Accenture (UK) Limited

Accenture Private Cloud Services

Accenture Private Cloud is an infrastructure asset that is fully managed, secure, reliable. It is designed to support Accenture's Business Services in operating their IT infrastructure according to their specific requirements while strictly adhering to Accenture's standards and client data protection. Provides virtual private, dedicated private, and hybrid cloud solutions.

Features

• Consumption based billing
• Multiple data centers for Site Loss or Disaster Recovery planning
• Audit and Compliance services
• Flexibility to provide specific hardware/appliance integration
• Policy driven security services built into the standard service
• Pre-built core services for server account management, patching, etc
• Basic Network, Security and Monitoring built into the standard service
• Operational Data Recovery capabilities
• Tiered storage capabilities for flexible storage presentation including all-flash solutions
• Hybrid Cloud capabilities to tie into major public cloud providers

Benefits

• Manage complex workload integrations
• Accenture's baseline security services for every deployed server
• Flexibility for the toughest I/O intensive application requirements'
• Software Defined data center allows for flexibility in the design

£95 to £2,240 a unit a day

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

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Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

376090646442280

Contact

Sarita Sudera
+44 20 3335 4305
UK.TenderMonitoring@accenture.com

Service scope

• Service constraints: Accenture manages the overall available capacity based on existing requirements to control infrastructure spend within the cloud service. ; Our compliance programs require software and operating system vulnerability remediation as part of the service.; Commercial contract will be leverage for the inclusion of a TAM.
• System requirements:
  • OS licenses included in the service
  • Database and application licenses must be supplied by the client
  • Some Accenture Services are included in the published rate card.
  • Vendor maintenance agreements are held and managed by Accenture
  • The standard support model is global.
  • Virtual Private Cloud is only available in pre-defined locations
  • Data hosting restrictions should be known prior to enabling service

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Email or online ticketing
• Support response times: Incident response is targeted at 30 minutes 24x7.
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: Yes
• Online ticketing support accessibility: WCAG 2.1 AA or EN 301 549
• Phone support: Yes
• Phone support availability: 24 hours, 7 days a week
• Web chat support: Web chat
• Web chat support availability: 24 hours, 7 days a week
• Web chat support accessibility standard: WCAG 2.1 AA or EN 301 549
• Web chat accessibility testing: ServiceNow products are tested with the following assistive technologies: JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver. Further, Accenture can develop and deploy chatbots powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) that can provide online web chat support (requirements dependent) at an additional cost. Accenture also utilise Microsoft Teams which can be another means of support but is reliant upon the customer also using a Microsoft Teams solution.
• Onsite support: Yes, at extra cost
• Support levels: Accenture Managed services can be provisioned at varying levels on top of the Accenture Private Cloud Service. This could include a full business process outsourcing engagement, application support, or just the infrastructure services
• Support available to third parties: Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

• Getting started: Accenture will provide the needed introductions to the APC service by conducting introductory training sessions with designated personnel. This will be conducted virtually and provided guidance for additional supporting documentation online.
• Service documentation: Yes
• Documentation formats: HTML
• End-of-contract data extraction: Accenture has a comprehensive cloud migration service where we can assist in migrating the data under contract to a secondary location.
• End-of-contract process: The Accenture Private Cloud service includes a managed operating system for the client. This would include break/fix, security patching, vulnerability management. Accenture has the ability to provide additional security, application or business processing services on top of the Accenture Private Cloud Service for additional costs.

Using the service

• Web browser interface: Yes
• Using the web interface: The web interface allows for brokering your cloud services. Our web interface allows for you to integrate both with the Accenture Private Cloud as well as several other public cloud providers. The interface functionality includes some basic server related workflows, cloud spend management, and other configuration management functions.
• Web interface accessibility standard: None or don’t know
• How the web interface is accessible: The Web interface is a role based access solution. Clients are configured and upon approved access control lists are granted access to the client portfolio established in our cloud service.
• Web interface accessibility testing: A standard service readiness test is performance per release to ensure service is functional with each sprint release.
• API: No
• Command line interface: No

Scaling

• Scaling available: No
• Independence of resources: We operate in an N+1 capacity model to ensure available capacity to support the provisioned workloads within the system. Along with this, we restrict over provisioning and have specific proactive thresholds set in our monitoring service to capture reorder points based on demand.
• Usage notifications: Yes
• Usage reporting: Email

Analytics

• Infrastructure or application metrics: Yes
• Metrics types:
  • CPU
  • Disk
  • Memory
• Reporting types: Real-time dashboards

Resellers

• Supplier type: Not a reseller

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Other security clearance
• Government security clearance: Up to Developed Vetting (DV)

Asset protection

• Knowledge of data storage and processing locations: Yes
• Data storage and processing locations:
  • United Kingdom
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
• User control over data storage and processing locations: Yes
• Datacentre security standards: Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 3.0)
• Penetration testing frequency: At least once a year
• Penetration testing approach: Another external penetration testing organisation
• Protecting data at rest:
  • Physical access control, complying with CSA CCM v3.0
  • Physical access control, complying with SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
  • Physical access control, complying with another standard
  • Encryption of all physical media
• Data sanitisation process: Yes
• Data sanitisation type:
  • Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
  • Deleted data can’t be directly accessed
  • Hardware containing data is completely destroyed
• Equipment disposal approach: A third-party destruction service

Backup and recovery

• Backup and recovery: Yes
• What’s backed up:
  • Files
  • Virtual Machines
  • Databases
  • Archives
• Backup controls: Standard schedules are pre-defined at server deployment based on workload type, and then adhoc requests are handled via ticket process to adjust the schedule.
• Datacentre setup: Multiple datacentres with disaster recovery
• Scheduling backups: Users contact the support team to schedule backups
• Backup recovery: Users contact the support team

Data-in-transit protection

• Data protection between buyer and supplier networks:
  • Private network or public sector network
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
• Data protection within supplier network:
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • IPsec or TLS VPN gateway

Availability and resilience

• Guaranteed availability: The infrastructure is architected to achieve a 99.9% availability target. This is measured and reported on monthly. Along with this availability target, Accenture has pre-defined incident response and resolution targets. These all can be contracted.
• Approach to resilience: Available on request
• Outage reporting: Email alerts

Identity and authentication

• User authentication:
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
  • Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google apps)
  • Dedicated link (for example VPN)
  • Username or password
• Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels: Access is restricted to the management interfaces both by network firewalls and role based restrictions.
• Access restriction testing frequency: At least every 6 months
• Management access authentication:
  • 2-factor authentication
  • 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 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)

Audit information for users

• Access to user activity audit information: Users contact the support team to get audit information
• How long user audit data is stored for: Between 1 month and 6 months
• Access to supplier activity audit information: Users contact the support team to get audit information
• How long supplier audit data is stored for: Between 1 month and 6 months
• How long system logs are stored for: Between 1 month and 6 months

Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: Yes
• Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001: BSI
• ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date: 20/12/2023
• What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover: N/A
• ISO 28000:2007 certification: No
• CSA STAR certification: Yes
• CSA STAR accreditation date: 29/03/2023
• CSA STAR certification level: Level 3: CSA STAR Certification
• What the CSA STAR doesn’t cover: N/A
• PCI certification: No
• Cyber essentials: Yes
• Cyber essentials plus: Yes
• Other security certifications: Yes
• Any other security certifications: CERT UVDB Silver

Security governance

• Named board-level person responsible for service security: Yes
• Security governance certified: Yes
• Security governance standards: ISO/IEC 27001
• Information security policies and processes: Accenture aligns the security for the Private Cloud Service to the global policies of the organisation. Included within those policies are specific guidelines for identifying, reporting, and tracking security related tasks. This is then reviewed by an internal audit and compliance team, and audited by a third party annually.

Operational security

• Configuration and change management standard: Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
• Configuration and change management approach: The ITIL based change management processes and procedures are managed at the infrastructure level and recommended to the application and business users leveraging the service. This process ensures specific reviews in the process for technical, business and service approvals throughout the process culminating in a change approval board approval.
• Vulnerability management type: Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
• Vulnerability management approach: Accenture service leverages third party scanning tools to assist in identifying vulnerabilities within the environment. Scans are scheduled based on specific targeted services and results assessed based on risk and impact. Based on the assessment, the vulnerabilities identified are classified and scheduled for remediation depending on the risk.
• Protective monitoring type: Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
• Protective monitoring approach: Accenture monitors its network to look for potential risk and vulnerabilities through our Cyber Incident Response Team (CIRT) who our Security Operations Centre (SOC), which performs real-time 24x7 monitoring to identify security events, suspicious activities and unsafe practices. We continually perform threat-hunting assessments of our systems and our Security Information and Event Management SIEM) system provides comprehensive threat detection and management infrastructure to identify potential security risks and threats. When a potential compromise is identified we will respond as soon as possible and within contracted SLAs to contain the compromise, inform required parties and restore services.
• Incident management type: Conforms to a recognised standard, for example, CSA CCM v3.0 or ISO/IEC 27035:2011 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
• Incident management approach: Incident management is a process defined to ensure service is restored to a predefined standard of service. This is managed with the monitoring tools deployed as part of the service and leverages inputs from both Users as well as technology to maintain the standard service. Based on the severity of the incident, incident reports are provided with root cause analysis to the identified stakeholders

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 v3.0)

Separation between users

• Virtualisation technology used to keep applications and users sharing the same infrastructure apart: Yes
• Who implements virtualisation: Supplier
• Virtualisation technologies used: VMware
• How shared infrastructure is kept separate: Different organisations are kept apart from the time the enter our datacenters through the definition of their interfaces on our external FWs. Once we bring them in, a Software Defined Data Center is provisioned to firewall off each client and each server within the client deployment. As for the management, no client traffic/users are able to access the management layer of the service.

Energy efficiency

• Energy-efficient datacentres: Yes
• Description of energy efficient datacentres: Accenture has several global programs focused on energy conservation for the company. Along with these programs within our datacentres, we leverage a standard refresh cycle on hardware within to ensure the latest and greatest energy savings is applied, while recycling old hard through approved vendors. As we focus in on hardware specific decisions, the business requirements drive hardware selection, but specific chip sets are selected based on overall power efficiency. This is built into our approval processes for hardware selection. For the datacentre space as well, periodic reviews are conducted to ensure optimal cooling is in place and hot spots are addressed through approved datacentre solutions.

Social Value

• Social Value:

  Social Value

  • Fighting climate change
  • Covid-19 recovery
  • Tackling economic inequality
  • Equal opportunity
  • Wellbeing

  Fighting climate change

  Accenture’s environmental strategy supported by our ISO 14001 certification, focuses on three areas to fight Climate Change: running efficient operations that reduce emissions and other impacts; enabling client and supplier sustainability; engaging and influencing our people, leaders, partners, and other stakeholders as throughout targeted activities and initiatives. Influence environmental protection and improvement: ; • Accenture is working to achieve net zero emissions by 2025. We are proud to be largest professional services company aligned to Science Based Targets initiative. ; • Engagement to raise awareness: We will use Carbon Disclosure Project’s (CDP) supply chain tools to promote engagement and sustainable business practices with our suppliers. CDP methods are recognised globally as setting the industry standard for sustainability of supply chains. ; • Co-design/creation: Our ‘Responsible by Design’ framework will guide our work so the solutions we create for each buyer will include environmental protection and will reduce negative effects whilst maximising benefits. ; Additional environmental benefits: ; • Training and education: Our delivery nominated Sustainability Coaches will ensure we are focusing on environmental protection and improvement throughout our work. We will use our Sustainability Quotient (SQ) training to develop our skills and adopt climate smart behaviours. ; • Partnering/collaborating with the community: Engagement with communities throughout call offs will support the delivery of environmental objectives. We will improve our environmental outcomes in call offs through buying locally and ethically, sponsoring local environmental protection events, offering training and apprenticeship schemes, and building environmentally friendly services and products. We will leverage partnerships with bodies such as SciStarter to influence the public to contribute to climate projects. Reporting: ; • We use regular surveys and measurement to identify and implement opportunities to support the environment and tackle climate change. To manage our social value commitments at call offs, we will use www.SocialValuePortal.com, to provide transparent 3rd party verified reporting.

  Covid-19 recovery

  One of Accenture’s core values is Stewardship, which includes helping improve the communities in which we live and work. As such, we are committed to helping local communities to manage and recover from the impact of COVID-19. We are committed to ensuring that the G Cloud 13 contract supports local organisations and communities to manage and recover from the impacts of COVID-19. We will do this by: ; • Supporting local businesses: We will work with small/growing organisations to help optimise and grow their businesses. We will provide access to Accenture Leadership through hosting online workshops providing business mentorship opportunities to SMEs. ; • Investing in people to create opportunity: Accenture will support individuals to maximize their employability through training, apprenticeship, work placements, mentorships, and other initiatives where applicable at call-offs. Our initiatives will develop new skills that can keep them employed, upskilled and resilient in an uncertain job market. Our approach focuses on engaging with those who have been hit hardest by the pandemic in terms of employment opportunities including NEET and young people to enable them to get upskilled. ; • Rebuilding local communities: At call offs, we will invest in supporting local communities to recover from the less tangible effects of COVID-19. Mental health and isolation have become increasingly pressing issues during the pandemic particularly among the socially vulnerable. ; We are committed to supporting local and national charities to rebuild connections between people in the community. Our staff volunteer through our charity network in Leeds, Newcastle and London to create volunteering opportunities for all. Reporting: We use regular surveys and measurement to identify and implement opportunities to support Covid-19 recovery. To manage our social value commitments at call offs, we will use www.SocialValuePortal.com, a leader in social value contract management who will provide transparent 3rd party verified reporting.

  Tackling economic inequality

  Accenture’s commitment in the UK extends beyond the Equality Act’s protected characteristics to include ensuring that individuals from lower socio-economic backgrounds. Entrepreneurship, growth, and business creation: Our established Accenture programmes support social mobility across a range of activities including outreach, work experience, recruitment, progression, and advocacy. ; • Employment: We will continue to offer our world class apprenticeship and graduate programme which provides opportunities for young unemployed people and creates a path to long term employment. The aim of Accenture’s apprenticeship and graduate programmes is to expand our talent pool by finding, training, and developing young people for a career in technology. This is part of our broader commitment to creating entry level opportunities in the technology and digital sectors for those facing greater barriers to entry. ; • Diverse supply chains: We remain dedicated to help develop small, medium and diverse suppliers through our Diverse Supplier Development Programme, Procurement Plus. By standardising and simplifying how we do things, we lower the barrier to entry for diverse SMEs to our supply chain. ; • Making our payments in accordance with the Prompt Payment Code and regularly reporting on the % of payments within 30/60 days. ; • Innovation and disruptive technologies: Accenture’s Innovation Programme - started in 2014, the programme will be used to leverage insights from within the Accenture organisation to resolve our clients’ problems. Our outreach programmes focus on areas of high deprivation across the UK; Skills to Succeed and Accenture's Digital Skills platform have upskilled 573,000 people across various social and economic circumstances, and we have reached over 10,000 young people nationallyTo manage our social value commitments at call offs, we will use www.SocialValuePortal.com, a leader in social value contract management who will provide transparent 3rd party verified reporting.

  Equal opportunity

  Accenture is committed to accelerating equality and creating a work environment where everyone belongs. Our commitment starts at the top with our board and extends across the company. ; • Identifying and tackling inequality in employment, skills and pay: Inclusive and accessible recruitment practices: we provide opportunities appropriate to individuals from different backgrounds and at different stages in their career. We have partnered with a diversity software programme to drive a non-biased recruitment processes removing the need for human screening during the initial candidate sift. ; • We provide a range of learning and employment routes to tackle inequality and give opportunities to young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, including through our Technology Apprenticeship Programme and Movement to Work Scheme. ; • Reducing Gender Pay Gap: we are working towards eliminating gender-based pay disparity.; • Quarterly ethics/ unconscious bias training: all our employees must complete this training. We had global compliance of 99% in 2020. Supporting in-work progression including for those from disadvantaged/ minority groups Training and mentoring opportunities to disadvantaged and under-represented groups is a powerful way to raise their career aspirations and fulfil their potential.; • Our Networks of champions and allies can provide support in development and tailored mentoring for career progression, e.g., our South Asian network recently ran a Women’s Leadership Development workshop covering topics such as ‘Career Progression’. ; • ‘Accent On’ initiatives (such as gender/family/enablement/ethnicity) promote sharing knowledge and understanding to create cohesive and supportive diverse teams where everyone belongs and feels motivated. ; • Reporting: We use regular surveys and measurement to identify inequalities and implement measures to tackle them. To manage our social value commitments at call offs, we will use www.SocialValuePortal.com, a leader in social value contract management who will provide transparent 3rd party verified reporting.

  Wellbeing

  Accenture has responsibility to our employees and the communities we work within to lead in advancing the mental and physical wellbeing agenda. Supporting physical and mental health in the contract workforce: ; • We strive for excellence in relation to support our employees’ Health and Wellbeing (H&W): We actively encourage physical fitness through access to l fitness experiences catering to all levels. ; • Mental Health at Work Pledge – we are committed to upholding a set of standards that improves and supports mental health of our people. We implement the six Mental Health at Work commitment standards through consistent communication, training at all levels, open conversations, workplace conditions/adjustments, routine check-ins via people leads and engagement surveys ; • We offer private medical insurance, including unlimited access to GP appointments, and our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) including full access to confidential counsellors supporting our employees’ long-term mental health needs via a dedicated 24/7/365 helpline to all staff. ; • Influencing staff, suppliers, customers and communities through delivery of the contract: We will run our Truly Human workshops that focus on wellbeing – Heart (sense of belonging), Mind (mental wellbeing), Body (physical wellbeing) and Soul (sense of purpose); • We pride ourselves on mental health literacy for staff and provide opportunities to learn how to manage mental health effectively by: ; o Providing all staff with a mental health ally; o All staff will complete Mental Health Awareness courses so they can have effective conversations with their teams about metal health. ; • We will leverage Accenture Volunteering Programme to deliver volunteering days to drive positive health and wellbeing impact in community. ; • Reporting: We use regular surveys and measurement on staff wellbeing and explore opportunities to provide best-in-class support. To manage our social value commitments, we use www.SocialValuePortal.com, to provide transparent 3rd party verified reporting.

Pricing

• Price: £95 to £2,240 a unit a day
• Discount for educational organisations: No
• Free trial available: No

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card

  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 UK.TenderMonitoring@accenture.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.