4C STRATEGIES LIMITED
Cloud Infrastructure Business Case Consultancy
Our independent Cloud Infrastructure Business Case Consultancy service is for organisations that require an experienced consultant to help with the transition to cloud services. Our Business Cases include the case for change and a comprehensive options analysis from a financial and non-financial perspective
Features
- Independent, we are a totally independent and impartial ICT consultancy
- Sector focused approach (NHS, Education, Local Government, Blue Light, Charity)
- Covers telephony, UC, contact centre, collaboration, messaging, audio visual, networking
- Covers IaaS, SaaS and PaaS Wi-Fi, video-conferencing, servers and storage
- Technically focused, we understand cloud services
- Innovative, we understand how to use features for business benefit
- User consultation, we can consult with users as required
- Infrastructure audits, we can audit existing technology infrastructures
- Options analysis, both financial and non-financial
- Deliverables are professional and comprehensive documents
Benefits
- Our service minimises project timescales
- Our service allows internal resources to concentrate on business-as-usual
- Our service allows you to benefit from our previous experiences
- Our service helps to achieve best value on procurements
- Our service minimises project risks
- Our service delivers high quality project documentation
- Our service helps to deliver digital transformation and cloud enablement
- Our service helps to minimise the risk of supplier challenges
- Our service provides a project audit trail
- Our service helps to educate internal resources
Pricing
- Education pricing available
Service documents
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Framework
G-Cloud 15
Service ID
3 1 3 6 9 3 1 0 0 6 7 1 7 0 0
Contact
4C STRATEGIES LIMITED
Paul Ridge
Telephone: 01858 438938
Email: office@4c.co.uk
About your service
- Service categories
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Cloud Support Services
Cloud Migration Planning
- Capability analysis
- Enterprise architecture
- Cloud gap assessment
- Architecture options analysis
- Delivery Road-mapping
- Other
Service scope
- Service constraints
- N/A
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Yes
- Support response times
- We respond to emails within 1 day
- User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- No
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
- Web chat support
- No
- Support levels
- We allocate a Lead Consultant to each assignment. The Lead Consultant is contactable via phone or email Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm.
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Not a reseller
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Other security clearance
- Government security clearance
- Security Clearance (SC)
Pricing
- Discount for educational organisations
- Yes
Architecture roles
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Business architect | £1,150.00 | |
| Lead business architect | £1,350.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Data architect | £850.00 | |
| Senior data architect | £950.00 | |
| Chief data architect | £1,150.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Enterprise architect | £850.00 | |
| Senior enterprise architect | £950.00 | |
| Lead enterprise architect | £1,150.00 | |
| Principal enterprise architect | £1,350.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Associate network architect | £950.00 | |
| Network architect | £1,150.00 | |
| Lead network architect | £1,350.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Security architect | £950.00 | |
| Lead security architect | £1,150.00 | |
| Principal security architect | £1,350.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Senior solution architect | £950.00 | |
| Lead solution architect | £1,150.00 | |
| Principal solution architect | £1,350.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Senior technical architect | £950.00 | |
| Lead technical architect | £1,150.00 | |
| Principal technical architect | £1,350.00 |
Chief digital and data roles
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Chief information security officer | £1,350.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Chief technology officer | £1,350.00 |
Cyber security roles
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Lead cyber security audit and assurance | £1,150.00 | |
| Principal cyber security audit and assurance | £1,350.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Lead cyber security governance and risk manager | £1,150.00 | |
| Principal cyber security governance and risk manager | £1,350.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Lead cyber security monitoring | £1,150.00 | |
| Principal cyber security monitoring | £1,350.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Lead cyber security incident response | £1,150.00 | |
| Principal cyber security incident response | £1,350.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Lead cyber security vulnerability management | £1,150.00 | |
| Principal cyber security vulnerability management | £1,350.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Lead cyber security digital forensics | £1,150.00 | |
| Principal cyber security digital forensics | £1,350.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Lead cyber security penetration testing | £1,150.00 | |
| Principal cyber security testing | £1,350.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Lead cyber security secure systems architecture and design | £1,150.00 | |
| Principal cyber security secure systems architecture and design | £1,350.00 |
Product and delivery roles
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Trainee business analyst | £400.00 | |
| Junior business analyst | £600.00 | |
| Business analyst | £800.00 | |
| Senior business analyst | £950.00 | |
| Lead business analyst | £1,150.00 | |
| Head of business analysis | £1,350.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Delivery manager | £850.00 | |
| Senior delivery manager | £950.00 | |
| Head of (Agile) delivery management | £1,150.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Programme delivery manager | £1,150.00 |
Non-mandatory Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
- URS
- ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
- Friday 4 July 2025
- What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
- N/A
- ISO 28000:2022 certification
- No
- ISO 9001 certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO 9001 certification
- URS
- ISO 9001 accreditation date
- Tuesday 25 November 2025
- What the ISO 9001 doesn’t cover
- N/A
- Quality management systems (QMS)
- Yes
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Cyber essentials
- Yes
- Please provide your Cyber Essentials Certificate Number
- 1e5e035e-0811-468a-b5c8-0e50b6412e2a
- Cyber essentials plus
- Yes
- Please provide your Cyber Essentials Plus Certificate Number
- 2f4708c2-f8f1-407f-a8d6-2b467ec20a94
- Other security certifications
- No
Social value
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
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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
- 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
- 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
- Measures to involve local stakeholders and/or users in design (e.g. in the design of services, systems, products or buildings)
- Plans for positive actions with community groups.
- Measures for making facilities used in the delivery of the contract available for community groups, education or training
- Measures to engage users and communities and build relationships to increase community integration build trust and influence how the contract is delivered
- 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
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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.
- 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
- 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
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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 6: Employment and training: For those who face barriers to employment
- 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
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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.
- Understanding of issues relating to entering the contract workforce
- Creation of outreach activities to create a pipeline of employees for the future contract delivery
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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.
- 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
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Service documents
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