SIERRA NEVADA CORPORATION MISSION SYSTEMS UK, LTD

SANDBOX

SANDBOX is SNC MS UK’s battlefield digital twin, delivering end-to-end virtual prototyping, mission rehearsal and lifecycle optimisation. It enables rapid design, predictive analytics, training, and sustainment with full traceability helping Defence test, adapt, and deploy capabilities faster, safer, and securely with mission-ready confidence.

Features

• Virtual prototyping
• Mission rehearsal
• Lifecycle optimisation
• Rapid design
• Predictive analytics
• Full traceability

Benefits

• Faster, safer deployment of new systems and features
• Reduced cost of prototyping and deployment

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

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Framework

G-Cloud 15

Service ID

444400836729562

Contact

SNC Mission Systems UK
02921921237
Dan.Ridley@snc-ms.uk

About the service

• Service categories:
  • Cloud Support Services
    • Quality Assurance and Performance Testing
      • Test automation
        • Development
        • Implementation
      • Performance testing
        • Load Testing
        • Stress Testing
        • Volume Testing
        • Soak Testing
        • Scalability Testing
        • Capacity Planning
      • Assurance/testing design
        • Assurance/testing design
      • Infrastructure performance testing
        • Infrastructure performance testing
      • Operational readiness testing
        • Accessibility testing

Service scope

• Service constraints: Any constraints which may have a tangible effect on users will be discussed during configuration and optimisation planning.

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Yes
• Support response times: Within 24 hours
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: Yes
• Online ticketing support accessibility: None or don’t know
• Phone support: Yes
• Phone support availability: 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
• Web chat support: Yes
• Web chat support availability: 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
• AI chatbot: No
• Web chat support accessibility standard: None or don’t know
• How the web chat support is accessible: Web chat is accessible via online user interface portal or Microsoft Teams
• Web chat accessibility testing: None
• Support levels: Support is included in the cost.; A Technical Account Manager will be provided.

Supplier type

• Supplier type: Not a reseller

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Conforms to BS7858:2019
• Government security clearance: Developed Vetting (DV)

Pricing

• Discount for educational organisations: No

Architecture roles

Business architect

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Business architect	£2,350.00	£2,585.00

Data architect

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Data architect	£2,350.00	£2,585.00

Network architect

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Network architect	£2,350.00	£2,585.00

Security architect

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Security architect	£2,350.00	£2,585.00

Solution architect

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Solution architect	£2,350.00	£2,585.00

Technical architect

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Technical architect	£1,650.00	£1,898.00

Chief digital and data roles

Chief technology officer

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Chief technology officer	£2,550.00	£2,805.00

Cyber security roles

Cyber security secure design

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Lead cyber security secure systems architecture and design	£1,650.00	£1,898.00
Principal cyber security secure systems architecture and design	£1,650.00	£1,898.00

Data roles

Analytics engineer

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Analytics engineer	£1,650.00	£1,898.00

Data analyst

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Data analyst	£1,650.00	£1,898.00

Data engineer

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Data engineer	£1,650.00	£1,898.00

Data scientist

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Data scientist	£1,650.00	£1,898.00

IT operations roles

Application operations engineer

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Application operations engineer	£1,650.00	£1,898.00

Change and release manager

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Change and release manager	£1,650.00	£1,898.00

Command and control centre manager

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Operational control manager	£1,650.00	£1,898.00

End user computing engineer

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
End user computing engineer	£1,650.00	£1,898.00

IT service manager

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
IT service manager	£1,650.00	£1,898.00

Incident manager

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Incident manager	£1,650.00	£1,898.00

Problem manager

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Problem manager	£1,650.00	£1,898.00

Product and delivery roles

Business analyst

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Business analyst	£1,775.00	£1,953.00

Delivery manager

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Delivery manager	£1,650.00	£1,898.00

Programme delivery manager

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Programme delivery manager	£2,000.00	£2,200.00

Service owner

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Service owner	£1,650.00	£1,898.00

Quality assurance testing (QAT) roles

Quality assurance testing (QAT) analyst

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
QAT analyst	£1,650.00	£1,898.00

Test engineer

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Test engineer	£1,375.00	£1,581.00

Test manager

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Test manager	£1,375.00	£1,581.00

Software development roles

Development operations (DevOps) engineer

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
DevOps engineer	£1,650.00	£1,898.00

Frontend developer

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Frontend developer	£1,375.00	£1,581.00

Software developer

Role level	UK Rate	Offshore Rate
Developer	£1,375.00	£1,581.00

Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: Yes
• ISO/IEC 27001 accredited by: BSI
• ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date: Tuesday 30 June 2026
• What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover: Please note the declaration above will be accurate at the time of Framework Award. We are scheduled to have our ISO/IEC certification accredited by BSI in June 2026 and can provide a letter of confirmation of the same from BSI. The scope of the certified ISMS covers all business processes, information assets, technologies, and personnel involved in delivering, supporting, and managing the SNC MS UK's services and digital products, including software development, data modelling and analytics, network and infrastructure management, and IT Service Management. It applies to all organisational sites, cloud environments, and authorised remote working locations, ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information throughout its lifecycle. This scope covers all digital services and products offered through G-Cloud 15.
• ISO 28000:2022 certification: No
• ISO 9001 certification: Yes
• ISO 9001 certification accredited by: BSI
• ISO 9001 accreditation date: Saturday 14 December 2024
• What the ISO 9001 doesn’t cover: The ISO 9001 scope excludes corporate finance functions, which are governed through separate financial audit and assurance frameworks; all service delivery and operational activities are included within scope.
• Quality management systems (QMS): Yes
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: No
• Cyber essentials: Yes
• Cyber Essentials Certificate Number: Dc002eca-9683-4af2-9cd8-4a95d16e19af
• Cyber essentials plus: Yes
• Cyber Essentials Plus Certificate Number: B24fa866-231d-4ab3-a44a-57ea24e73479
• Other security certifications: No

Social value

• 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
  • 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
  • Activities to cascade good practice on fair working conditions throughout the supply chain
  • Offer a pay and leave entitlement to all eligible staff who become kinship carers, ideally equivalent to statutory adoption pay and leave
  • Payment of more than the National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage (as appropriate) to the contract workforce
  • 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
  • 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 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

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at Dan.Ridley@snc-ms.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.