SIRIUS ANALYSIS LIMITED
Operational Assessment
Sirius Analysis Limited’s Operational Assessment Service is designed to support a client's journey from cloud design through to in-service operation. We ensure the delivered solution is accurately represented by requirements, robustly assured during delivery, and the client is expertly supported during acceptance
Features
- Bespoke Integration
- Thorough analysis of complex business processes
- Cloud services integrated into live with minimal business impact
- Verification & Validation against business needs
- Rigorous testing of cloud solution ensures verification against user requirements
- Acceptance Testing
- Comprehensive assessment of solution prior to release into live service
- Ensures delivered cloud solution meets business functional and performance standards
- Modelling and Development, including AI Workflows and AIOps
- AI Assessment and Assurance
Benefits
- Robustly assessed, assured, fit for purpose cloud solution
- Seamlessly integrated to support live business services
- Continual review of cloud solution from design to in-service operation
- Improved risk mitigation
- Early issue identification and resolution minimising live service impact
- Subject Matter Expertise support during acceptance activity
- Expert advice and guidance ensures Value for Money (VfM)
- Delivery of an effective cloud solution
- Optimisation of services through continuous improvement
Pricing
£565.00 to £1,540.00 a unit a day
Service documents
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Framework
G-Cloud 14
Service ID
1 6 3 4 3 3 1 4 4 7 0 4 1 4 3
Contact
SIRIUS ANALYSIS LIMITED
Darrell Hannam
Telephone: 07889 337717
Email: tenders@sirius-analysis.co.uk
Planning
- Planning service
- No
Training
- Training service provided
- No
Setup and migration
- Setup or migration service available
- No
Quality assurance and performance testing
- Quality assurance and performance testing service
- Yes
- How the quality assurance and performance testing works
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The Operational Assessment Service is designed to fully support clients through cloud service delivery to live service operation.
We support controlled transition to live service by ensuring migration impact is understood and communicated with stakeholders throughout the process, and that downtime is limited.
We support complex integration activity, ensuring data assurance and availability is maintained throughout transition, and new infrastructure is seamlessly integrated and supported.
Our service ensures that cloud solution is fully validated against defined operational needs and expectations, and that the solution is verified to deliver the requirements.
We support users through acceptance activity, ensuring the solution fully meets both functional and performance standards.
Security testing
- Security services
- No
Ongoing support
- Ongoing support service
- No
Service scope
- Service constraints
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Services are delivered Monday to Friday, excluding national holidays.
Service-specific constraints, dependencies and assumptions, together with Service & Performance Levels, will be detailed in our proposal and agreed on a case-by-case basis before contract start.
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- No
- Phone support
- No
- Web chat support
- No
- Support levels
- We provide a technical Project Manager who brings additional domain knowledge and support to the delivery team, a route for communication and a first point for the buyer. They ensure administrative, financial and contractual queries are actioned and resolved. They monitor performance, seek feedback and provide assurance that work is progressing as planned and is concluded to the customer’s satisfaction.
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Not a reseller
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Conforms to BS7858:2019
- Government security clearance
- Up to Developed Vetting (DV)
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- No
- ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Cyber essentials
- Yes
- Cyber essentials plus
- Yes
- Other security certifications
- No
Social Value
- Social Value
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Social Value
- Fighting climate change
- Covid-19 recovery
- Tackling economic inequality
- Equal opportunity
- Wellbeing
Fighting climate change
Sirius will deliver against this Social Value theme throughout our G-Cloud service provision, undertaking activities that deliver, promote and uphold effective stewardship of the environment.
Sirius mitigates the environmental impacts from the delivery of G-Cloud services through the following measures:
We use strategically located smaller offices, scaled for flexible working, which enables us to operate with a considerably smaller carbon footprint. We are committed to achieving net zero emissions by 2050, reducing our Greenhouse Gases through a Carbon Reduction plan.
In our offices we have increased the purchase of sustainable goods, including office furniture, stationary, and avoid single use plastics. We use local contractors wherever possible. We actively encourage a reduction in printed material, waste recycling and reduced energy and water consumption to minimise wastage.
Where possible, we minimise business travel, holding meetings online and working remotely through secure digitised systems, using technology and effective diary management to reduce the need to travel. Where staff do need to travel, we encourage the use of public rather than private transport, car sharing, and lower-carbon vehicles. We operate a cycle-to-work policy and have company e-bikes available for loan to staff. We have encouraged staff to convert to electric cars through launching a subsidised leasing scheme.
We promote awareness amongst our staff and supply chain to engage in environmentally friendly practices through our published environmental Policy and incorporating environmental, enhancement and protection initiatives across all corporate policy. We will continue to encourage staff to engage in wildlife and green space schemes that support environmental objectives through providing volunteer days. We will continue to provide sponsorship to local community events that support green space and environmental protection and improvement initiatives.Covid-19 recovery
While recovery from COVID-19 may be virtually complete and no longer at the forefront of our operational priorities, Sirius is conscious that our staff, their families, and our clients and communities may still be recovering from the longer term economic effects or health impacts.
Sirius will deliver against this Social Value theme throughout our G-Cloud service provision, ensuring lessons learned following COVID-19 continue to be used in our working practices. For example, we continue to be vigilant and observe the comprehensive health and hygiene protocols implemented during the COVID-19 restrictions, reducing the likelihood of spread of any illness among staff and clients. We take great care of the mental health of our staff, promoting wellbeing through awareness and the supportive and preventative work of our Mental Health First Aiders. We continue to support remote working, to maximise the benefits our staff derive from flexible working, the employment opportunities it offers from attracting a wider range of employees, and the environmental benefits from reduced travelling and operating smaller offices.
As part of company equality and wellbeing activities, we actively support staff with long term illness, including Long Covid. This includes provision for additional medical appointments, and adjusting working hours and practices where needed, for both staff directly, and to support their caring responsibilities.Tackling economic inequality
Sirius will deliver against this Social Value theme throughout our G-Cloud service provision, creating new opportunities for employment, training and education while expanding and diversifying our business, and increasing the resilience and capacity of our supply chain.
As a new, rapidly growing business, we actively create employment and training opportunities. We seek to employ service leavers and veterans, valuing the special experience and skills they bring. Together with running a STEM returners programme, we offer a large number of part-time roles, to encourage those returning to work from career breaks and those caring for young families or dependants, who might otherwise struggle with full-time roles.
To find future system engineers, operational analysts, data science and digital specialists, we specifically engage with Portsmouth University to recruit new Maths and Physics graduates. This has the added benefit of supporting the local economy which includes areas amongst the most deprived 10% in the country.
Our junior staff are supported through a Professional Development programme which includes accredited training, on the job training and mentoring and digital skills learning and development, leading to professional qualifications.
We continuously increase our supply chain resilience and capacity as we build and expand our service offerings and the number and diversity of business we subcontract. By treating suppliers fairly, working collaboratively and sharing our knowledge and use of best practice technology, processes and methodologies, we encourage smaller business’ ability to grow and develop themselves. Through collaborations with academia and smaller organisations we provide access to niche, specialist and emerging technologies for our clients, while advocating for those organisations, and enable them to overcome entry barriers and work on Government contracts.
The fair and equitable working practices that govern our business are flowed down through our supply chain, promoting additional social value at all levels.Equal opportunity
Sirius will deliver against this Social Value theme throughout our G-Cloud service provision, Identifying and tackling inequality in employment, skills and pay within our workforce, supporting in-work progression and staff development for those from disadvantaged or minority groups.
We promote equal opportunity in our workforce through a People Strategy, Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion (DEI) Strategy, and Equal Opportunities Recruitment and Selection Policies. Our Reservist Policy offers additional support to our military staff and families to support equal opportunity from recruitment and throughout career progression.
Our DEI team investigates how we can encourage diversity, equality and inclusivity within the business and the sectors in which we work. All staff regardless of their background and beliefs are encouraged to participate in this initiative.
We champion equal opportunity by:
• Striving to achieve a diverse workforce, employing people from all walks of life, with staff who feel they are accepted for who they are.
• Providing equality of recruitment, work, promotion, training, support, pay and benefit initiatives, ensuring no-one is discriminated against, including ot just being open to candidates from any background, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation, and by actively trying to attract a diverse mix of candidates from disadvantaged and minority groups.
• Training, educating and mentoring to provide learning opportunities for all staff.
• Maintaining a proactive strategy and monitoring the risks of Modern Slavery in the workplace.
Our active DE&I programme, encourages all staff to consider and aim to understand different perspectives, customs and norms. The effectiveness of these actions is evidenced by the diversity and stability of our workforce which is over 35% female, including over 40% of the Senior Leadership Team. We routinely develop and implement special working measures for individuals with accessibility needs.Wellbeing
As an SME, we are acutely aware that our people are our greatest asset and their wellbeing is critical to our success. We believe a healthy, motivated, and capable workforce delivers increased client satisfaction. Mental and physical health and wellbeing is paramount and the foundation of our ‘people-first’ culture, advocated in words and actions throughout the company.
We are passionate about supporting and developing inclusion, mental health awareness, and wellbeing best practice and effective support systems across the company, while influencing our suppliers to be equally proactive in their approaches.
Recognising that both we, and our clients, benefit from having staff who are well, secure, happy and content in their workplace, we promote a healthy workplace and encourage healthy lifestyles. We aim to improve staff resilience, reduce illness, stress, absence or underperformance, increase positivity and productivity, as these all improve the likelihood of successful outcomes for our clients.
Our Mental Health First Aiders provide support and advice. Trained and experienced, they are available for staff to speak to in confidence and can provide group and 1-2-1 support. Building on the success of internal programme of monthly ‘drop-in’ surgeries, we will continue to implement activities across all G-Cloud contracts, including:
• Wellbeing awareness workshops:
• Adjusted work schedules for staff with additional needs, incorporating use of accessible tools and systems.
• Signposting to wellbeing resources, including 24/7 access to qualified therapists and comprehensive mental health advice through our Employee Assistance Programme, YuLife, and access to mental health support through our Vitality private health scheme.
• Implementing the six standards in the Mental Health at Work commitment.
• Becoming a Disability Confident Employer.
• Celebrating National Inclusion Week and World Mental Health Day.
• Following the recommendations in the Government’s Voluntary Reporting Framework.
Pricing
- Price
- £565.00 to £1,540.00 a unit a day
- Discount for educational organisations
- No
Service documents
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