham Whitehouse
Telephone: 07940180281
Email: g.whitehouse@glowar.co.uk

About the service

Service categories

Cloud Support Services

Quality Assurance and Performance Testing

  • Assurance/testing design
  • Infrastructure performance testing

Performance testing

  • Capacity Planning

Service scope

Service constraints
The service is primarily delivered remotely and is dependent on access to relevant service, platform and delivery teams, documentation and performance data. On-site engagement can be provided by agreement where required. Responsibility for operational decisions and remediation remains with the client.

User support

Email or online ticketing support
No
Phone support
No
Web chat support
No
Support levels
This service does not provide formal support levels or tiered support models. Support is delivered through agreed engagement periods via scheduled meetings, workshops and written outputs. The service does not include a technical account manager or cloud support engineer.

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
No

Architecture roles

Enterprise architect
Role level UK Rate Offshore Rate
Principal enterprise architect £1,150.00
Solution architect
Role level UK Rate Offshore Rate
Principal solution architect £1,050.00
Technical architect
Role level UK Rate Offshore Rate
Principal technical architect £1,100.00

Product and delivery roles

Business analyst
Role level UK Rate Offshore Rate
Lead business analyst £900.00
Delivery manager
Role level UK Rate Offshore Rate
Senior delivery manager £950.00

Standards and certifications

ISO/IEC 27001 certification
No
ISO 28000:2022 certification
No
ISO 9001 certification
No
Quality management systems (QMS)
Yes
CSA STAR certification
No
PCI certification
No
Cyber essentials
No
Cyber Essentials Alternative
In relation to the services you do not have a current and valid Cyber Essentials 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 certificate by one of the government approved accreditation bodies within 12 months of the date of award.
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
No

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

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
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
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

Service documents

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 g.whitehouse@glowar.co.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.