ABM INTELLIGENCE LIMITED

Altia Transcribe

Altia Transcribe provides a fast, accurate and powerful transcription from any medium, with the highest levels of security and a full evidentiary trail – saving you time and money.

Features

• Accessible via any web application
• Regulatory and security compliant
• Can be fully integrated with RMS/case management systems using API
• Highly accurate, rapid transcription
• Using the latest Microsoft Cognitive Services technology
• Multi-lingual transcription
• Human Rights (Charter) and civil liberties compliant
• Automatic speaker marking
• Real-time classification for disclosure
• Microsoft Cognitive Services AI technology

Benefits

• Undercover and human source functionality
• Full audit trail
• Comprehensive change log
• Date and time marked
• Supports and Translates a variety of languages
• Can include justification for obtaining evidence e.g. warrant reference
• Single Sign-on or Multi-Factor authentication
• Role based access
• Microsoft Cognitive services technology summarise transcript function
• Supports all audio files

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

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Framework

G-Cloud 15

Service ID

151716442426120

Contact

Paul Hardman
0330 808 8600
tenders@altiaintel.com

About your service

• Service categories:

  Applications

  Production and operations

  Service industry and public sector operations

  • Public Order and Safety
  • Police
  • Other
• Multi cloud support: Yes

Service scope

• Software add-on or extension: No
• Cloud deployment model:
  • Public cloud
  • Private cloud
• Service constraints: The software is offered as a cloud solution and there are no constraints for customers.
• System requirements:
  • Web Browser or Native Windows / MacOS Desktop Application.
  • IOS or Android Based Operating Systems for Mobile Devices

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Yes
• Support response times: An automated email is sent following the submission of a case where the user is provided with a unique case number. The case is then triaged and reviewed. Based on the priority of the call, follow-up communication will then take place between 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday. Cases raised during the weekend will be responded to on the Monday unless the service decides to take the optional out of hours support offering, in which case a response will be provided over the weekend.
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: Yes
• Online ticketing support accessibility: WCAG 2.2 AA
• 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: None to date
• Onsite support: Yes, at extra cost
• Support levels: Urgent (Severity 1): Interruption making a critical functionality inaccessible or a complete network interruption causing a severe impact on services availability in a production environment. There is no possible alternative. This is what you will expect from Alta. First Response (FRT) Time: 30 Minutes. Resolve within 4 hours. Periodic Updates every 30 Minutes. Pausable Update: Not Applicable. High (Severity 2): Critical functionality or network access interrupted, degraded or unusable, having a severe impact on services availability. No acceptable alternative is possible. FRT Time: 60 Minutes. Resolve within two Business Days. Periodic Updates every 4-hours. Pausable Update: Not Applicable. Normal (Severity 3): Non-critical function or procedure, unusable or hard to use having an operational impact, but with no direct impact on services availability. A workaround is available. FRT Time: 90 Minutes Resolved within the Next Major Release Periodic Update: Not Applicable Pausable Update, potentially within two days. Low (Severity 4): Application or personal procedure unusable, where a workaround is available, or a repair is possible; considered “feedback”. FRT Time: One business day Resolved within consideration for Future release Periodic Update: Not Applicable Pausable Update: Not Applicable Full details as part of the contract
• Support available to third parties: Yes
• AI chatbot: No

Onboarding and offboarding

• Getting started: After a first (included) onboarding session of 'Super Users', Product User Guide and Videos are available to customers (updated after each release). In application support is available through tutorials, 'getting started' or 'topic specific' videos. Live chat is also avaiable within the application itself. Release Notes explaining changes, hot-fixes, patches, and functionality published for each product update. Training can be supplied on-site at our Nottingham office, on-site at customer location, or virtually over Microsoft Teams or a like service. Altia's support helpdesk is always willing to supply advice to end-users about specific issues they may have in using the product and technical advice can be provided by senior software engineers, or if needed Cloud Solution Architects for more serious Platform-as-a-Service or Infrastructure-as-a-Service matters.
• Service documentation: Yes
• Documentation formats:
  • HTML
  • PDF
• End-of-contract data extraction: Naturally we would work hard with our customer in the hope that they would not seek to leave. However it is understood that requirements change and Altia will agree an exit strategy at the beginning of the contract, to provide our customers with reassurance regarding how any exit, for any reason would be managed. The exit strategy will contain the steps and activities to be taken that will lead to the cessation of service delivery to the customer. This will ensure the safe delivery of customer data, aligned to any specific customer requirements. The exit strategy documents the transfer and / or deletion of any data, the format in which it will be available for return to the Customer. Altia has a standard output format and transfer method and will deliver the data in an agreed flat file format on an encrypted Hard Drive which is usually provided and collected by the customer.
• End-of-contract process: Within 30 days or an agreed period following contract termination, Altia will provide any of the Customer's data held, in database dump format together with associated documentary attachments to an agreed secure location. At this point the Customer's data is deleted from the cloud platform and all / any Altia group systems. As an alternative, if necessary, it may be possible to agree a "read only" access to the system data on payment of all 3rd party hosting costs and associated service management costs incurred by Altia in maintaining access to the "read only" system.
• Documentation accessibility standard: WCAG 2.2 AA

Using the service

• Web browser interface: Yes
• Supported browsers:
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Chrome
• Application to install: Yes
• Compatible operating systems:
  • Android
  • IOS
  • Windows
• Designed for use on mobile devices: Yes
• Differences between the mobile and desktop service: Native iOS and Android applications are available for both mobile phone and tablet devices. Mobile applications (for security reasons) do not store any user data and is simply a window into the application's database, protecting the sensitive agency information, but also reducing the risk of mobile devices being called as evidence in court proceedings. By default, mobile access is restricted its 'own-user's' information, read, and write permissions their own data only, rather than agency-wide to prevent inadvertent data leakage, loss, or compromise. This can however be configured to meet a specific agency need, if explicitly requested and authorised.
• Service interface: Yes
• User support accessibility: WCAG 2.2 AA
• Description of service interface: Transcribe has a self-service administrative console for agencies to distribute Role Based Access Control, restrict/revoke access and/or access support material. Within the self-service administrative console, users can generate support tickets and/or engage with support personnel right from within the application - to ensure aid is always available, especially during mission critical moments. Self Service Log Analytics and Integrity reporting is also available through the Service Portal to ensure agencies have complete control of their integrity and ethical standards and benchmarks.
• Accessibility standards: WCAG 2.2 AA
• Accessibility testing: Altia rely on the industry standard Zendesk in application chat facility which is globally accepted and widely used for support and general inquiries within Capture
• API: No
• Customisation available: No

Scaling

• Independence of resources: Transcribe relies on auto-scaling of resources and have undertaken significant soak, load, and performance testing by independent experts to ensure 99% availability across users at peak demand.

Analytics

• Service usage metrics: Yes
• Metrics types: Altia report on Service Level Agreements on a weekly basis on availability and uptime. Also, administrators receive automated regular reports on irregularities within the system (including heightened privilege assignment) and more detailed performance, metrics, data volume and record totals can be made available on request to Altia.
• Reporting types:
  • Real-time dashboards
  • Regular reports
  • Reports on request
• Resource tagging: No
• FOCUS resource tagging: No

Resellers

• Supplier type: Not a reseller

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Conforms to BS7858:2019
• Government security clearance: Developed Vetting (DV)

Asset protection

• Knowledge of data storage and processing locations: Yes
• Data storage and processing locations: United Kingdom
• 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: ‘IT Health Check’ performed by a CHECK service provider
• Protecting data at rest: Other
• Other data at rest protection approach: Data is encrypted in transit and at rest by Microsoft Azure using Azure App Service/s using military grade encryption
• Data sanitisation process: Yes
• Equipment disposal approach: Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v4.0, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001
• Data sanitisation type: Deleted data can’t be directly accessed / Cryptographic Erasure

Data importing and exporting

• Data export approach: Transcribe allows end-users and agency representatives to prepare comprehensive disclosure packages including redacted and un-redacted document exports to ensure full disclosure, while protecting protected information or material not in the public interest for disclosure. Automatic redaction saves the expense involved in finding and retrieving documents, followed by hours of manual redaction
• Data export formats:
  • CSV
  • Other
• Other data export formats: DOCX
• Data import formats:
  • CSV
  • Other
• Other data import formats:
  • Upload of information through the Transcribe mobile user interface
  • Upload of information through the Transcribe web user interface
  • Upload of information through the Transcribe Native Desktop user interface

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)
  • IPsec or TLS VPN gateway

Availability and resilience

• Guaranteed availability: Altia will take commercially reasonable efforts to avoid Unavailable Time for Altia Services and aspire to 99.9% availability of Altia Services in each calendar year. This aspirational availability does not include Scheduled Maintenance, or any Unavailable Time caused by Customer Systems and Hardware or Third-Party Service Provider(s).
• Approach to resilience: Altia rely on Microsoft Azure who say: "Resiliency is not about avoiding failures but responding to failures. The aim is to respond to failure in a way that avoids downtime and data loss. Business continuity and data protection are critical issues for today’s organisations, and business continuity is built on the foundation of resilient systems, applications, and data. Reliability and resiliency are closely related. Reliability is defined as dependability and performing consistently well. Resiliency is defined as the ability to recover quickly. Together, these two qualities are key to a trustworthy cloud service. Despite best efforts, disasters happen; they are inevitable but mostly unpredictable, and vary in type and magnitude. There is almost never a single root cause of a major issue. Instead, there are several contributing factors, which is the reason an issue is able to circumvent various layers of mitigations/defences. There is no way to always prevent bad things from happening. All we can do is add layers and minimise gaps."
• Outage reporting: All pre-planned outages will be reported and identified as planned maintenance, emergency maintenance, or platform issues. In addition, Altia proactively contact customers if unforeseen outrages occur through automatically generated emails, SMS and/or phone call messages.

Identity and authentication

• User authentication needed: Yes
• User authentication:
  • Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
  • Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
  • Username or password
• Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels: Customers have the option to raise a support request via telephone, email or our support portal. We will always authenticate the identity of the user by validating the information within our customer portal.
• Access restriction testing frequency: At least once a year
• Management access authentication:
  • Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
  • Limited access network (for example PSN)
  • Dedicated link (for example VPN)
  • Username or password
  • Other
• Description of management access authentication: Users must first be authenticated on the Altia network (by direct connection or by VPN connection to the network). Access to the cloud platform then requires a further logon username and password to access the management portal or VM.

Audit information for users

• Access to user activity audit information: Users have access to real-time 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: At least 12 months
• How long system logs are stored for: User-defined

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: Altia has a number of inter-connected governance frameworks in place which control both how the Company operates and the manner in which it delivers its services to its customers. Altia is registered to ISO27001 by LRQA, a UKAS accredited audit body, and best practice is circulated and adopted across the group. The Company is governed by an integrated suite of information security policies. Under the top level Information Security Policy itself are second-level documents with specific focus on Acceptable Use, Asset Management, Business Continuity Management, Data Protection, Password Management, and many others.
• Software Security Code of Practice: Yes

Operational security

• Configuration and change management standard: Complies with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v4.0 or SSAE-18 / ISAE 3402
• Configuration and change management approach: Altia has documented configuration and change management policies and processes, which have been implemented, maintained and assessed in accordance with the guidance from our ISO27001 standard and which is programmatically enforced by industry standard tools including Azure DevOps. Formal configuration management activities, including record management and asset reporting, are monitored and validated constantly, and any identified discrepancies promptly escalated for investigation. All changes will be subject to the Altia processes covering technical testing, quality assurance and user testing including review for potential security related threats prior to release.
• Vulnerability management type: Complies with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v4.0 or SSAE-18 / ISAE 3402
• Vulnerability management approach: Altia has a documented vulnerability management policy and process, which have been implemented, maintained and assessed in accordance with the guidance from our current ISO27001 standards. Where technically possible, real-time updates and status reports are identified and sourced from credible vendor sources.
• Protective monitoring type: Complies with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v4.0 or SSAE-18 / ISAE 3402
• Protective monitoring approach: Altia follows best practices for its coding, application servers and databases. The Cloud Service Provider follows the best practice from the National Cyber Security Centre, The Cloud Service Provider protects it's platforms with 24x7 enhanced protective monitoring services, vulnerability scanning and assessment. Their approach to protective monitoring at minimum meets the Protective Monitoring Controls outlined in NCSC document GPG13. It includes checks against systems events (SIEM) and network traffic analysis, including time sources, cross-boundary traffic, suspicious activities at a boundary, network connections and status of backups. Any alerts generated are logged and investigated 24x7.
• Incident management type: Complies with a recognised standard, for example, CSA CCM v4.0 or ISO/IEC 27035:2011 or SSAE-18 / ISAE 3402
• Incident management approach: Altia has a documented incident management policy and process, which have been implemented, maintained and assessed in accordance with the guidance from the current ISO27001 standard. This activity is responsible for the progression of issues identified by Altia personnel, and incidents identified and reported to Altia by its customers and partners. All incidents are promptly reported into a central ticketing system, which ensures that each is promptly assigned to an appropriate resource, and its progress tracked (and escalated, as required) to resolution.
• Post-quantum cryptography secure: Yes

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: 1%
• 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: 6%

Non-mandatory Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: Yes
• Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001: LRQA Ltd
• ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date: Tuesday 1 October 2024
• What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover: Our Statement of Applicability has 1 exclusion: Outsourced Development, as all developments are completed in-house.
• ISO 28000:2022 certification: No
• ISO 9001 certification: No
• Quality management systems (QMS): Yes
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: No
• Cyber essentials: Yes
• Please provide your Cyber Essentials Certificate Number: 999c2461-bc3c-47e1-8990-ba14dce44414
• 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

• 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
    • 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
    • Ensuring new workers are informed of their right to join a trade union
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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

  • 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

  • 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

    • 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
    • Plans for positive actions with community groups.

  • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • Working conditions which promote an inclusive working environment and promote retention and progression

  • 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
    • 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

  • 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

• 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 tenders@altiaintel.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.