COMPLETE QUALITY ENGINEERING LIMITED
Managed Test Services
CQE’s Managed Test Service delivers end to end, outcome-based services that create strategic value through the transformation of the testing function. Programs are configured to provide testing services that reduce overall costs whilst increasing quality with continuous improvement and innovation being at the heart of our delivery methodology.
Features
- On site, offsite and hybrid delivery
- Flexible and scalable resourcing from individuals to teams
- Apply testing best practices via ISTQB certified staff
- Focus on Quality Engineering
- Creation of test functions, teams, departments
- Business, user, functional requirements mapping and capture
- System Integration Testing
- Operational Acceptance Testing
- User Acceptance Testing
- End to End Testing
Benefits
- Expertise in test strategy, planning and execution of cloud applications
- Requirements traceability matrix for all applications
- An end-user focused approach for cloud applications
- Identification of defects earlier in the design and development processes
- Efficient testing by usage of best practice and best-of-breed tools
- Development of repeatable test plans for all applications
- Optimised functional testing for cloud applications
- Automation first approach
- Quality at speed and scale through an integrated managed service
- Rapid resource scaling
Architecture roles
Business architect
| £1,300.00 |
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| £600.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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| £1,000.00 |
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Data architect
| £800.00 |
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| £1,000.00 |
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| £1,250.00 |
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Enterprise architect
| £850.00 |
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| £1,050.00 |
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| £1,050.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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Network architect
| £600.00 |
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| £850.00 |
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| £1,050.00 |
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Security architect
| £800.00 |
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| £1,050.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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Solution architect
| £600.00 |
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| £800.00 |
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| £1,050.00 |
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| £1,050.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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Chief digital and data roles
Chief data officer
| £1,300.00 |
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Chief information security officer
| £1,600.00 |
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Chief technology officer
| £1,300.00 |
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Cyber security roles
Cyber security audit and assurance
| £1,050.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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Cyber security governance and risk management
| £700.00 |
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| £1,050.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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Cyber security monitoring
| £700.00 |
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| £1,050.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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Cyber security incident response
| £700.00 |
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| £1,050.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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Cyber security vulnerability management
| £700.00 |
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| £1,050.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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Cyber security digital forensics
| £700.00 |
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| £1,050.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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Cyber security testing
| £700.00 |
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| £1,050.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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Cyber security secure design
| £700.00 |
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| £1,050.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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Data roles
Analytics engineer
| £550.00 |
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| £800.00 |
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| £1,000.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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Data analyst
| £550.00 |
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| £800.00 |
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| £1,000.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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Data engineer
| £800.00 |
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| £1,000.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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Data ethicist
| £1,000.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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Data governance manager
| £800.00 |
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| £1,000.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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Data scientist
| £550.00 |
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| £550.00 |
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| £800.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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Machine learning engineer
| £1,050.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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Performance analyst
| £550.00 |
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| £800.00 |
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| £1,050.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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IT operations roles
Application operations engineer
| £550.00 |
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| £800.00 |
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| £1,050.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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Business relationship manager
| £800.00 |
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| £1,050.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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Change and release manager
| £550.00 |
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| £550.00 |
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| £800.00 |
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Command and control centre manager
| £550.00 |
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| £800.00 |
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| £800.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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End user computing engineer
| £550.00 |
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| £800.00 |
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| £1,050.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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IT service manager
| £550.00 |
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| £800.00 |
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| £1,050.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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Incident manager
| £800.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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Infrastructure engineer
| £550.00 |
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| £800.00 |
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| £1,050.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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Infrastructure operations engineer
| £550.00 |
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| £800.00 |
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| £1,050.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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Problem manager
| £550.00 |
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| £800.00 |
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Product and delivery roles
Business analyst
| £450.00 |
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| £550.00 |
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| £800.00 |
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| £1,050.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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Delivery manager
| £550.00 |
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| £800.00 |
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| £1,050.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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Digital portfolio manager
| £550.00 |
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| £800.00 |
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| £1,050.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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Product manager
| £550.00 |
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| £800.00 |
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| £1,050.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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Programme delivery manager
| £1,300.00 |
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Quality assurance testing (QAT) roles
Quality assurance testing (QAT) analyst
| £400.00 |
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| £550.00 |
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| £700.00 |
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| £850.00 |
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Test engineer
| £550.00 |
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| £700.00 |
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| £850.00 |
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| £950.00 |
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Test manager
| £975.00 |
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| £1,250.00 |
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Software development roles
Development operations (DevOps) engineer
| £450.00 |
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| £550.00 |
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| £750.00 |
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| £950.00 |
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| £1,100.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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Frontend developer
| £450.00 |
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| £550.00 |
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| £750.00 |
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| £950.00 |
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| £1,100.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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Software developer
| £450.00 |
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| £550.00 |
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| £750.00 |
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| £950.00 |
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| £1,050.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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User-centred design roles
Accessibility specialist
| £550.00 |
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| £700.00 |
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| £900.00 |
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| £1,050.00 |
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Content designer
| £450.00 |
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| £550.00 |
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| £700.00 |
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| £900.00 |
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| £1,050.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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Content strategist
| £1,300.00 |
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Graphic designer
| £450.00 |
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| £550.00 |
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| £700.00 |
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| £900.00 |
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| £1,100.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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Interaction designer
| £450.00 |
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| £550.00 |
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| £700.00 |
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| £900.00 |
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| £1,100.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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Service designer
| £450.00 |
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| £550.00 |
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| £700.00 |
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| £900.00 |
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| £1,100.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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Technical writer
| £700.00 |
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| £900.00 |
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User researcher
| £450.00 |
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| £550.00 |
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| £700.00 |
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| £900.00 |
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| £1,100.00 |
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| £1,300.00 |
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Non-mandatory Standards and certifications
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ISO/IEC 27001 certification
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No
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ISO 28000:2022 certification
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No
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ISO 9001 certification
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No
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Quality management systems (QMS)
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No
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CSA STAR certification
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No
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PCI certification
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No
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Cyber essentials
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Yes
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Please provide your Cyber Essentials Certificate Number
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B0784d9e-5bc1-4512-b386-5b0d03c24082
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Cyber essentials plus
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No
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Cyber Essentials Alternative
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None of the criteria
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Other security certifications
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No
Social value
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Section B - Commitment for Future: Delivery
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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
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New or retained jobs on the contract workforce in the relevant area that meet the criteria set out in MAC 1b, 1c and 1d
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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
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Plans to engage the contract workforce in deciding the most important workplace issues to address
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Ensuring new workers are informed of their right to join a trade union
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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
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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
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Activities that support an environment where staff are educated about, and feel empowered to, address their physical wellbeing
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Activities that support an environment where staff are educated about and feel empowered to report and address bullying and harassment
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Activities to cascade good practice on fair working conditions throughout the supply chain
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Offer a pay and leave entitlement to all eligible staff who become kinship carers, ideally equivalent to statutory adoption pay and leave
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Payment of more than the National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage (as appropriate) to the contract workforce
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Monitoring and reporting of gender and ethnicity pay gaps and plans to address them where necessary
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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
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Plans for an appropriate income replacement policy for staff who are required to spend time away from work to care for a sick dependent or close relative
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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
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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
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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
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Support for educational attainment relevant to the contract, including training schemes that address skills gaps and result in recognised qualifications
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Volunteering opportunities for staff
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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
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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
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How to ensure business decisions re: price/cost, short lead times, payment timescales do not create modern slavery risks in the supply chain
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How the supplier will work with NGOs, trade unions or other businesses to address modern slavery risk
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Means of influencing staff, suppliers, customers, communities and/or any other appropriate stakeholders with respect to modern slavery risks relating to the contract
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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
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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
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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)
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Understanding of local demographics, needs and opportunities for the co-design of the goods, services and works to be delivered under the contract
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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
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Plans for positive actions with community groups.
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Measures to engage users and communities and build relationships to increase community integration build trust and influence how the contract is delivered
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Plans to respond flexibly and adapt approaches to community engagement and initiatives
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Collaborating with anchor institutions and community groups to make facilities available for education, training or community events
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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.
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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
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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
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Activities to reconnect people with the environment and increase awareness of ways to protect and enhance it
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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.
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Understanding of the issues affecting the development of new skills by target cohort
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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
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Understanding of issues relating to entering the contract workforce
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Creation of outreach activities to create a pipeline of employees for the future contract delivery
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Content of the outreach activity is designed to suit the target cohort
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Advertising, promotional and outreach activities designed to raise awareness of the offer to reach the target cohort
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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.
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Understanding of issues relating to health and wellbeing, including physical and mental health, in the contract workforce
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Understanding barriers to access to health and social care services or employment opportunities e.g. digital inclusion
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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
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Actions to invest in the physical and mental health and wellbeing of the contract workforce
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