CIVICA UK LIMITED

Civica HR & Payroll - PeopleHub

Civica PeopleHub HR & Payroll is designed to simplify and connect every aspect of people and management, delivering a seamless user experience for your people team and employees.

Cloud enabled integrated software makes HR & Payroll transactions easier, more automatic and intelligent. It helps transform your HR processes.

Features

• HR & Payroll workflow and process automation
• Customisable and flexible reporting and charting
• Recruitment and onboarding with e-Recruit options
• Detailed employee, contractual and career records
• Electronic and photo storage
• Create documents and contracts
• Manage holidays, absence and lateness
• Manage talent by recording skills/qualifications, analysing skills gaps
• Administer training courses, booking and budgets
• Pensions and auto-enrolment

Benefits

• Improves consistency and speed of access to information
• Reduce risk with HMRC compliance across payroll/pensions/benefits management
• Productivity and efficiency improvements through automation and data integration
• Improves insight with real-time reporting and workforce analytics
• Reduces the cost of capturing, storing/sharing applicant/employee information
• Better employee/applicant experience through seamless digital self-service engagement
• Provides improved understanding of talent challenges to support organisational goals
• Intuitive environment for ease of use
• Simplifies recruitment and onboarding with built-in requisitions and vacancy management
• Easily generate organisation charts with flexibility to manage complex structures

• Education pricing available

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

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Framework

G-Cloud 15

Service ID

571326473016728

Contact

Civica UK Limited
+44 (0) 3333 214 914
BidSupport@civica.com

About your service

• Service categories:

  Applications

  Enterprise resource management

  • Payroll management

  Human capital management

  • Core Human Resources Applications
  • Talent Management Applications
• Multi cloud support: No

Service scope

• Software add-on or extension: No
• Cloud deployment model:
  • Public cloud
  • Private cloud
• Service constraints: N/A
• System requirements: N/A

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Yes
• Support response times: Email or online ticketing.
• 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: Yes
• Web chat support availability: 24 hours, 7 days a week
• Web chat support accessibility standard: WCAG 2.2 AA
• Web chat accessibility testing: As of 2026, Civica Support Cloud is designed to be accessible and is built on the Salesforce Service Cloud platform, which maintains high global accessibility standards. Civica generally aims for all its web-based services to adhere to the WCAG 2.2 Level AA standard.
• Onsite support: Yes, at extra cost
• Support levels: Modern technology and dial in facilities are utilised by the support team to ensure a rapid response to client queries. Our support team is available to assist between the hours of 09:00 and 17:00 Monday to Friday, excluding statutory holidays in England and Wales. Out of hours support contracts are available upon request. Support is provided via the following mechanisms:; ; Telephone; Email; Internet; Remote dial-in; On-site; Regular e-newsletters; ; Eighty-eight per cent of all support calls are cleared with 1 hour and our clearly defined escalation procedures ensure that we have never had a non-processed payroll.; ; Each customer benefits from the services of a dedicated Account Manager. While our helpdesk team are on hand to deal with day-to-day enquiries, your Account Manager is your central point of contact here at Civica. Their role is to keep the lines of communication open and to work with you to ensure that you are getting the most out of your Civica HR & Payroll software.
• Support available to third parties: No
• AI chatbot: Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

• Getting started: On-boarding Key stages in the on-boarding process comprise the following, managed under Civica’s Project Management Methodology which is based on PRINCE2.; - Customer completes standard registration/order; - System installation; - Specific configuration and integration requirements to be agreed with the customer following installation and in line with contract; - Specification for any dedicated communication links agreed and plan provided; - Training given to customer project team; - Scoping and configuration workshops planned with Civica consultant.
• Service documentation: Yes
• Documentation formats:
  • PDF
  • Other
• Other documentation formats: Online Userbase videos
• End-of-contract data extraction: Data can be extracted in agreed formats. After contract termination all live client data will be deleted. All customer specific backups will be destroyed. There is an additional charge for providing individual backup services.
• End-of-contract process: Following completion of a service termination form an exit plan will be agreed including data extract arrangements. After data is extracted and the contract has been terminated, all live customer data will be deleted. All customer specific backups will be destroyed. There is an additional charge for providing individual backup services.
• Documentation accessibility standard: WCAG 2.2 AA

Using the service

• Web browser interface: Yes
• Supported browsers:
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Safari
  • Opera
• Application to install: No
• Designed for use on mobile devices: Yes
• Differences between the mobile and desktop service: The Android and IOS apps provide employee and manager self service functionality optimised for mobile use cases.
• Service interface: Yes
• User support accessibility: WCAG 2.2 AA
• Description of service interface: The PeopleHub software is accessible through any standard web browser.
• Accessibility standards: WCAG 2.2 AA
• Accessibility testing: Accessibility testing has been performed by an independent team, using industry standard testing tools.
• API: Yes
• What users can and can't do using the API: The Civica People Hub Web API allows developers to communicate with Civica software products quickly and efficiently and manipulate the data help, regardless of platform. It provides an easy way to implement RESTful web services using the .NET framework. It is especially helpful in web application development, enabling HTTP services to reach out to a broad range of clients including browsers, devices and tablets.; ; The API has over 300 methods that can be invoked to hook into the database. Comprehensive details are provided in the developer guide provided at point of sale.
• API documentation: Yes
• API documentation formats: PDF
• API sandbox or test environment: No
• Customisation available: Yes
• Description of customisation: The software is fully configurable to enable users to customise this to their needs, with user defined fields available for those data captures which are not already included within the product. Our implementation will train your users how to customise the software, so that customers can update their own configuration once live, without the need for Civica's involvement where this is standard functionality.; Any bespoke development work is not included and would be an additional charge.

Scaling

• Independence of resources: As a cloud solution, our services and databases are horizontally and vertically scaled based on the demands of our combined customer workloads.; Scaling is designed to ensure that we can accommodate peaks in demand. Our operations team use performance monitoring and alerting to ensure that sufficient headroom is maintained at all times.

Analytics

• Service usage metrics: Yes
• Metrics types: Service metrics can be customised in a number of ways including reporting and dashboards in a number of areas of the system. There is also an additional API that users can purchase to provide another way to provide this data in alternative solutions and integrations.
• Reporting types:
  • API access
  • Real-time dashboards
  • Reports on request
• Resource tagging: No
• FOCUS resource tagging: No

Resellers

• Supplier type: Not a reseller

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Conforms to BS7858:2019
• Government security clearance: 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 4.0)
• Penetration testing frequency: At least once a year
• Penetration testing approach: Another external penetration testing organisation
• Protecting data at rest:
  • Physical access control, complying with another standard
  • Encryption of all physical media
• Data sanitisation process: Yes
• Equipment disposal approach: Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v4.0, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001
• Data sanitisation type: Deleted data can’t be directly accessed / Cryptographic Erasure

Data importing and exporting

• Data export approach: Data can be extracted in agreed formats via the inbuilt reporting capabilities in the software. A number of standard reports are available, and users can also customise their reports to include calculations to export.
• Data export formats:
  • CSV
  • Other
• Other data export formats:
  • Excel
  • Word
  • PDF
  • RTF
  • Image
• Data import formats:
  • CSV
  • Other
• Other data import formats:
  • Excel
  • Word

Data-in-transit protection

• Data protection between buyer and supplier networks: TLS (version 1.2 or above)
• Data protection within supplier network: TLS (version 1.2 or above)

Availability and resilience

• Guaranteed availability: Civica guarantees 99.5% availability.; To support the standard availability commitment, Civica provides structured service‑level agreements for incident response and resolution. These include:; ; Priority 1 (Critical): Response within 1 support hour, resolution within 4 support hours; Priority 2 (High): Response within 2 support hours, resolution within 24 support hours; Priority 3 (Medium): Response within 4 support hours, resolution within 5 working days; Priority 4 (Low): Response within 6 support hours; ; * Resolution action is defined as a fix, a workaround or an action plan.; ; Suppliers can procure higher service levels through our tiered support if needed.; ; Supplier is happy to agree to Service Credits in principle. However, this point requires further negotiation. The Service Credits should be capped and bear direct relevance to the monthly charge. The Supplier will not be liable for Service Credits where any issues in performance are outside of their control.
• Approach to resilience: Available on request.
• Outage reporting: Infrastructure related scheduled maintenance will not occur between 07:00 and 19:00 Monday to Friday excluding English Bank Holidays. Maintenance will be arranged with a minimum of 3 working days’ notice, and will include a detailed description of the planned works, planned outcomes, and a detailed back-out plan, unless otherwise stated.; Unplanned outages will be notified via the Civica Service Desk.

Identity and authentication

• User authentication needed: Yes
• User authentication: Username or password
• Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels: Access is restricted based on role based access control policies.
• Access restriction testing frequency: At least every 6 months
• Management access authentication: Username or password

Audit information for users

• Access to user activity audit information: Users have access to real-time audit information
• How long user audit data is stored for: User-defined
• 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

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: Cyber Essentials; ISO22301
• Software Security Code of Practice: Yes

Operational security

• Configuration and change management standard: Complies with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v4.0 or SSAE-18 / ISAE 3402
• Configuration and change management approach: All hosted assets metadata is stored in a Configuration Management Data Base. This data base is access controlled to authorised staff only. The CMDB provides information essential to the secure hosting of client critical services.; Civica's Change Management process ensures that all changes are considered and planned, and appropriate, and that there is a clear audit trail of all changes.
• Vulnerability management type: Complies with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v4.0 or SSAE-18 / ISAE 3402
• Vulnerability management approach: Civica has vulnerability management processes in place for ISO27001 and PCI-DSS. These processes are externally audited on an annual basis to ensure continued compliance.; For external vulnerability scanning, Civica employs the services of an external ‘CHECK’ approved provider to perform an annual penetration test against the external management IP interface. Supporting this, Civica is also certified to the CESG approved Cyber Essentials scheme. For high value financial hosted system, Civica also maintains a PCI-DSS v3.1 certification. In scope systems are subject to month internal and external vulnerability scans as well as a full penetration test twice a year.
• Protective monitoring type: Complies with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v4.0 or SSAE-18 / ISAE 3402
• Protective monitoring approach: Civica take a proactive approach to information security through a process of continual monitoring and review. As part of a documented risk assessment methodology to identify and manage information security risks a dedicated security team update the risk register monthly.; Civica has a network monitoring solution in place ‘OpsView’ as well as a full antivirus and anti-malware solution. These technologies check the hosted services for errors, infections and unexpected network traffic and are support by Cisco IPS/IDS at the perimeter layer. This monitoring service provides defence in depth, against compromise, by detecting infections and suspicious networking activity within the environment.
• Incident management type: Complies with a recognised standard, for example, CSA CCM v4.0 or ISO/IEC 27035:2011 or SSAE-18 / ISAE 3402
• Incident management approach: Civica have developed an Incident Management process (PRM07) under ISO20000 standards which details both the Incident and Service Request Management processes.; The Civica Service Desk manages end user Service Requests, Incidents and Requests for Change (RFCs) which can be logged by e-mail, telephone and web portal.; Monthly customer reports will detail incident information.
• Post-quantum cryptography secure: Yes

Secure development

• Approach to secure software development best practice: Conforms to a recognised standard, but self-assessed

Public sector networks

• Connection to public sector networks: Yes
• Connected networks: Other
• Other public sector networks: HMRC

Pricing

• Discount for educational organisations: Yes
• Free trial available: No

Discount percentage by annual call-off contract value (excluding VAT)

• Less than £250,000: 0%
• Between £250,000 and £500,000: 0%
• Between £500,001 and £1,000,000: 0%
• Between £1,000,001 and £2,500,000: 0%
• Between £2,500,001 and £5,000,000: 0%
• Over £5,000,001: 0%

Non-mandatory Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: Yes
• Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001: ISOQAR
• ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date: Friday 15 August 2025
• What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover: N/A
• ISO 28000:2022 certification: No
• ISO 9001 certification: Yes
• Who accredited the ISO 9001 certification: ISOQAR
• ISO 9001 accreditation date: Friday 15 August 2025
• What the ISO 9001 doesn’t cover: N/A
• Quality management systems (QMS): Yes
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: No
• Cyber essentials: Yes
• Please provide your Cyber Essentials Certificate Number: 192154bb-d1b4-4c33-a961-8419a0f8e734
• Cyber essentials plus: No
• Cyber Essentials Alternative: None of the criteria
• Other security certifications: No

Social value

• Section B - Commitment for Future: Delivery:

  • 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
    • 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
    • Payment of more than the National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage (as appropriate) to the contract workforce
    • 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
    • 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
    • Understanding of the modern slavery risks and issues affecting the market, industry, sector or country (of origin or of source) relevant to the contract, and the workforce in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key subcontractors
    • Measures to identify, mitigate and manage modern slavery risks relating to the contract and how these will be implemented
    • 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
    • Means of influencing staff, suppliers, customers, communities and/or any other appropriate stakeholders with respect to modern slavery risks relating to the contract

  • 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.

    • 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

  • 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

    • Understanding of the types of businesses in the market and the level of participation by new businesses, entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs, VCSEs and mutuals
    • Activities that demonstrate a collaborative way to work with a diverse range of businesses as part of the supply chain
    • 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
    • Understanding of local demographics, needs and opportunities for the co-design of the goods, services and works to be delivered under the contract
    • Methods for engaging with different parts of the community (including the education system and charities representing the community) and how communities come together to inform decisions, strategy and projects to leave a positive legacy for future generations
    • Measures to involve local stakeholders and/or users in design (e.g. in the design of services, systems, products or buildings)

  • 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.

    • 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
    • Collaborative ways of working with the supply chain to deliver additional environmental benefits in the performance of the contract, including working towards net zero carbon emissions and use of clean energy and green technologies
    • Delivery of additional environmental benefits through the performance of the contract, including working towards net zero carbon emissions and use of clean energy and green technologies
    • Understanding of how to influence staff, suppliers, customers, communities and/or any other appropriate stakeholders through the delivery of the contract to support climate and nature protection and improvement
    • Activities to reconnect people with the environment and increase awareness of ways to protect and enhance it

  • 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

    • Understanding of employment and skills issues, and of the skills and employment shortages of high growth sectors relating to the contract
    • Delivery of training schemes and programmes to address any identified skills gaps and under-representation in the workforce for the contract (e.g. prison leavers, care leavers, kinship carers, disabled people)
    • 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
    • Collection of the views and expertise of disabled people and their representative organisations on successfully supporting disabled employees or applicants
    • Inclusive and accessible recruitment practices, and retention-focused activities, including those provided in the Guide for line managers on recruiting, managing and developing people with a disability or health condition
    • Introducing transparency to pay and reward processes
    • Working conditions which promote an inclusive working environment and promote retention and progression
    • Understanding of the issues affecting inequality in employment, skills and pay in 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 tackle inequality in employment, skills and pay in the contract workforce
    • Inclusive and accessible development practices, including guidance for line managers on recruiting, managing and developing people with a disability or health condition

  • 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.

    • Understanding of the issues affecting the development of new skills by target cohort
    • Understanding of the underlying factors affecting improvements to reduce barriers to entry and training schemes for the target cohort(s) related to the contract workforce
    • Understanding of issues relating to entering the contract workforce

  • 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.

    • Understanding of issues relating to health and wellbeing, including physical and mental health, in the contract workforce
    • Understanding barriers to access to health and social care services or employment opportunities e.g. digital inclusion
    • Inclusive and accessible recruitment practices, development practices and retention policies that support-focused activities including those provided in the Guide for line managers on recruiting, managing and developing which support people with a disability or health condition
    • Actions to invest in the physical and mental health and wellbeing of the contract workforce

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