SOFTCAT PLC

Softcat Cloud PaaS Application Platform Services

Delivery of IaaS/PaaS Services through Softcat's vendor partners. SCCA25

Features

Design, supply and management of IaaS/PaaS Services

Benefits

Vendor negotiation and support

Education pricing available
Free trial available

Service documents

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Framework

G-Cloud 15

Service ID

Contact

SOFTCAT PLC Public Sector Tenders
Telephone: 01628 403403
Email: psitq@softcat.com

About your service

Service categories

PaaS

Application Platforms

Deployment-centric application platforms
Model-driven application platforms
Robotic process automation

Service scope

Service constraints: Dependant on solution
System requirements: Dependant on solution
Cloud deployment model: Public cloud

Private cloud

Hybrid cloud

User support

Email or online ticketing support: Yes
Support response times: Dependant on solution
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: 24 hours, 7 days a week
Web chat support: Yes
Web chat support availability: 24 hours, 7 days a week
Web chat support accessibility standard: None or don’t know
How the web chat support is accessible: Dependant on solution
Web chat accessibility testing: Dependant on solution
Onsite support: Yes, at extra cost
Support levels: Dependant on solution
Support available to third parties: Yes
AI chatbot: Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

Getting started: Dependant on solution
Service documentation: Yes
Documentation formats: HTML

ODF

PDF

Other
Other documentation formats: Dependant on solution
End-of-contract data extraction: Dependant on solution
End-of-contract process: Dependant on solution
Documentation accessibility standard: None or don’t know
How the documentation is accessible: Dependant on solution

Using the service

Web browser interface: Yes
Using the web interface: Dependant on solution
Web interface accessibility standard: None or don’t know
How the web interface is accessible: Dependant on solution
Web interface accessibility testing: Dependant on solution
API: Yes
What users can and can't do using the API: Dependant on solution
API automation tools: Ansible

Chef

OpenStack

SaltStack

Terraform

Puppet

Other
Other API automation tools: Dependant on solution
API documentation: Yes
API documentation formats: Open API (also known as Swagger)

HTML

ODF

PDF

Other
Command line interface: Yes
Command line interface compatibility: Linux or Unix

Windows

MacOS

Other
Using the command line interface: Dependant on solution

Scaling

Independence of resources: Dependant on solution
Usage notifications: Yes
Usage reporting: API

Email

SMS

Other
Other usage reporting: Dependant on solution
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

Other
Other metrics: Dependant on solution
Reporting types: API access

Real-time dashboards

Regular reports

Reports on request
Resource tagging: Yes
FOCUS resource tagging: Yes

Resellers

Supplier type: Reseller (no extras)
Organisation whose services are being resold: AWs, Microsoft, Various

Staff security

Staff security clearance: Other security clearance
Government security clearance: Security Clearance (SC)

Asset protection

Knowledge of data storage and processing locations: Yes
Data storage and processing locations: United Kingdom

European Economic Area (EEA)

Other locations
User control over data storage and processing locations: Yes
Datacentre security standards: Managed by a third party
Penetration testing frequency: At least once a year
Penetration testing approach: In-house
Protecting data at rest: Physical access control, complying with CSA CCM v4.0

Physical access control, complying with SSAE-18 / ISAE 3402

Physical access control, complying with another standard

Encryption of all physical media

Scale, obfuscating techniques, or data storage sharding

Other
Other data at rest protection approach: Dependant on solution
Data sanitisation process: Yes
Equipment disposal approach: A third-party destruction service
Data sanitisation type: Deleted data can’t be directly accessed / Cryptographic Erasure

Data Erasure

Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation / Secure Erase

Degaussing

Physical Destruction / Hardware containing data is completely destroyed

Backup and recovery

What’s backed up: Dependant on solution
Backup controls: Dependant on solution
Datacentre setup: Multiple datacentres with disaster recovery

Multiple datacentres

Single datacentre with multiple copies

Single datacentre
Scheduling backups: Supplier controls the whole backup schedule
Backup recovery: Users can recover backups themselves, for example through a web interface

Users contact the support team
Backup and recovery: Yes
RPO/RTO: Yes

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

Legacy SSL and TLS (under version 1.2)

Other
Other protection between networks: Dependant on solution
Data protection within supplier network: TLS (version 1.2 or above)

IPsec or TLS VPN gateway

Legacy SSL and TLS (under version 1.2)

Other
Other protection within supplier network: Dependant on solution

Availability and resilience

Guaranteed availability: Dependant on solution
Approach to resilience: Dependant on solution
Outage reporting: Dependant on solution

Identity and authentication

User authentication needed: Yes
User authentication: Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)

Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)

Limited access network (for example PSN)

Dedicated link (for example VPN)

Username or password

Other
Other user authentication: Dependant on solution
Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels: Dependant on solution
Access restriction testing frequency: At least once a year
Management access authentication: Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)

Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)

Limited access network (for example PSN)

Dedicated link (for example VPN)

Username or password

Other
Description of management access authentication: Dependant on solution
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: You control when users can access audit information
How long user audit data is stored for: At least 12 months
Access to supplier activity audit information: You control when users can access audit information
How long supplier audit data is stored for: At least 12 months
How long system logs are stored for: At least 12 months

Security governance

Named board-level person responsible for service security: Yes
Security governance certified: Yes
Security governance standards: Other
Other security governance standards: Dependant on solution
Information security policies and processes: Dependant on solution

Operational security

Configuration and change management standard: Supplier-defined controls
Configuration and change management approach: Dependant on solution
Vulnerability management type: Supplier-defined controls
Vulnerability management approach: Dependant on solution
Protective monitoring type: Supplier-defined controls
Protective monitoring approach: Dependant on solution
Incident management type: Supplier-defined controls
Incident management approach: Dependant on solution
Post-quantum cryptography secure: No

Secure development

Approach to secure software development best practice: Supplier-defined process

Separation between users

Virtualisation technology used to keep applications and users sharing the same infrastructure apart: Yes
Who implements virtualisation: Third-party
Third-party virtualisation provider: Dependant on solution
How shared infrastructure is kept separate: Dependant on solution

Energy efficiency

Energy-efficient datacentres: Yes
Description of energy efficient datacentres: Dependant on solution

Pricing

Discount for educational organisations: Yes
Free trial available: Yes
Description of free trial: Dependant on solution

Discount

Provide your minimum discount applicable to your baseline prices: 0%

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

Total Cost: The Total Cost for a buyer's call off requirement in a Public Cloud Deployment
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Baseline Pricing: Baseline pricing will provided as per the the vendors publicly available catalogue where available and included in the individual G-Cloud catalogue entries, examples include:

https://calculator.aws/#/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/pricing/calculator/

https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator
Baseline Pricing - Web link: https://calculator.aws/#/
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Minimum Discounting: 0%
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Onboarding Activity: Onboarding costs may vary based on your specific requirements, please confirm with suppliers during the clarification process
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Additional sources of cost: Sources of costs that may relate to buyer's purchasing services under G-Cloud include:
- CPI or other inflationary increase
- Resource required for contract commencement, which is dependant on the size and requirement from the customer
- Increase supply chain costs to Softcat
- Vendor programmatic changes which affect discounts and purchases prices
- additional features / customisation required
- special considerations such as security

Our vendors pricing follows various models such as reoccurring subscription and consumption models, which have various charging models (usage, user) and are priced differently. Additional sources of cost depend on the model customers are purchasing from.
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Additional sources of cost reduction: There are a variety of different cost reduction sources Softcat can leverage for Buyers under G-Cloud 15, these include:
- Vendor discount programmes
- Reserved Instances
- Savings Plans
- OGVA
- MACC
- GCP PPA
- Volume and Bundling Discounts
- Contract Length Discounts
- Licensing Optimisation efforts
- Contract flexibility, minimising unused software costs.

Private Cloud - Formula for calculating price of your services

Total Cost: The Total Cost for a buyer's call off requirement in a Private Cloud Deployment
=
Baseline Pricing: Baseline pricing will provided as per the the vendors publicly available catalogue where available and included in the individual G-Cloud catalogue entries, examples include:

https://calculator.aws/#/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/pricing/calculator/

https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator
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Minimum Discounting: 0%
+
Onboarding Activity: Onboarding costs may vary based on your specific requirements, please confirm with suppliers during the clarification process
+
Additional sources of cost: Sources of costs that may relate to buyer's purchasing services under G-Cloud include:
- CPI or other inflationary increase
- Resource required for contract commencement, which is dependant on the size and requirement from the customer
- Increase supply chain costs to Softcat
- Vendor programmatic changes which affect discounts and purchases prices
- additional features / customisation required
- special considerations such as security

Our vendors pricing follows various models such as reoccurring subscription and consumption models, which have various charging models (usage, user) and are priced differently. Additional sources of cost depend on the model customers are purchasing from.
-
Additional sources of cost reduction: There are a variety of different cost reduction sources Softcat can leverage for Buyers under G-Cloud 15, these include:
- Vendor discount programmes
- Reserved Instances
- Savings Plans
- OGVA
- MACC
- GCP PPA
- Volume and Bundling Discounts
- Contract Length Discounts
- Licensing Optimisation efforts
- Contract flexibility, minimising unused software costs.

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

Website address

https://marketplace.microsoft.com/en-GB/marketplace/partner-dir/c3d431f1-3e02-4c62-a825-79cd8f9e2053/overview

Organisation 2

Organisation name

AWS

Website address/upload for organisation

Website address

https://partners.amazonaws.com/search/partners/?keyword=Softcat%20plc

Organisation 3

Organisation name

Salesforce

Website address/upload for organisation

Upload

Provided

Organisation 4

Organisation name

IBM

Website address/upload for organisation

Upload

Provided

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: 181966c9-f0aa-42ed-9271-d1b111bdf43b

Non-mandatory Standards and certifications

ISO 28000:2022 certification: No
Quality management systems (QMS): Yes
CSA STAR certification: No
PCI certification: Yes
Who accredited the PCI DSS certification: SecurityMetrics
PCI DSS accreditation date: Friday 10 January 2025
What the PCI DSS doesn’t cover: N/A
Other security certifications: Yes
Any other security certifications: ISO 27001

Security Standards dependant on the vendor solution

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 apprenticeships on the contract workforce in the relevant area that meet the criteria set out in MAC 1b

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

Ensuring new workers are informed of their right to join a trade union

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

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

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

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

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)

Ensuring accessibility to contracting and subcontracting opportunities for disabled business owners and employees

Support for community-led initiatives relevant to the contract. Illustrative examples: improving transport links; reducing loneliness; helping with English language proficiency; and facilitating social mixing among people with different backgrounds

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)

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

Collection of the views and expertise of disabled people and their representative organisations on successfully supporting disabled employees or applicants

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

Understanding of issues relating to entering the contract workforce

Creation of outreach activities to create a pipeline of employees for the future contract delivery

Content of the outreach activity is designed to suit 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

Request an accessible format

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Softcat Cloud PaaS Application Platform Services

Features

Benefits

Pricing

Service documents

Framework

Service ID

Contact

About your service

Service scope

User support

Onboarding and offboarding

Using the service

Scaling

Analytics

Resellers

Staff security

Asset protection

Backup and recovery

Data-in-transit protection

Availability and resilience

Identity and authentication

Audit information for users

Security governance

Operational security

Secure development

Separation between users

Energy efficiency

Pricing

Discount

Formula for calculating price of your services

Mandatory certifications

Cyber Essentials

Non-mandatory Standards and certifications

Social value

Service documents