Fluid
Data Strategy & Readiness Assessment
Fluid’s Data Strategy & Readiness Assessment helps buyers understand how effectively data is structured, governed and used to support decision-making. We identify gaps in data maturity, define priority improvements and produce a practical roadmap for analytics, reporting and platform readiness, aligned to measurable organisational outcomes.
Features
- Assess current data maturity, governance and management practices
- Facilitate workshops to understand strategic reporting and analytics needs
- Review data sources, flows and information ownership structures
- Identify key gaps in quality, accessibility and consistency
- Define target data principles aligned to buyer objectives
- Provide practical recommendations for improved data governance controls
- Assess readiness for modern analytics and reporting platforms
- Prioritise actions supporting data-driven service improvement outcomes
- Produce a phased roadmap for delivery and adoption
- Provide structured knowledge transfer to internal stakeholders
Benefits
- Clear understanding of current data capability and gaps
- Improved data quality and accessibility for operational reporting
- Stronger governance supporting compliant and trusted information use
- Better alignment between data investment and service outcomes
- Reduced risk in future platform or analytics delivery
- Prioritised roadmap supporting sustainable data improvement activity
- Increased confidence in decision-making through reliable information
- Stronger foundation for procurement or implementation planning
- Shared stakeholder understanding of data priorities and responsibilities
- Reduced reliance on external support through knowledge transfer
Architecture roles
Business architect
| £1,130.00 |
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| £1,240.00 |
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Data architect
| £1,240.00 |
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| £1,240.00 |
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Enterprise architect
| £1,240.00 |
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Network architect
| £1,240.00 |
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Security architect
| £1,240.00 |
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Solution architect
| £1,240.00 |
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Technical architect
| £1,240.00 |
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Chief digital and data roles
Chief technology officer
| £1,500.00 |
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Cyber security roles
Cyber security governance and risk management
| £1,240.00 |
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Data roles
Analytics engineer
| £935.00 |
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| £1,130.00 |
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Data analyst
| £850.00 |
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| £935.00 |
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Data governance manager
| £1,130.00 |
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| £1,240.00 |
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Performance analyst
| £935.00 |
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| £1,130.00 |
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IT operations roles
Change and release manager
| £1,130.00 |
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| £1,240.00 |
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IT service manager
| £935.00 |
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| £1,240.00 |
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| £1,500.00 |
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Service transition manager
| £935.00 |
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| £1,130.00 |
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| £1,240.00 |
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Product and delivery roles
Business analyst
| £1,130.00 |
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| £1,240.00 |
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Delivery manager
| £935.00 |
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| £1,240.00 |
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Programme delivery manager
| £1,240.00 |
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Software development roles
Development operations (DevOps) engineer
| £935.00 |
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| £1,240.00 |
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Software developer
| £850.00 |
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| £935.00 |
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| £1,240.00 |
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User-centred design roles
Service designer
| £1,130.00 |
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| £1,240.00 |
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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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Yes
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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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26a3c8d6-7277-4150-b2ae-9a282cdb8e6a
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Cyber essentials plus
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No
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Cyber Essentials Alternative
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In relation to the services you do not have a current and valid Cyber Essentials Plus certificate which has been awarded by one of the government approved Cyber Essentials accreditation bodies but you are working towards gaining it, and will be in a position to confirm that you have been awarded a current and valid Cyber Essentials Plus certificate by one of the government approved accreditation bodies within 12 months of the date of award.
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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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Payment of more than the National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage (as appropriate) to the contract workforce
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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
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Plans for positive actions with community groups.
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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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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
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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 6: Employment and training: For those who face barriers to employment
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Understanding of employment and skills issues, and of the skills and employment shortages of high growth sectors relating to the contract
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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
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Working conditions which promote an inclusive working environment and promote retention and progression
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Inclusive and accessible development practices, including guidance for line managers on recruiting, managing and developing people with a disability or health condition
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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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Other measures to offer development opportunities for the target cohort(s) in the contract workforce
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Understanding of issues relating to entering the contract workforce
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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
Service documents
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