HAND AND MILLAR MANAGEMENT CONSULTING LLP

Programme Assurance

Through tailored, adaptable and incremental assurance activity, to inspire confidence and trust among Portfolio, Programme and Project stakeholders that activity is being controlled effectively, coherently and consistently and consistently. Provides assurance planning and implementation activity.

Features

• Independent assurance of team capability, process fitness and benefits risk
• Provide independant review to provide recommendations for risk reduction
• Assurance workshops, assurance surgeries, assurance knowledge transfer
• Desk-top, interview and workshop assurance methodologies
• Provides evidence-based recommendations to support prioritised capability improvement
• Provides Project, Programme and Portfolio level assurance data and reports
• Provides assurancr training and knowledge transfer to help teams develop
• Integrated assurance across time, cost , performance aspects
• Integrated assurance across plan, risk and benefits
• Thematic-based recommendations for control improvement across the enterprise

Benefits

• Coherent Portfolio, Programme and Project approach
• Delivers independent perspective of delivery for sponsor and executives
• Better P3M delivery through continuously enhancing controls through experiential learning
• Enhanced team mastery, more productive and satisified teams
• Supports stakeholder engagement in and confidence of P3M delivery
• Facilitates a strategic approach to learning (double and triple loop)
• Drives capability development across people, processes, organisation and technology
• Builds enterprise data set on common experiences for executive management
• Can support risk-based prioritised interventions for areas of development,
• Reduces delivery risk on individual portfolios, programmes and projects

£300 to £1,250 a unit a day

• Education pricing available

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 procurement@handmillarconsulting.co.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.

Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

489303367686985

Contact

Jonathan Millar
07931160898
procurement@handmillarconsulting.co.uk

Planning

• Planning service: Yes
• How the planning service works: Hand and Millar will provide scalable assurance capability by supporting value and risk based activity for cloud services across the project, programme and portfolio activities. This may include the review of current project, programme and portfolio delivery services, organisational design, processes and methodologies and the recommendation of development of new processes and methodologies where appropriate.
• Planning service works with specific services: No

Training

• Training service provided: No

Setup and migration

• Setup or migration service available: Yes
• How the setup or migration service works: Hand and Millar’s comprehensive P3M assurance offering ensures that throughout any cloud based setup and migration, change related disruption to Business as Usual services is eliminated or minimised to acceptable and agreed levels, and that it is clear who is accountable for what. By designing and implementing right-sized assurance activity at appropriate and planned points in the cloud based set up or transition, it will be possible to deliver safely at the lowest cost within agreed risk appetite.
• Setup or migration service is for specific cloud services: No

Quality assurance and performance testing

• Quality assurance and performance testing service: Yes
• How the quality assurance and performance testing works: Hand and Millar’s P3M assurance offering forms an integral feature for ensuring customer requirements are delivered to agreed performance, cost and time envelope within cloud based projects and services. Additionally, Hand and Millar will provide quality assurance by assessing the scope and efficacy of the assurance processes, methodologies and artefacts to ensure that they are fit for purpose and recommend and implement any agreed improvements.

Security testing

• Security services: No

Ongoing support

• Ongoing support service: No

Service scope

• Service constraints: No constraints that are specific to this service

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Email or online ticketing
• Support response times: Hand and Millar provides telephone and email support for all GCloud procured services. An Account Manager will be assigned to lead each engagement who will reply to all correspondence within twenty-four hours of query receipt. This service will be available Monday to Friday (excluding Bank Holidays. Cover will be provided during periods of sickness and leave.
• 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: No
• Support levels: Hand and Millar provides telephone and email support for all GCloud procured services. An Account Manager will be assigned to lead each engagement who will reply to all correspondence within twenty-four hours of query receipt. This service will be available Monday to Friday (excluding Bank Holidays. Cover will be provided during periods of sickness and leave.

Resellers

• Supplier type: Not a reseller

Staff security

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

Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: No
• ISO 28000:2007 certification: No
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: No
• Cyber essentials: Yes
• Cyber essentials plus: No
• Other security certifications: No

Social Value

• Social Value:

  Social Value

  Tackling economic inequality

  Tackling economic inequality

  Through activities within the contract, Hand and Millar Management Consulting will create employment opportunities and recruit into these opportunities to ensure the company meets the equality, diversity and inclusion aspirations of its Partners, employees and associates. H&M will seek to recruit in particularly, but not exclusively, from Universities in inner cities. Further, it will accelerate the development and implementation of its emerging graduate scheme to align ever more closely with Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) skills. H&M aims to partner will educational providers of such skills, at both the higher and further educational level. H&M will seek out industry leading training scheme providers to supplement its internal development of all staff, including graduates. Where opportunities to do so present themselves, H&M will work with local comprehensive schools to promote the benefits of developing skills and careers in the STEM skills.

Pricing

• Price: £300 to £1,250 a unit a day
• Discount for educational organisations: Yes

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 procurement@handmillarconsulting.co.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.