Trustmarque Solutions Limited

TRUSTMARQUE MICROSOFT 365 ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT MANAGED SUPPORT SERVICE

As a Microsoft Gold Partner, our M365 Enterprise Agreement Managed Support Service is designed to help you select the most advantageous Enterprise Agreement, enabling you to derive business benefits and technical fit at the prime price point. Depending on the services purchased, it can incorporate requirements definition and scenario demonstrations.

Features

  • Customised Cloud reporting
  • Software Renewal Management
  • Bespoke/Agile Management platform
  • Assist organisations with crucial factors when undertaking Software Products selection
  • Recommend / identify potential products and support evaluation
  • Support organisations to assess services offered by Microsoft
  • Enable an objective, structured and rigorous process throughout
  • Dedicated Public Sector practitioners will provide sector expertise
  • Provided by a Microsoft Gold Partner
  • Capability - holding six UK Microsoft designations

Benefits

  • Improved management of estate maximising cost savings
  • Timely renewal of licenses
  • Improved transparency ensuring better license management
  • Expertise to ensure the most value from your software investments
  • Independent advice from a vendor-agnostic partner
  • Process-driven licensing operations model enabling predictability for end users
  • Specific guidance related to your department, agency or public body
  • Flexible service adaptable to the clients changing business needs
  • The Service will support the adoption of cloud technologies
  • Empowering transparent decision making

Pricing

£450 a unit

Service documents

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Framework

G-Cloud 13

Service ID

4 8 2 1 5 0 2 9 5 9 9 0 3 0 4

Contact

Trustmarque Solutions Limited Darren Moyes
Telephone: 01904 934435
Email: tenders@trustmarque.com

Service scope

Software add-on or extension
No
Cloud deployment model
  • Public cloud
  • Private cloud
  • Community cloud
  • Hybrid cloud
Service constraints
No
System requirements
  • Internet Access
  • Access device with Web Browser

User support

Email or online ticketing support
Yes, at extra cost
Support response times
Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm
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
Web chat
Web chat support availability
9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
Web chat support accessibility standard
None or don’t know
How the web chat support is accessible
Via Microsoft Teams
Web chat accessibility testing
N/A
Onsite support
Onsite support
Support levels
N/A
Support available to third parties
Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

Getting started
Service on-boarding follow the following process: 1. Introduce Account Team 2. Initial scoping call/meeting 3. Agree communication plan 4. Confirm SLAs are appropriate 5. Define reporting requirements and frequency 6. Commence Service
Service documentation
Yes
Documentation formats
PDF
End-of-contract data extraction
The data held by us is the procurement data from the service, this is provided upon request in the form of a CSV file.
End-of-contract process
Data will be provided upon contract termination

Using the service

Web browser interface
Yes
Supported browsers
  • Internet Explorer 11
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
Application to install
Yes
Compatible operating systems
  • Android
  • IOS
  • MacOS
  • Windows
  • Windows Phone
  • Other
Designed for use on mobile devices
Yes
Differences between the mobile and desktop service
None
Service interface
No
User support accessibility
None or don’t know
API
No
Customisation available
Yes
Description of customisation
This is a managed procurement service. As such, during on-boarding, the service is tailored to the clients needs. For example, the cloud communication platform the client is using.

Scaling

Independence of resources
We ensure that for every 10 enterprise scale organisation deploy we the following dedicated team: 1 x Client Director, 1 x Internal Account Manager, 1 x Licensing Specialist, 0.5 X Operational Admin , 0.5 X Procurement Admin, 0.2 X Vendor Alliance Manger. We use this model to scale this service and ensure that the integrity of the service is maintained at all times.

Analytics

Service usage metrics
Yes
Metrics types
We provide a range of data based on client activity through the service. This is broken down into, purchase history, spend analysis, delivery, SLAs, individual/group/departmental spend.
Reporting types
  • Real-time dashboards
  • Regular reports
  • Reports on request

Resellers

Supplier type
Reseller providing extra support
Organisation whose services are being resold
Microsoft

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
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
‘IT Health Check’ performed by a CHECK service provider
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
  • Scale, obfuscating techniques, or data storage sharding
Data sanitisation process
Yes
Data sanitisation type
  • Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
  • Deleted data can’t be directly accessed
Equipment disposal approach
Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v.30, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001

Data importing and exporting

Data export approach
The data held by us is the procurement data from the service, this is provided upon request in the form of a CSV file.
Data export formats
CSV
Data import formats
CSV

Data-in-transit protection

Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
Private network or public sector network
Data protection within supplier network
IPsec or TLS VPN gateway

Availability and resilience

Guaranteed availability
See Microsoft's Online Service Terms at http://www.microsoftvolumelicensing.com/Downloader.aspx?DocumentId=13655
Approach to resilience
Please see https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud-platform/global-datacenters and https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/TrustCenter/
Outage reporting
Please see https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/status/ and https://portal.azure.com/#blade/HubsExtension/ServicesHealthBlade

Identity and authentication

User authentication needed
No
Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
Not Applicable
Access restriction testing frequency
At least once a year
Management access authentication
Other
Description of management access authentication
Not Applicable

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
At least 12 months
Access to supplier activity audit information
Users contact the support team to get 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

Standards and certifications

ISO/IEC 27001 certification
Yes
Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
Lloyd's Register
ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
06/03/2020
What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
The scope of this approval is applicable to: Information Security for the provision and support of the end-to-end IT services; software, cloud, cyber security, managed services and datacentre solutions; including strategy, planning and integration, licensing, deployment, and management of third-party service providers. In accordance with Statement of Applicability version 5.n.
ISO 28000:2007 certification
No
CSA STAR certification
Yes
CSA STAR accreditation date
29/09/2016
CSA STAR certification level
Level 1: CSA STAR Self-Assessment
What the CSA STAR doesn’t cover
None
PCI certification
Yes
Who accredited the PCI DSS certification
Coalfire Systems Inc
PCI DSS accreditation date
01/04/2016
What the PCI DSS doesn’t cover
Service Scope is identified here http://aka.ms/azure-pci
Cyber essentials
Yes
Cyber essentials plus
No
Other security certifications
Yes
Any other security certifications
  • FACT
  • NHS IG Toolkit
  • FedRamp
  • NIST 800-171
  • EU Model Clauses

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
We follow Capita's internal Information Security Policy which is available on request.

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
Not Applicable
Vulnerability management type
Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
Vulnerability management approach
Not Applicable
Protective monitoring type
Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
Protective monitoring approach
Not Applicable
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
Not Applicable

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)

Public sector networks

Connection to public sector networks
No

Social Value

Fighting climate change

Fighting climate change

Trustmarque's Environmental Policy and Carbon Reduction Plan include delivering and supporting actions on reducing our carbon footprint and our impact on climate change. Our policies include 'Virtual First 'meetings, energy reduction plans, flexible working. Please contact Trustmarque to discuss the provision of Social Value. Any Social Value deliverable must be agreed with Trustmarque and be proportionate to the contract value and deliverables.
Covid-19 recovery

Covid-19 recovery

Trustmarque can provide re-training for those left unemployed by Covid-19 through skills training, CV and interview workshops. Please contact Trustmarque to discuss the provision of Social Value. Any Social Value deliverable must be agreed with Trustmarque and be proportionate to the contract value and deliverables.
Tackling economic inequality

Tackling economic inequality

Trustmarque tackles economic inequality through operating a diverse supply chain including a large number of SMEs and micro businesses. Our access to a broad range of suppliers ensures both resilience and capacity. Trustmarque is also continuously refining our supply chain to meet the ever-changing needs of our customers and to ensure we can always offer the best solution through capability, capacity and resilience at the best price. Our vendor agnostic approach among suppliers allows us to support innovation and disruptive technologies to deliver lower cost and/or higher quality goods and services to customers. Please contact Trustmarque to discuss the provision of Social Value. Any Social Value deliverable must be agreed with Trustmarque and be proportionate to the contract value and deliverables.
Equal opportunity

Equal opportunity

Trustmarque operates an Equal Opportunities policy that outlines our commitments including creating a workforce that reflects the diversity of our communities. Other initiatives include supporting disabled people to develop skills and supporting in-work progression. Please contact Trustmarque to discuss the provision of Social Value. Any Social Value deliverable must be agreed with Trustmarque and be proportionate to the contract value and deliverables.
Wellbeing

Wellbeing

We align our approach to mental wellbeing to the six standards in the Mental Health at Work commitment, including staff work and wellbeing sessions, flexible working, speak-up policy, etc. Please contact Trustmarque to discuss the provision of Social Value. Any Social Value deliverable must be agreed with Trustmarque and be proportionate to the contract value and deliverables.

Pricing

Price
£450 a unit
Discount for educational organisations
No
Free trial available
No

Service documents

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 tenders@trustmarque.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.