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ARUM SYSTEMS LTD

Technology Selection Services

Our Technology Selection Service provides you with assurance that you have selected the right cloud solution for your organisation. It enables you leverage our substantial knowledge of Cloud vendors and systems acquired over 25 years of hands on system implementation.

Features

  • Advice, guidance and support for cloud systems and vendor selection
  • Business case development for cloud services and systems
  • Development of service and system functional and non-functional requirements
  • Full market and vendor knowledge, analysis, evaluation, and interpretation
  • Independent and impartial vendor, service, and system evaluation
  • Full and impartial strategy and technology option appraisal
  • Support for all procurement models and stages
  • Rigorous RFI /RFP/ demo and full proposal assessments
  • Experience based technology implementation strategy advice and guidance

Benefits

  • Independent, impartial and experience based advice, guidance and support
  • Full market assessment before change ensuring best technology strategy selection
  • Latest knowledge of fast changing technologies, markets and vendors
  • Better value by ensuring technology meets business needs and objectives
  • Arum's proven framework accelerates the selection process
  • Arums experience helps identify risks and potential issues early
  • Effective decision making first time reduces overall cost of selection
  • Implementation experience to inform and support the selection process
  • Experience driven questions to challenge vendors throughout the process

Pricing

Service documents

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Framework

G-Cloud 15

Service ID

5 1 5 9 6 4 8 7 3 3 7 1 2 2 4

Contact

ARUM SYSTEMS LTD Forid Meah
Telephone: 0783 323 2728
Email: forid.meah@arum-global.com

About the service

Service categories
  • Cloud Support Services
    • Cloud Migration Planning
      • Capability analysis
        • Capability analysis
      • Cloud gap assessment
        • Cloud gap assessment
      • Delivery Road-mapping
        • Delivery Road-mapping
      • Other
        • Other

Service scope

Service constraints
None

User support

Email or online ticketing support
Yes
Support response times
Within 24 hours, 48 hours at weekends
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
We provide independent, expert advice and hands-on support to end users throughout the full lifecycle of cloud system and vendor selection, from early strategy and business case development through to procurement and implementation planning. Our support helps organisations clearly define service objectives, functional and non-functional requirements, and evaluate technology options with confidence, drawing on deep market knowledge and practical delivery experience. We guide users through all procurement models and stages, delivering rigorous and impartial RFI, RFP, demonstration and proposal assessments to ensure evidence-based decision-making. Throughout the process, we work closely with stakeholders to interpret complex technical and commercial information, manage risks, and translate recommendations into clear, implementable strategies that support successful adoption and long-term value realisation. Support is included in cost of services and an account manager is 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

Government Digital and Data Roles

Architecture roles

Business architect
Role level UK Rate Offshore Rate
Associate business architect £947.00
Business architect £1,838.00
Lead business architect £2,035.00
Data architect
Role level UK Rate Offshore Rate
Data architect £1,838.00
Senior data architect £2,035.00
Solution architect
Role level UK Rate Offshore Rate
Solution architect £1,838.00

Data roles

Data analyst
Role level UK Rate Offshore Rate
Associate analyst £1,177.00
Data analyst £1,398.00
Senior data analyst £1,838.00
Principal data analyst £2,035.00
Performance analyst
Role level UK Rate Offshore Rate
Associate performance analyst £947.00
Performance analyst £1,177.00
Senior performance analyst £1,398.00
Lead performance analyst £1,838.00
Head of performance analysis £2,035.00

IT operations roles

Business relationship manager
Role level UK Rate Offshore Rate
Business relationship manager £1,398.00
Senior business relationship manager £1,838.00
Lead business relationship manager £2,035.00
Change and release manager
Role level UK Rate Offshore Rate
Configuration analyst £1,838.00
Change and release analyst £1,838.00
Change and release manager £2,035.00

Product and delivery roles

Business analyst
Role level UK Rate Offshore Rate
Junior business analyst £947.00
Business analyst £1,177.00
Senior business analyst £1,398.00
Lead business analyst £1,838.00
Head of business analysis £2,035.00
Delivery manager
Role level UK Rate Offshore Rate
Associate delivery manager £1,177.00
Delivery manager £1,398.00
Senior delivery manager £1,838.00
Head of (Agile) delivery management £2,035.00
Digital portfolio manager
Role level UK Rate Offshore Rate
Digital portfolio analyst £1,177.00
Digital portfolio manager £1,398.00
Senior digital portfolio manager £1,838.00
Head of portfolio £2,035.00
Product manager
Role level UK Rate Offshore Rate
Associate product manager £1,177.00
Product manager £1,398.00
Senior product manager £1,838.00
Lead product manager £2,035.00
Head of product £2,195.00
Programme delivery manager
Role level UK Rate Offshore Rate
Programme delivery manager £2,035.00
Service owner
Role level UK Rate Offshore Rate
Service owner £2,035.00

Quality assurance testing (QAT) roles

Quality assurance testing (QAT) analyst
Role level UK Rate Offshore Rate
Tester (QAT) £1,177.00
QAT analyst £1,398.00
Senior QAT analyst £1,838.00
Lead QAT analyst £2,035.00
Test engineer
Role level UK Rate Offshore Rate
Tester (test engineer) £1,177.00
Test engineer £1,398.00
Senior test engineer £1,838.00
Lead test engineer £2,035.00

Software development roles

Development operations (DevOps) engineer
Role level UK Rate Offshore Rate
Junior DevOps engineer £947.00
DevOps engineer £1,177.00
Senior DevOps engineer £1,398.00
Senior DevOps engineer - management £1,398.00
Lead DevOps engineer £1,838.00
Lead DevOps engineer - management £1,838.00
Principal DevOps engineer £2,035.00
Principal DevOps engineer - management £2,035.00
Frontend developer
Role level UK Rate Offshore Rate
Junior frontend developer £947.00
Frontend developer £1,177.00
Senior frontend developer £1,398.00
Lead frontend developer £1,838.00
Head of frontend development £2,035.00
Software developer
Role level UK Rate Offshore Rate
Junior developer £947.00
Developer £1,177.00
Senior developer £1,398.00
Senior developer - management £1,398.00
Lead developer £1,838.00
Lead developer - management £1,838.00
Principal developer £2,035.00
Principal developer - management £2,035.00

Standards and certifications

ISO/IEC 27001 certification
Yes
ISO/IEC 27001 accredited by
Alcumus ISOQAR
ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
Tuesday 30 January 2024
What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
None
ISO 28000:2022 certification
No
ISO 9001 certification
Yes
ISO 9001 certification accredited by
HSEQ SMART
ISO 9001 accreditation date
Tuesday 20 May 2025
What the ISO 9001 doesn’t cover
None
Quality management systems (QMS)
Yes
CSA STAR certification
No
PCI certification
No
Cyber essentials
Yes
Cyber Essentials Certificate Number
5f944b14-4d2e-4ad5-8318-ecfc11e482d3
Cyber essentials plus
Yes
Cyber Essentials Plus Certificate Number
4c5c55dc-531b-496a-80b7-5a3bdf656311
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
  • 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
  • Monitoring and reporting of gender and ethnicity pay gaps and plans to address them where necessary
  • 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
  • Plans for an appropriate income replacement policy for staff who are required to spend time away from work to care for a sick dependent or close relative
  • Understanding of in-work progression issues affecting the market, industry or sector relevant to the contract, and in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key sub-contractors
  • 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 the contract workforce by providing career advice, and providing opportunities for staff working on the contract with in-work progression career development into known skills shortages or high growth areas
  • Support for educational attainment relevant to the contract, including training schemes that address skills gaps and result in recognised qualifications
  • Volunteering opportunities for staff

Policy Outcome 2: Skills for growth: Supporting growth sectors and addressing skills gaps.

  • Understanding of employment and relevant skills issues, and of the education and training issues relating to the contract. Illustrative examples: demographics, skills shortages, new opportunities in high growth sectors, geographic/local community and skills/employment challenges
  • Support for educational attainment relevant to the contract, including training schemes that address skills gaps and result in recognised qualifications
  • Activities to support relevant sector related skills growth and sustainability in the contract workforce. Illustrative examples: careers talks, curriculum support, literacy support, safety talks and volunteering

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 forid.meah@arum-global.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.