EntServ UK Ltd part of the DXC Technologies Group

DXC Technology Software Licensing and Management Solutions

DXC Software Licensing and Management Solutions services range from license resale, subscription management, software portfolio and asset management. DXC is the partner that can become the client's single point of accountability to optimize software, whether managing licensing for specific cloud workloads, a full enterprise licensing and software asset management solution.

Features

• A consistent platform of services for the procurement
• Provides maximum benefit from your existing investments
• Consolidates software spend and licence compliance
• Analyses software use and spend, identifying deployment/reuse efficiencies
• Advises on negotiating improved pricing, volume contracts, deployment strategy
• Introduces proven software acquisition and software asset management practices
• Supports licensing on current platform or the cloud
• Discovery of all software in your environment
• Software rationalisation used throughout the organisation to eliminate duplicate licences
• Introduces proven resale

Benefits

• Optimises investment and demonstrates compliance with software licensing policies
• Rationalises software used throughout the organisation eliminating duplicate licences
• Best commercial pricing: aligned to consumption and business trends
• Avoids the risk of costly audits
• Drives software savings with DXC’s proven commitment and support
• Achieves and maintains compliance through control of licence portfolios
• Integrated system with multilingual online portal and B2B capabilities
• Expert advice on cost savings
• Vulnerability insights across software and IT hardware end-of-life

£525 to £1,987 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

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

Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

483533959476063

Contact

DXC Frameworks Team
+44 330 105 8389
ukitenders@dxc.com

Service scope

• Software add-on or extension: No
• Cloud deployment model: Hybrid cloud
• Service constraints: No
• System requirements: No requirements

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Email or online ticketing
• Support response times: Response SLAs vary based on Contract and ticket Priority. Response is within 1 hour and resolution within 2 hours for premier support under a priority 1 issue.
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: No
• Phone support: Yes
• Phone support availability: 24 hours, 7 days a week
• Web chat support: No
• Onsite support: No
• Support levels: As part of our service, we provide consultants license experts to help you navigate the complexity associated with disruptive technologies (cloud, mobility, SaaS, and BYOD), agreements, purchasing controls, renewals, compliance, client-reseller relationships and pricing.
• Support available to third parties: Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

• Getting started: Remote onboarding training to administrators.
• Service documentation: Yes
• Documentation formats: HTML
• End-of-contract data extraction: Available upon request
• End-of-contract process: Beginning ninety (90) days before the Agreement is scheduled to expire, or promptly following issuance of a termination notice, the Parties will have the following responsibilities. DXC will: (a) Give periodic notice to Customer of pending expiration or termination of the Agreement (b) Over-write all storage media after (i) receiving Customer’s notice that Customer Data and Customer’s software has been removed or, if no such notice is received (ii) thirty (30) days from expiration or the effective date of termination. Thereafter, Customer Data and Customer software will be permanently erased without further notice to Customer; and (c) Give Customer notice that all server systems and storage media have been erased and that all access to the DXC network and Services has ceased. Customer will do all of the following in a timely manner: (a) Remove all Customer Data and Customer software and notify DXC once removed; (b) Request that DXC remove Customer’s domain names from the DXC service domain. (c) Disconnect from the Datacentre.

Using the service

• Web browser interface: No
• Application to install: Yes
• Compatible operating systems:
  • Linux or Unix
  • MacOS
  • Windows
• Designed for use on mobile devices: No
• Service interface: No
• User support accessibility: None or don’t know
• API: No
• Customisation available: No

Scaling

• Independence of resources: N/A

Analytics

• Service usage metrics: Yes
• Metrics types: Console providing live usage detail to administrators and a range of pre-configured reports agreed in start up phase.
• Reporting types:
  • Real-time dashboards
  • Regular reports
  • Reports on request

Resellers

• Supplier type: Reseller providing extra support
• Organisation whose services are being resold: Software

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: No
• 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: In-house
• Protecting data at rest: Physical access control, complying with CSA CCM v3.0
• Data sanitisation process: Yes
• Data sanitisation type: 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: Available upon request
• 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
  • IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
• Data protection within supplier network: IPsec or TLS VPN gateway

Availability and resilience

• Guaranteed availability: N/A for Software license management
• Approach to resilience: Available on request
• Outage reporting: Email alerts

Identity and authentication

• User authentication needed: Yes
• User authentication: Username or password
• Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels: Available on request
• Access restriction testing frequency: At least once a year
• Management access authentication:
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
  • Limited access network (for example PSN)

Audit information for users

• Access to user activity audit information: Users receive audit information on a regular basis
• How long user audit data is stored for: At least 12 months
• Access to supplier activity audit information: Users receive audit information on a regular basis
• 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: 28/05/2018
• What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover: Available on Request
• ISO 28000:2007 certification: No
• CSA STAR certification: Yes
• CSA STAR accreditation date: 29/11/2016
• 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: No

Security governance

• Named board-level person responsible for service security: Yes
• Security governance certified: Yes
• Security governance standards:
  • CSA CCM version 3.0
  • ISO/IEC 27001
• Information security policies and processes: 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: Built on Cloud Service which is accredited to UK Gov standards for PSN connectivity. Details available on request.
• Vulnerability management type: Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
• Vulnerability management approach: Details available on request.
• Protective monitoring type: Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
• Protective monitoring approach: Details available on request.
• 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: Details available on request.

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

• Social Value:

  Social Value

  • Fighting climate change
  • Tackling economic inequality
  • Equal opportunity
  • Wellbeing

  Fighting climate change

  We recognise the impact companies have on the environment we all live in. We are committed to being net zero by 2050 in the UK. The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has validated our near-term emission reduction target of 65% by FY30 against our FY19 baseline as being in line with minimizing global warming to 1.5°C. In FY23, 96% of the energy we purchased in the UK was renewable. We are continually improving the efficiency of our offices and data centers, and are ensuring that our data centers are certified under the ISO 50001 energy management system standard. We are also advancing the sustainability of our IT services, helping our customers to become more sustainable. We are members of the Green Software Foundation, a non-profit with the mission to build a trusted ecosystem of people, standards, tooling and best practices for creating and building green software. We help our customers increase their energy efficiency and reduce their environmental impacts with proprietary technology and next-generation solutions such as cloud computing, desktop virtualization and data center management. We will build on our existing programme of sustainability activities to deliver additional environmental benefits in the performance of the contract.

  Tackling economic inequality

  We provide high-quality learning and development opportunities to young people via our Early Careers Programme and Digital Futures Academy. Our Early Careers Programme provides development opportunities and training to enable young people to jumpstart their careers. We focus on developing potential, and our programme is designed to broaden and deepen knowledge. DXC and Manchester United Foundation have partnered to launch the DXC Digital Futures Academy, a four-year education programme for secondary-school students in the Greater Manchester area. The academy aims to support, inspire and empower young people, connecting them to opportunities and enhancing their career prospects in the technology sector. 50 students aged 12-13 years old are participating in the programme, which includes teaching technology, personal and professional development skills. We will build upon our existing programme of activities to create new jobs and new skills during the performance of the contract.

  Equal opportunity

  We are building an inclusive, high-impact culture based on equitable practices and diverse employee perspectives. We achieve this through our focus on impact-driven programmes - for example, the DXC Dandelion Programme. The DXC Dandelion Programme provides an environment that supports and celebrates the talents and skills of neurodiverse people — such as those with Autism, ADHD or Dyslexia — and helps them build valuable skills to pursue a career in information technology. The DXC Dandelion Programme has been awarded a Silver award for Best Learning Programme that Supports and Promotes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion from the Brandon Hall Group. We are also a Disability Confident organisation in the UK and achieved a top score of 100 in the 2023 Disability Equality Index. 99% of our global workforce is enabled to work virtually, including from home, and all of our people are able to apply for flexible working, supporting the needs of diverse individuals. We also support a diverse, inclusive and equitable culture through our Employee Resource Groups. They provide support, networking and allyship to diverse individuals, as well as valuable feedback to the organisation on how it can better support diverse communities. Our ERGs work closely with HR to continuously evolve our best practice. We have several ERGs including for: ; • Gender ; • Race and ethnicity ; • Disability and neurodiversity ; • LGBTQ+ ; • Armed forces ; ; We will build upon our existing programme of diversity, equity and inclusion activities to support equal opportunity during the performance of the contract.

  Wellbeing

  Caring is core to our values. We take care of each other and work as a team to build a sustainable company that supports our communities. This includes supporting the health and wellbeing of our people and wider society. As a virtual first organisation, 99% of our global workforce is enabled to work virtually, including from home. Working from home can be more inclusive for people with disabilities, health conditions and caring responsibilities. We also run several programmes to support the physical and mental health of our people. This includes:; Wellbeing Awareness Programmes. Working with our partners and delivered by Wellbeing Champions alongside HR, we provide a number of awareness programmes and activities throughout the year centered on improving the health and wellbeing of our employees. For example, walking challenges, healthy eating programmes, and financial planning support.; Employee Assistance Programme, supporting the personal matters of our people. Services are available 24/7, 365 days a year, and include counselling, online CBT and critical incident support, as well as health checks, mood trackers, and wellbeing articles. ; Mental Health First Aiders. We work with Mental Health First Aid England, a social enterprise, to train our employees as Mental Health First Aiders (MHFAs). ; We will build upon our existing programme of wellbeing activities to support the wellbeing of the workforce in the performance of the contract.

Pricing

• Price: £525 to £1,987 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 ukitenders@dxc.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.