SIMODA LIMITED

Managed Infrastructure- Private Cloud Options

Simoda Cloud is a powerful private cloud solution which provides organisations with a lower cost alternative to the public cloud while delivering the flexibility and agility of the hyperscalers. Simoda Cloud Solution will also ensure your data and resources are located in the UK enabling data security & compliance.

Features

• Low-cost private cloud alternative reducing public cloud dependency
• UK based datacentres ensuring strong data sovereignty compliance
• Predictable billing model with no hidden charges
• In-built security controls protecting sensitive public sector data
• Scalable infrastructure supporting varying public-sector workloads
• Optional 24/7 dedicated support for mission-critical services
• Wraparound services delivering complete operational cloud management
• Improved cost control
• Flexible workload placement for optimised performance and security

Benefits

• Up to 40% savings supporting public-sector budget pressures
• No unexpected invoices improving financial predictability
• Enhanced data security for sensitive government operations
• Greater control reducing shared-environment security risks
• Improved carbon footprint aligning with sustainability mandates
• Reliable scalability supporting fluctuating public-service demands
• Strengthens resilience for critical national services
• Provides assured data sovereignty across UK locations
• Minimises service downtime through controlled cloud migration processes

• Education pricing available
• Free trial available

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 publicsector@simoda.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

282650570813738

Contact

Kate Hill
0114 553 3600
publicsector@simoda.co.uk

About your service

• Service categories:

  IaaS

  IaaS Storage

  • Object or Bucket
  • Block
  • File

Service scope

• Service constraints: Simoda’s IaaS and PaaS offerings are hosted on secure, resilient cloud infrastructure and require stable internet connectivity for access. Service performance depends on underlying cloud providers’ availability and capacity. Customers are responsible for managing their own applications and data within the platform, including compliance with security and governance policies. While highly scalable, custom configurations or integrations may require additional planning and lead time. Resource provisioning is subject to agreed quotas, and changes outside standard limits may incur delays. Scheduled maintenance and emergency updates will be communicated in advance to ensure minimal disruption. No on-premises hardware is included.
• System requirements: Not applicable
• Cloud deployment model: Private cloud

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Yes
• Support response times: Standard: 8am–6pm, Monday–Friday (We can extend hours to 24/7); Priority 1 response within 1 hour; Priority 2 response within 4 hours; Priority 3 response within 1 business day
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: Yes
• Online ticketing support accessibility: None or don’t know
• 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: Simoda offers flexible support tiers designed for public-sector organisations with varying operational needs.; ; Standard Support (included):; Covers email/ticketing support, monitoring, basic optimisation, security checks, and monthly reporting. Clients receive one quarterly review and dedicated access to a named technical consultant. Standard support ensures stability, compliance and smooth operation of migrated platforms.; ; Enhanced Support:; Provides 24/7 monitoring, enhanced SLAs, phone and web chat access, proactive incident management, monthly optimisation reviews and cost-management insights. This level is ideal for organisations operating critical workloads, requiring higher resilience, or wanting continuous governance support.; ; Premium Support / Fractional Cloud Leadership:; Offers strategic oversight from senior Simoda cloud specialists, including architectural governance, cloud roadmap development, long-term cost modelling, and hands-on delivery support. Clients benefit from a named Cloud Lead acting as an extension of their internal team.; ; Migration Phase Support:; Simoda provides tailored onboarding, testing, data validation, go-live support, training and early-life support to ensure a seamless transition.; ; This tiered model gives public-sector customers confidence, transparency and the ability to select a support level aligned with budget, risk and complexity.
• Support available to third parties: Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

• Getting started: We provide a comprehensive onboarding service designed to help users adopt the solution quickly and confidently. Our managed service desk team leads the onboarding process, offering clear guidance and personalised support from day one. Onsite training can be provided where required, ensuring users receive hands‑on, practical instruction tailored to their specific roles and operational needs.; ; Throughout onboarding, our team is available to answer questions, resolve issues, and ensure that users feel fully supported as they begin using the service.
• Service documentation: Yes
• Documentation formats: PDF
• End-of-contract data extraction: Simoda are flexible when it comes to organisation's preferences for data extraction. We do not charge for extraction and this can be performed in a range of formats in line with organisational preference. We will have a thorough discussion with the organisation to understand where the data is going to and any formatting requirements.
• End-of-contract process: Simoda do not charge extra for data extraction at the end of the contract. Extraction and definition of data format is included in fees with no extra cost.
• Documentation accessibility standard: WCAG 2.2 AA

Using the service

• Web browser interface: Yes
• Using the web interface: The CloudManager interface provides centralised control and visibility across multi-cloud environments. Users can: ; - Manage multiple clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP) from one dashboard, consolidating usage and cost data.; - Optimise costs by monitoring real-time spend, forecasting, and identifying unused resources. ; - Enforce governance and compliance, applying security policies and tracking audit logs. ; - Automate operations such as provisioning, scaling, backups, and patching. - Monitor performance with health checks, alerts, and anomaly detection. ; - Generate reports and analytics for usage, cost, and performance trends to support strategic decisions. ; In short, CloudManager helps organisations reduce complexity, improve efficiency, and maintain compliance while controlling costs across diverse cloud platforms
• Web interface accessibility standard: WCAG 2.2 AA
• Web interface accessibility testing: Not applicable, this is handled by a third party
• API: No
• Command line interface: Yes
• Command line interface compatibility:
  • Linux or Unix
  • Windows
• Using the command line interface: Command‑line tooling across major infrastructure stacks shares a strong common core. First, each exposes near‑complete API parity for provisioning and lifecycle tasks, enabling creation, update, deletion, and inspection of resources.; ; Second, structured output (JSON/YAML/text/table) plus client‑side querying is supported so you can filter, project, and transform data at the terminal—crucial for scripting and CI/CD. Query engines commonly use JSON selectors, and pipelines can be composed with stream processors to reshape results.; ; Third, authentication profiles allow switching identities and environments per command, with options for tokens/keys/SSO and named profiles to separate contexts. This enables safe multi‑tenant or multi‑subscription workflows without re‑logging.

Scaling

• Independence of resources: Flexibility to build out/expand as per client demand.
• Usage notifications: Yes
• Usage reporting:
  • Email
  • Other
• Other usage reporting: Telephone
• Optimising consumption: Yes
• Automatic scaling: Yes

Analytics

• Infrastructure or application metrics: Yes
• Metrics types:
  • CPU
  • Disk
  • HTTP request and response status
  • Memory
  • Network
  • Number of active instances
• Reporting types:
  • Real-time dashboards
  • Regular reports
  • Reports on request
• Resource tagging: Yes
• FOCUS resource tagging: Yes

Resellers

• Supplier type: Not a reseller

Staff security

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

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: Supplier-defined controls
• Penetration testing frequency: At least every 6 months
• Penetration testing approach: Another external penetration testing organisation
• Protecting data at rest:
  • Physical access control, complying with another standard
  • Encryption of all physical media
• Data sanitisation process: No
• Equipment disposal approach: A third-party destruction service

Backup and recovery

• What’s backed up:
  • Virtual machines (Windows and Linux)
  • Databases
  • File systems and shared drives
  • Object storage buckets and blobs
  • Application configuration and metadata
  • Logs and audit data
• Backup controls: Users define backup policies per workload, selecting sources (VMs, databases, file shares, object storage), schedules (hourly, daily, weekly), and retention periods. Policies can be applied to resource groups or individual assets, with exclusions and pre/post‑backup scripts where supported. Tiering to multiple storage classes is available for cost and compliance. Backups can be paused, resumed, or run on demand. Role‑based access control ensures only authorised users can create, edit, or delete policies. All changes are audited and visible in activity logs and reports.
• Datacentre setup:
  • Multiple datacentres with disaster recovery
  • Multiple datacentres
• Scheduling backups: Users schedule backups through a web interface
• Backup recovery: Users can recover backups themselves, for example through a web interface
• Backup and recovery: Yes
• RPO/RTO: Yes

Data-in-transit protection

• Data protection between buyer and supplier networks: Private network or public sector network
• Data protection within supplier network: IPsec or TLS VPN gateway

Availability and resilience

• Guaranteed availability: T3C guarantee 11x9s across both datacentres. Service credits are available if availability falls below 99% during a billing cycle.
• Approach to resilience: Across modern infrastructure platforms, resilience is achieved through a set of common engineering principles designed to maintain continuity during failures, disruptions, or maintenance events. A key approach is distributing workloads across multiple independent zones or nodes so that the failure of one location does not impact overall service availability. This is supported by automated health monitoring, where systems continually check the status of resources and automatically restart, migrate, or replace unhealthy components.
• Outage reporting: Email and telephone alerts, plus all affected users are notified via the Helpdesk

Identity and authentication

• User authentication needed: Yes
• User authentication:
  • Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
  • Dedicated link (for example VPN)
  • Username or password
• Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels: Role based access
• Access restriction testing frequency: At least every 6 months
• Management access authentication:
  • Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
  • Dedicated link (for example VPN)
  • Username or password
• Devices users manage the service through:
  • Dedicated device on a segregated network (providers own provision)
  • Dedicated device on a government network (for example PSN)
  • Dedicated device over multiple services or networks
  • Any device but through a bastion host (a bastion host is a server that provides access to a private network from an external network such as the internet)
  • Directly from any device which may also be used for normal business (for example web browsing or viewing external email)

Audit information for users

• Access to user activity audit information: Users receive audit information on a regular basis
• How long user audit data is stored for: User-defined
• Access to supplier activity audit information: Users receive audit information on a regular basis
• How long supplier audit data is stored for: User-defined
• 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:
  • CSA CSM version 4.0
  • ISO/IEC 27001
• Information security policies and processes: 27001

Operational security

• Configuration and change management standard: Supplier-defined controls
• Configuration and change management approach: Simoda and T3C work together to maintain the tracking of all service components throughout their lifecycle. All changes follow a defined Change Enablement process with assessment, approval, testing, deployment and post‑implementation review. Security impacts are evaluated through risk assessment, data classification and threat analysis, with high‑risk changes requiring security review. Version control and rollback processes ensure service integrity. Our approach aligns with ISO 27001 (change control, asset management), ISO 9001 (documented processes, continual improvement) and ISO 14001 (consideration of environmental impacts such as energy use and resource efficiency during change planning).
• Vulnerability management type: Undisclosed
• Vulnerability management approach: The service follows a defined vulnerability management process to identify, assess and remediate security vulnerabilities. Potential threats are assessed through a combination of automated vulnerability scanning, monitoring of system configurations, and review of changes to the service. Identified vulnerabilities are assessed for risk based on severity, exploitability and potential impact. Critical and high-risk vulnerabilities are prioritised and patched as soon as practicable, with lower-risk updates applied through scheduled maintenance windows. Information about potential threats is obtained from multiple sources, including cloud platform security advisories, software vendor notifications, vulnerability databases and recognised security organisations.
• Protective monitoring type: Complies with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v4.0 or SSAE-18 / ISAE 3402
• Protective monitoring approach: Our protective monitoring processes follow SOC 2 security and availability principles, combining automated detection with continuous operational oversight. We use centralised logging and behavioural analytics to identify anomalies, suspicious activity, and potential policy violations. All system, access, and administrative actions are captured in audit logs. Alerts are triaged 24/7, with defined escalation paths and incident‑response playbooks. Network traffic, authentication events, and configuration changes are continuously monitored. Regular reviews, threat‑intelligence updates, and vulnerability scanning help maintain assurance. All actions and responses are documented to support compliance and provide transparent audit evidence.
• Incident management type: Undisclosed
• Incident management approach: Our incident management processes follow NCSC guidance, including principles from the NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF), GPG13, and the NCSC Incident Management framework. Incidents are detected through protective monitoring, logged, and triaged by severity, with prioritisation reflecting potential impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. All actions are auditable and support continuous improvement.
• Post-quantum cryptography secure: No

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)

Separation between users

• Virtualisation technology used to keep applications and users sharing the same infrastructure apart: Yes
• Who implements virtualisation: Supplier
• Virtualisation technologies used: Other
• Other virtualisation technology used: Nutanix AHV. Simoda are also flexible with our clients if they have a virtualisation technology preference.
• How shared infrastructure is kept separate: Multi tenanted segregation with hyper convergence and user access security.

Energy efficiency

• Energy-efficient datacentres: Yes
• Description of energy efficient datacentres: Our service is designed to optimise energy efficiency by using cloud infrastructure that dynamically allocates compute, storage, and network resources based on real‑time demand. This reduces unnecessary power consumption associated with idle capacity. Underlying datacentres meet recognised energy‑efficiency standards, using technologies such as advanced cooling systems. Virtualisation, autoscaling, and continuous monitoring ensure resources are right‑sized and power use is minimised. Our operational processes include regularly reviewing utilisation and consolidating workloads.

Pricing

• Discount for educational organisations: Yes
• Free trial available: Yes
• Description of free trial: Simoda provide a testing environment in advance of any contractual commitment at no extra cost. This is generally for 30 days but can be extended based on client requirements.

Discount

• Provide your minimum discount applicable to your baseline prices: 1%

Formula for calculating price of your services

• Formula for calculating price of your services:

  Which of the core deployment models you intend to offer

  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud

  Public Cloud - Formula for calculating price of your services

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  Total Cost

  The Total Cost for a buyer's call off requirement in a Public Cloud Deployment

  =

  Baseline Pricing

  Discovery and scoping discussions will need to take place in order to determine pricing. Regardless of Public or Private cloud, each customer has varying levels of need and there are many variables on existing infrastructure. As a commercial organisation, we do not publish our pricing publicly.

  Baseline Pricing - Web link

  https://www.simoda.co.uk

  -

  Minimum Discounting

  1%

  +

  Onboarding Activity

  Onboarding costs may vary based on your specific requirements, please confirm with suppliers during the clarification process

  +

  Additional sources of cost

  Infrastructure requirements, existing infrastructure complexity, hardware costs, economic factors, size of organisation and plans for growth, geolocation

  -

  Additional sources of cost reduction

  Reduction in organisation size, localised projects, multi-year agreements, less dependence on Simoda resource.

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  Private Cloud - Formula for calculating price of your services

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  Total Cost

  The Total Cost for a buyer's call off requirement in a Private Cloud Deployment

  =

  Baseline Pricing

  Discovery and scoping discussions will need to take place in order to determine pricing. Regardless of Public or Private cloud, each customer has varying levels of need and there are many variables on existing infrastructure. As a commercial organisation, we do not publish our pricing publicly.

  -

  Minimum Discounting

  1%

  +

  Onboarding Activity

  Onboarding costs may vary based on your specific requirements, please confirm with suppliers during the clarification process

  +

  Additional sources of cost

  Infrastructure requirements, existing infrastructure complexity, hardware costs, economic factors, size of organisation and plans for growth, geolocation

  -

  Additional sources of cost reduction

  Reduction in organisation size, localised projects, multi-year agreements, less dependence on Simoda resource.

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• Total Cost: The Total Cost for a buyer's call off requirement in a Public Cloud Deployment
• Baseline Pricing: Discovery and scoping discussions will need to take place in order to determine pricing. Regardless of Public or Private cloud, each customer has varying levels of need and there are many variables on existing infrastructure. As a commercial organisation, we do not publish our pricing publicly.
• Baseline Pricing - Web link: https://www.simoda.co.uk
• Minimum Discounting: 1%
• Onboarding Activity: Onboarding costs may vary based on your specific requirements, please confirm with suppliers during the clarification process
• Additional sources of cost: Infrastructure requirements, existing infrastructure complexity, hardware costs, economic factors, size of organisation and plans for growth, geolocation
• Additional sources of cost reduction: Reduction in organisation size, localised projects, multi-year agreements, less dependence on Simoda resource.
• Total Cost: The Total Cost for a buyer's call off requirement in a Private Cloud Deployment
• Baseline Pricing: Discovery and scoping discussions will need to take place in order to determine pricing. Regardless of Public or Private cloud, each customer has varying levels of need and there are many variables on existing infrastructure. As a commercial organisation, we do not publish our pricing publicly.
• Minimum Discounting: 1%
• Onboarding Activity: Onboarding costs may vary based on your specific requirements, please confirm with suppliers during the clarification process
• Additional sources of cost: Infrastructure requirements, existing infrastructure complexity, hardware costs, economic factors, size of organisation and plans for growth, geolocation
• Additional sources of cost reduction: Reduction in organisation size, localised projects, multi-year agreements, less dependence on Simoda resource.

Mandatory certifications

• Mandatory certifications:

  Are you are bidding to offer IaaS and/or PaaS as a reseller or are you in sole control of the infrastructure

  Reseller

  Cloud service suppliers you intend to resell with evidence

  Organisation 1

  Organisation name

  Microsoft

  Website address/upload for organisation

  Upload

  Upload

  Provided

  Organisation 2

  Organisation name

  Nutanix

  Website address/upload for organisation

  Upload

  Upload

  Provided

  Organisation 3

  Organisation name

  Amazon Web Services

  Website address/upload for organisation

  Upload

  Upload

  Provided

  Organisation 4

  Organisation name

  Wasabi

  Website address/upload for organisation

  Website address

  Website address

  https://wasabi.com/partner/channel-partners?s=simoda

  ISO 9001 certification

  Provided

  ISO 27001 certification

  Provided

  ISO 20000-1 certification

  Provided

  Are you reliant on the Cloud Service Provider for some accreditations

  Yes

Cyber Essentials

• Do you have a Cyber Essentials Plus certificate?: Yes
• Cyber Essentials Plus certificate Number: 07578a37-64ba-4444-b6a8-c09c1e2db34b

Non-mandatory Standards and certifications

• ISO 28000:2022 certification: No
• Quality management systems (QMS): Yes
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: No
• Other security certifications: Yes
• Any other security certifications: ISO27001

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
    • 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
    • Activities to cascade good practice on fair working conditions throughout the supply chain
    • Offer a pay and leave entitlement to all eligible staff who become kinship carers, ideally equivalent to statutory adoption pay and leave
    • 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 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
    • 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
    • How these flow down the supply chain and are monitored Illustrative examples include reporting, site visits, audits, etc.
    • How to ensure business decisions re: price/cost, short lead times, payment timescales do not create modern slavery risks in the supply chain
    • How the supplier will work with NGOs, trade unions or other businesses to address modern slavery risk
    • Means of influencing staff, suppliers, customers, communities and/or any other appropriate stakeholders with respect to modern slavery risks relating to the contract

  • 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
    • Activities to support relevant sector related skills growth and sustainability in the contract workforce. Illustrative examples: careers talks, curriculum support, literacy support, safety talks and volunteering
    • Delivery of apprenticeships, supported internships and T Level industry placement opportunities (Level 2, 3 and 4+) in relation to the contract

  • 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

    • Understanding of the types of businesses in the market and the level of participation by new businesses, entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs, VCSEs and mutuals
    • Activities to identify opportunities to open up sub-contracts under the prime contract to a diverse range of businesses, including new businesses, entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs, VCSEs and mutuals
    • Plans for engaging a diverse range of businesses in engagement activities prior to appointing subcontractors (including activities prior to award of the main contract and during the contract term)
    • Activities that demonstrate a collaborative way to work with a diverse range of businesses as part of the supply chain
    • Advertising of supply chain opportunities openly and to ensure they are accessible to a diverse range of businesses, including advertising all subcontracting opportunities on Contracts Finder
    • 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
    • Understanding of local demographics, needs and opportunities for the co-design of the goods, services and works to be delivered under the contract
    • Methods for engaging with different parts of the community (including the education system and charities representing the community) and how communities come together to inform decisions, strategy and projects to leave a positive legacy for future generations
    • Plans for positive actions with community groups.
    • Plans to respond flexibly and adapt approaches to community engagement and initiatives
    • Collaborating with anchor institutions and community groups to make facilities available for education, training or community events

  • 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
    • Understanding of how to influence staff, suppliers, customers, communities and/or any other appropriate stakeholders through the delivery of the contract to support climate and nature protection and improvement
    • 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
    • Creation of employment opportunities particularly for those who face barriers to employment, such as prison leavers, care leavers and/or who are located in deprived areas, and for people in industries with known skills shortages or in high growth sectors
    • 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
    • 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
    • Introducing transparency to pay and reward processes
    • Offering a range of quality opportunities with routes of progression if appropriate, e.g. T Level industry placements, students supported into higher level apprenticeships.
    • Working conditions which promote an inclusive working environment and promote retention and progression
    • Other measures to provide equality of opportunity for disabled people and those with health conditions into employment, including becoming a Disability Confident employer and inclusion of supported businesses in the contract supply chain
    • Understanding of the issues affecting inequality in employment, skills and pay in 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 tackle inequality in employment, skills and pay in the contract workforce
    • Inclusive and accessible development practices, including guidance for line managers on recruiting, managing and developing people with a disability or health condition

  • 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
    • Other measures to offer development opportunities for the target cohort(s) in the contract workforce
    • Advertising, promotional and outreach activities designed to raise awareness of the offer to reach the target cohort
    • Understanding of issues relating to entering the contract workforce
    • Creation of outreach activities to create a pipeline of employees for the future contract delivery
    • 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
    • Understanding barriers to access to health and social care services or employment opportunities e.g. digital inclusion
    • Inclusive and accessible recruitment practices, development practices and retention policies that support-focused activities including those provided in the Guide for line managers on recruiting, managing and developing which support people with a disability or health condition
    • 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 publicsector@simoda.co.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.