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AWS AppFabric

AWS AppFabric quickly connects software as a service (SaaS) applications across your organization, so IT and security teams can easily manage and secure applications using a standard schema, and employees can complete everyday tasks faster using generative AI.

Features

• SaaS application interoperability with native connections

Benefits

• Connect applications quickly reducing operational costs

• Free trial available

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

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

Framework

G-Cloud 15

Service ID

573678549818702

Contact

Public Sector Tenders
01628 403403
psitq@softcat.com

About your service

• Service categories:

  PaaS

  Integration and Orchestration

  • Integration software

Service scope

• Service constraints: Please see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/appfabric.html
• System requirements: N/A
• Cloud deployment model: Public cloud

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Yes
• Support response times: Business Support+:General guidance <24 hours;system impaired <12 hours;production system impaired <4 hours;production system down < 1 hour;business/mission critical system down <30 minutes; ; Enterprise Support:General guidance <24 hours; system impaired <12 hours;production system impaired <4 hours;production system down <1 hour;business/mission critical system down <15 minutes; ; Unified Operations:Same as Enterprise support, except the response time when business/mission critical system goes down: AWS Unified Operations provides five-minute response for severity-5 cases raised with Incident Detection and Response.Resolution effectiveness depends on available context. Alarm onboarded workloads benefit from immediate access to comprehensive workload information,while non-onboarded workloads begin with service health data and customer-provided information.
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: Yes
• Online ticketing support accessibility: WCAG 2.2 AAA
• Phone support: Yes
• Phone support availability: 24 hours, 7 days a week
• Web chat support: Yes, at an extra cost
• Web chat support availability: 24 hours, 7 days a week
• Web chat support accessibility standard: WCAG 2.2 AAA
• Web chat accessibility testing: AWS conducts comprehensive accessibility testing through manual assistive technology testing, functional testing by people with disabilities, and automated evaluations. Accessibility specialists test the interface using screen readers (e.g., JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver), keyboard-only navigation, and voice recognition to help make our cloud computing accessible to everyone. This multi-layered testing approach operates throughout the development lifecycle, with results informing design improvements and status information in our Accessibility Conformance Reports (ACRs).
• Onsite support: Yes, at extra cost
• Support levels: AWS Support offers three comprehensive plans designed to accelerate your cloud operations: Business Support+, Enterprise Support, and Unified Operations. Each tier builds upon the previous with enhanced features, faster response times, and deeper expertise to match your evolving requirements. A comparison between the , Business Support+, Enterprise support plans is available on our Compare AWS Support Plans webpage (https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/compare-plans/). The table on that page compares the plans across many factors, including case severity/response times, access to architecture support, and account assistance.
• Support available to third parties: Yes
• AI chatbot: Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

• Getting started: AWS provides a range of resources to help customers get started on our services. These include comprehensive documentation (in multiple formats), introductory videos, hands-on labs, online and in-person training, access to a large network of partners and support from the public sector account team.
• Service documentation: Yes
• Documentation formats:
  • HTML
  • PDF
  • Other
• Other documentation formats: Kindle
• End-of-contract data extraction: AWS onboarding and offboarding documentation has been assessed against various internal and external accessibility standards, such as WCAG and EN 301 549. This helps determine compatibility with assistive technologies including screen readers (e.g., JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver) and support for keyboard-only navigation. An Accessibility Conformance Report for AWS Documentation is available for customers to download on-demand in AWS Artifact. The conformance report covers accessibility considerations such as semantic heading structure, logical tab order, visible focus indicators, use of color, and more. Documentation is available in multiple accessible formats including HTML, PDF, and ODF, providing users access onboarding and offboarding materials using their preferred assistive technologies. AWS reviews documentation accessibility through a combination of manual testing, functional testing with users who have disabilities, and automated accessibility scanning to verify the accessibility of documentation in the development lifecycle.
• End-of-contract process: Buyer may terminate the relationship with Supplier for any reason by (i) providing Supplier with notice and (ii) closing Buyer's account for all services for which Supplier provides an account closing mechanism. ; ; Buyers pay for the services they use to the point of account termination. Please see the AWS UK G-Cloud 14 Pricing Document affiliated with this service in the Digital Marketplace.; ; Customers retain control and ownership of their data. Supplier will not erase customer data for 30 days following an account termination. This allows customers to retrieve content from Supplier services so long as the customer has paid any charges for any post-termination use of the service offerings and all other amounts due.
• Documentation accessibility standard: WCAG 2.2 AA

Using the service

• Web browser interface: Yes
• Using the web interface: The AWS Management Console provides a simple web interface for Amazon Web Services. Users can log in with your AWS account name and password. If you’ve enabled AWS Multi-Factor Authentication, you will be prompted for your device’s authentication code. Almost all functionality for each of our services is exposed through the AWS Management Console. It facilitates management for all aspects of the AWS account in a consolidated view whilst providing access to all services and their respective functionalities. ; ; In some cases, specific configuration parameters of a service are dedicated to, and only available from, the AWS Command Line Interface, AWS SDK, or the API.
• Web interface accessibility standard: WCAG 2.2 AA
• Web interface accessibility testing: AWS conducts web interface (AWS Management Console) accessibility testing through a combination of manual, functional testing by people with disabilities, and automated evaluations. Accessibility specialists test the console using assistive technologies like screen readers (e.g.,JAWS,NVDA,VoiceOver), evaluate for keyboard-only navigation, and other assistive technologies. AWS provide 250+ Accessibility Conformance Reports for AWS-services, which demonstrate the degree to which our services conform to accessibility standards. All conformance reports are available for customers to download on-demand through AWS-Artifact. Please refer to these conformance reports for detailed information about AWS-service accessibility. AWS complements human testing with automated accessibility scanning to identify potential accessibility concerns
• API: Yes
• What users can and can't do using the API: For the full list of API operations please see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/appfabric/latest/api/Welcome.html
• API automation tools:
  • Ansible
  • Chef
  • SaltStack
  • Terraform
  • Puppet
  • Other
• Other API automation tools:
  • SDKs for Python
  • Ruby
  • PHP
  • .NET
  • Node.js
  • JavaScript
  • Java
• API documentation: Yes
• API documentation formats:
  • HTML
  • PDF
• Command line interface: Yes
• Command line interface compatibility:
  • Linux or Unix
  • Windows
  • MacOS
• Using the command line interface: AWS AppFabric uses the following command line interfaces:; AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) - A unified tool to manage your AWS services.; ; For full functionality please see:; https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/appfabric

Scaling

• Independence of resources: Customer environments are logically segregated to prevent users and customers from accessing resources not assigned to them.; ; Services which provide virtualized operational environments to customers (i.e. EC2) ensure that customers are segregated via security management processes/controls at the network and hypervisor level.; ; AWS continuously monitors service usage to protect infrastructure and support availability commitments/requirements. AWS maintains a capacity planning model to assess infrastructure usage and demands at least monthly, and usually more frequently. The AWS capacity planning model supports the planning of future demands to acquire and implement additional resources based on current resources and forecasted requirements.
• Usage notifications: Yes
• Usage reporting:
  • API
  • Email
  • SMS
  • Other
• Other usage reporting: AWS Service Quotas Automatic Quota Management:; AWS customers can receive notifications about quota usage through automatic quota management via the Service Quotas console or API.; For applicable services please see https://console.aws.amazon.com/servicequotas/home/amSettings; ; CloudWatch Service Limit and Quota Alarms: ; You can use CloudWatch to configure alarms that alert you when usage approaches service limits and quotas.; For applicable services please see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch-Quotas-Visualize-Alarms.html; ; AWS Trusted Advisor Service Limits Checks:; AWS Trusted Advisor can be used to set up notifications when service usage exceeds 80% of quota limits (requires Business or Enterprise Support plan).; For applicable services please see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awssupport/latest/user/service-limits.html
• Optimising consumption: Yes
• Automatic scaling: Yes

Analytics

• Infrastructure or application metrics: Yes
• Metrics types: Other
• Other metrics:
  • Data delivery latency metrics
  • Data ingestion volume metrics
  • Application authorization status metrics
  • Destination availability status metrics
  • End-to-end data processing delay metrics
• Reporting types:
  • API access
  • Real-time dashboards
• Resource tagging: Yes
• FOCUS resource tagging: Yes

Resellers

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

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
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • Other locations
• User control over data storage and processing locations: Yes
• Datacentre security standards: Supplier-defined controls
• Penetration testing frequency: At least every 6 months
• Penetration testing approach: Another external penetration testing organisation
• Protecting data at rest: Other
• Other data at rest protection approach: AWS adheres to independently validated privacy,data protection, security protections and control processes. These are listed under “standards and certifications”.; ; AWS is responsible for the security of the cloud; customers are responsible for security in the cloud. AWS enables customers to control their content (where it will be stored, how it will be secured in transit or at rest, how access to their AWS environment will be managed).; ; Wherever appropriate, AWS offers customers options to add additional security layers to data at rest, via scalable and efficient encryption features. AWS offers flexible key management options and dedicated hardware-based cryptographic key storage.
• Data sanitisation process: Yes
• Equipment disposal approach: In-house destruction process
• Data sanitisation type:
  • Deleted data can’t be directly accessed / Cryptographic Erasure
  • Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation / Secure Erase
  • Physical Destruction / Hardware containing data is completely destroyed

Backup and recovery

• Backup and recovery: No

Data-in-transit protection

• Data protection between buyer and supplier networks:
  • Private network or public sector network
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
  • Legacy SSL and TLS (under version 1.2)
  • Other
• Other protection between networks: Private network or public sector network; TLS (Version 1.2 or above); IPsec or TLS VPN gateway; Bonded fibre optic connections; Legacy SSL and TLS (under 1.2); Other
• Data protection within supplier network:
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
  • Legacy SSL and TLS (under version 1.2)
  • Other
• Other protection within supplier network: Customer environments are logically segregated to prevent users and customers from accessing resources not assigned to them. AWS gives customers ownership and control over their content by design through simple, but powerful tools that allow customers to determine how their content will be secured in transit.; ; AWS enables customers to open a secure, encrypted channel to AWS services using TLS/SSL, and/or IPsec or TLS VPN (if applicable), or other means of protection the customers wish to use.; API calls can be encrypted with TLS/SSL to maintain confidentiality; the AWS Console connection is encrypted with TLS.

Availability and resilience

• Guaranteed availability: AWS currently provides SLAs for several services. Due to the rapidly evolving nature of AWS’s product offerings, SLAs are best reviewed directly on our website via the link below: https://aws.amazon.com/legal/service-level-agreements/; ; Well-architected solutions on AWS that leverage AWS service SLAs and unique AWS capabilities such as multiple Availability Zones, can ease the burden of achieving specific SLA requirements. We encourage customers to visit our well architected documentation on our website, at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/reliability-pillar/appendix-a-designed-for-availability-for-select-aws-services.html
• Approach to resilience: The AWS Business Continuity plan details the process that AWS follows in the case of an outage, from detection to deactivation. AWS has developed a three-phased approach: Activation and Notification Phase, Recovery Phase, and Reconstitution Phase. This approach ensures that AWS performs system recovery and reconstitution efforts in a methodical sequence, maximizing the effectiveness of the recovery and reconstitution efforts and minimizing system outage time due to errors and omissions. ; ; AWS maintains a ubiquitous security control environment across all regions. Each data centre is built to physical, environmental, and security standards in an active-active configuration, employing an n+1 redundancy model, ensuring system availability in the event of component failure. Components (N) have at least one independent backup component. All data centres are online and serving traffic. In case of failure, there is sufficient capacity to enable traffic to be load-balanced to the remaining sites. ; ; Customers are responsible for implementing contingency planning, training and testing for their systems hosted on AWS. AWS provides customers with the capability to implement a robust continuity plan, including the frequent server instance back-ups, data redundancy replication, and the flexibility to place instances and store data within multiple geographic regions across multiple Availability Zones.
• Outage reporting: Public dashboard; personalised dashboard with API and events; configurable alerting (email/SMS/messaging)

Identity and authentication

• User authentication needed: Yes
• User authentication:
  • Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
  • Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
  • Username or password
  • Other
• Other user authentication: AWS’s Identity and Access Management (IAM) system allows you to control access to AWS services/resources. No actions are permissible without authentication. IAM facilitates the issuance of access permissions per user/group. MFA is available at no extra cost. AWS CloudTrail allows you to log, continuously monitor and retain events related to API calls across your AWS infrastructure.
• Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels: AWS IAM provides user access control to AWS services, APIs and specific resources. Other controls include time, originating IP address, SSL use, and whether users authenticated via Multi Factor Authentication devices. API calls to launch/terminate instances, change firewalls, and perform other functions are signed by customers’ Amazon Secret Access Key (either the root AWS Account’s Secret Access Key or the Secret Access key of a user created with IAM). API calls can be encrypted with TLS/SSL for confidentiality and customers can use TLS/SSL-protected API endpoints.
• Access restriction testing frequency: At least every 6 months
• Management access authentication:
  • Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
  • Other
• Description of management access authentication: AWS controls access to systems through authentication that requires a unique user ID and password. AWS systems don't allow actions to be performed without identification or authentication. Remote access requires multi-factor authentication. All remote administrative access attempts are logged and reviewed by the Security team for unauthorized attempts or suspicious activity. Incident response procedure is triggered in case of suspicious activity. AWS employs the concept of least privilege, allowing only the necessary access for users to accomplish their job. User access to AWS systems requires documented approval from authorized personnel.
• Devices users manage the service through: Dedicated device on a segregated network (providers own provision)

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: You control when users can access 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:
  • CSA CSM version 4.0
  • ISO/IEC 27001
  • Other
• Other security governance standards: ISO 27017, ISO27018, Cyber Essentials Plus, CSA CCM version 4.0, SOC1/2/3
• Information security policies and processes: AWS implements formal, documented policies and procedures that provide guidance for operations and information security within the organisation. Policies address purpose, scope, roles, responsibilities and management commitment. ; ; Employees maintain policies in a centralised and accessible location. AWS Security Assurance is responsible for familiarizing employees with the AWS security policies. ; ; AWS has established information security functions that are aligned with defined structure, reporting lines, and responsibilities. Leadership involvement provides clear direction and visible support for security initiatives. ; ; Policies are approved by AWS leadership at least annually or following a significant change to the AWS environment.

Operational security

• Configuration and change management standard: Supplier-defined controls
• Configuration and change management approach: Changes to AWS services and features follow secure software development practices, including security risk reviews prior to launch. Developer access to production environments is via explicit access system requests, subject to owner review and authorisation. ; ; Teams set bespoke change management standards per service, underpinned by standard AWS guidelines.; ; All production environment changes are reviewed, tested and approved. Stages include design, documentation, implementation (including rollback procedures), testing (non-production environment), peer to peer review (business impact/technical rigour/code), final approval by authorised party.; ; Emergency changes follow AWS incident response procedures. Exceptions to change management processes are documented and escalated to AWS management.
• Vulnerability management type: Supplier-defined controls
• Vulnerability management approach: AWS Security performs vulnerability scans on the host operating system, web applications, and databases in the AWS environment. Approved third party vendors conduct external assessments (minimum frequency: quarterly). Identified vulnerabilities are monitored and evaluated. Countermeasures are designed and implemented to neutralise known/newly identified vulnerabilities. ; ; AWS Security monitors newsfeeds/vendor sites for patches and receives customer intelligence via http://aws.amazon.com/security/vulnerability-reporting/.; ; Security and Compliance is a shared responsibility between AWS and the customer, and the customer must perform some of the vulnerability management process. See https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/shared-responsibility-model/ for more details.
• Protective monitoring type: Supplier-defined controls
• Protective monitoring approach: AWS deploys (pan-environmental) monitoring devices to collect information on unauthorized intrusion attempts, usage abuse, and network/application bandwidth-usage. Devices monitor:; ; • Port scanning attacks; • Usage (CPU, processes, disk utilization, swap rates, software-error generated losses); • Application metrics; • Unauthorized connection attempts; ; AWS security controls are reviewed by independent external auditors during audits for our SOC, PCI DSS and ISO 27001 compliance. ; ; Security and Compliance is a shared responsibility between AWS and the customer. See https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/shared-responsibility-model/ for more details.
• Incident management type: Supplier-defined controls
• Incident management approach: AWS adopts a three-phased approach to manage incidents:; ; 1. Activation and Notification Phase; 2. Recovery Phase ; 3. Reconstitution Phase ; ; To ensure the effectiveness of the AWS Incident Management plan, AWS conducts incident response testing, providing excellent coverage for the discovery of defects and failure modes as well as testing the systems for potential customer impact.; ; The Incident Response Test Plan is executed annually, in conjunction with the Incident Response plan. It includes multiple scenarios, potential vectors of attack, the inclusion of the systems integrator in reporting and coordination and varying reporting/detection avenues.
• Post-quantum cryptography secure: Yes

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 v4.0)

Separation between users

• Virtualisation technology used to keep applications and users sharing the same infrastructure apart: Yes
• Who implements virtualisation: Supplier
• Virtualisation technologies used: Other
• Other virtualisation technology used: AWS proprietary
• How shared infrastructure is kept separate: Customer environments are logically segregated, preventing users and customers from accessing unassigned resources. Customers maintain full control over their data access. Services which provide virtualized operational environments to customers, ensure that customers are segregated and prevent cross-tenant privilege escalation and information disclosure via hypervisors and instance isolation.

Energy efficiency

• Energy-efficient datacentres: Yes
• Description of energy efficient datacentres: By the end of 2025, AWS will complete third-party conformity assessment on our owned and operated data centres in Ireland, France, Germany, Spain and Sweden. AWS owned data centres in the UK are designed and operated according to similar design standards used for in-scope data centres of the third-party assessment. As such, we believe AWS owned data centres in the UK align with the best practices of the EU Code of Conduct (EU CoC). New servers purchased for AWS data centers in the European Union meet EU 2019/424 ("Lot 9") energy efficiency requirements, and all data center servers and storage products comply with the EU Ecodesign Directive (2009/125/EC). AWS has conducted energy efficiency audits since 2015 and has implemented certified Energy Management Systems (EnMS) in accordance with ISO 50001 standards in Europe. AWS also maintains ISO 14001 certification for environmental management across European data center locations, demonstrating systematic environmental performance management aligned with ISO 14001:2015 standards. AWS achieved 100% renewable energy match for global operations in 2023, seven years ahead of the 2030 target, while Field Engineering teams continuously drive improvement projects to improve energy efficiency and optimize capacity.

Pricing

• Discount for educational organisations: No
• Free trial available: Yes
• Description of free trial: Please see https://aws.amazon.com/free/
• Link to free trial: https://aws.amazon.com/free/

Discount

• Provide your minimum discount applicable to your baseline prices: 0%

Formula for calculating price of your services

• Formula for calculating price of your services:

  Which of the core deployment models you intend to offer

  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud

  Public Cloud - Formula for calculating price of your services

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  Total Cost

  The Total Cost for a buyer's call off requirement in a Public Cloud Deployment

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  Baseline Pricing

  Baseline pricing will provided as per the the vendors publicly available catalogue where available and included in the individual G-Cloud catalogue entries, examples include:; ; https://calculator.aws/#/; ; https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/pricing/calculator/; ; https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator

  Baseline Pricing - Web link

  https://calculator.aws/#/

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  Minimum Discounting

  0%

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  Onboarding Activity

  Onboarding costs may vary based on your specific requirements, please confirm with suppliers during the clarification process

  +

  Additional sources of cost

  Sources of costs that may relate to buyer's purchasing services under G-Cloud include:; - CPI or other inflationary increase; - Resource required for contract commencement, which is dependant on the size and requirement from the customer; - Increase supply chain costs to Softcat; - Vendor programmatic changes which affect discounts and purchases prices; - additional features / customisation required; - special considerations such as security; ; Our vendors pricing follows various models such as reoccurring subscription and consumption models, which have various charging models (usage, user) and are priced differently. Additional sources of cost depend on the model customers are purchasing from.

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  Additional sources of cost reduction

  There are a variety of different cost reduction sources Softcat can leverage for Buyers under G-Cloud 15, these include:; - Vendor discount programmes; - Reserved Instances; - Savings Plans; - OGVA; - MACC; - GCP PPA; - Volume and Bundling Discounts; - Contract Length Discounts; - Licensing Optimisation efforts; - Contract flexibility, minimising unused software costs.

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  Private Cloud - Formula for calculating price of your services

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  Total Cost

  The Total Cost for a buyer's call off requirement in a Private Cloud Deployment

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  Baseline Pricing

  Baseline pricing will provided as per the the vendors publicly available catalogue where available and included in the individual G-Cloud catalogue entries, examples include:; ; https://calculator.aws/#/; ; https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/pricing/calculator/; ; https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator

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  Minimum Discounting

  0%

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  Onboarding Activity

  Onboarding costs may vary based on your specific requirements, please confirm with suppliers during the clarification process

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  Additional sources of cost

  Sources of costs that may relate to buyer's purchasing services under G-Cloud include:; - CPI or other inflationary increase; - Resource required for contract commencement, which is dependant on the size and requirement from the customer; - Increase supply chain costs to Softcat; - Vendor programmatic changes which affect discounts and purchases prices; - additional features / customisation required; - special considerations such as security; ; Our vendors pricing follows various models such as reoccurring subscription and consumption models, which have various charging models (usage, user) and are priced differently. Additional sources of cost depend on the model customers are purchasing from.

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  Additional sources of cost reduction

  There are a variety of different cost reduction sources Softcat can leverage for Buyers under G-Cloud 15, these include:; - Vendor discount programmes; - Reserved Instances; - Savings Plans; - OGVA; - MACC; - GCP PPA; - Volume and Bundling Discounts; - Contract Length Discounts; - Licensing Optimisation efforts; - Contract flexibility, minimising unused software costs.

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• Total Cost: The Total Cost for a buyer's call off requirement in a Public Cloud Deployment
• Baseline Pricing: Baseline pricing will provided as per the the vendors publicly available catalogue where available and included in the individual G-Cloud catalogue entries, examples include:; ; https://calculator.aws/#/; ; https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/pricing/calculator/; ; https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator
• Baseline Pricing - Web link: https://calculator.aws/#/
• Minimum Discounting: 0%
• Onboarding Activity: Onboarding costs may vary based on your specific requirements, please confirm with suppliers during the clarification process
• Additional sources of cost: Sources of costs that may relate to buyer's purchasing services under G-Cloud include:; - CPI or other inflationary increase; - Resource required for contract commencement, which is dependant on the size and requirement from the customer; - Increase supply chain costs to Softcat; - Vendor programmatic changes which affect discounts and purchases prices; - additional features / customisation required; - special considerations such as security; ; Our vendors pricing follows various models such as reoccurring subscription and consumption models, which have various charging models (usage, user) and are priced differently. Additional sources of cost depend on the model customers are purchasing from.
• Additional sources of cost reduction: There are a variety of different cost reduction sources Softcat can leverage for Buyers under G-Cloud 15, these include:; - Vendor discount programmes; - Reserved Instances; - Savings Plans; - OGVA; - MACC; - GCP PPA; - Volume and Bundling Discounts; - Contract Length Discounts; - Licensing Optimisation efforts; - Contract flexibility, minimising unused software costs.
• Total Cost: The Total Cost for a buyer's call off requirement in a Private Cloud Deployment
• Baseline Pricing: Baseline pricing will provided as per the the vendors publicly available catalogue where available and included in the individual G-Cloud catalogue entries, examples include:; ; https://calculator.aws/#/; ; https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/pricing/calculator/; ; https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator
• Minimum Discounting: 0%
• Onboarding Activity: Onboarding costs may vary based on your specific requirements, please confirm with suppliers during the clarification process
• Additional sources of cost: Sources of costs that may relate to buyer's purchasing services under G-Cloud include:; - CPI or other inflationary increase; - Resource required for contract commencement, which is dependant on the size and requirement from the customer; - Increase supply chain costs to Softcat; - Vendor programmatic changes which affect discounts and purchases prices; - additional features / customisation required; - special considerations such as security; ; Our vendors pricing follows various models such as reoccurring subscription and consumption models, which have various charging models (usage, user) and are priced differently. Additional sources of cost depend on the model customers are purchasing from.
• Additional sources of cost reduction: There are a variety of different cost reduction sources Softcat can leverage for Buyers under G-Cloud 15, these include:; - Vendor discount programmes; - Reserved Instances; - Savings Plans; - OGVA; - MACC; - GCP PPA; - Volume and Bundling Discounts; - Contract Length Discounts; - Licensing Optimisation efforts; - Contract flexibility, minimising unused software costs.

Mandatory certifications

• Mandatory certifications:

  Are you are bidding to offer IaaS and/or PaaS as a reseller or are you in sole control of the infrastructure

  Reseller

  Cloud service suppliers you intend to resell with evidence

  Organisation 1

  Organisation name

  Microsoft

  Website address/upload for organisation

  Website address

  Website address

  https://marketplace.microsoft.com/en-GB/marketplace/partner-dir/c3d431f1-3e02-4c62-a825-79cd8f9e2053/overview

  Organisation 2

  Organisation name

  AWS

  Website address/upload for organisation

  Website address

  Website address

  https://partners.amazonaws.com/search/partners/?keyword=Softcat%20plc

  Organisation 3

  Organisation name

  Salesforce

  Website address/upload for organisation

  Upload

  Upload

  Provided

  Organisation 4

  Organisation name

  IBM

  Website address/upload for organisation

  Upload

  Upload

  Provided

  ISO 9001 certification

  Provided

  ISO 27001 certification

  Provided

  ISO 20000-1 certification

  Provided

  Are you reliant on the Cloud Service Provider for some accreditations

  Yes

Cyber Essentials

• Do you have a Cyber Essentials Plus certificate?: Yes
• Cyber Essentials Plus certificate Number: 181966c9-f0aa-42ed-9271-d1b111bdf43b

Non-mandatory Standards and certifications

• ISO 28000:2022 certification: No
• Quality management systems (QMS): Yes
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: Yes
• Who accredited the PCI DSS certification: SecurityMetrics
• PCI DSS accreditation date: Friday 10 January 2025
• What the PCI DSS doesn’t cover: N/A
• Other security certifications: Yes
• Any other security certifications:
  • ISO 27001
  • Security Standards dependant on the vendor solution

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 apprenticeships on the contract workforce in the relevant area that meet the criteria set out in MAC 1b
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • Delivery of apprenticeships, supported internships and T Level industry placement opportunities (Level 2, 3 and 4+) in relation 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 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 to identify opportunities to open up sub-contracts under the prime contract to a diverse range of businesses, including new businesses, entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs, VCSEs and mutuals
    • Plans for engaging a diverse range of businesses in engagement activities prior to appointing subcontractors (including activities prior to award of the main contract and during the contract term)
    • Ensuring accessibility to contracting and subcontracting opportunities for disabled business owners and employees
    • Support for community-led initiatives relevant to the contract. Illustrative examples: improving transport links; reducing loneliness; helping with English language proficiency; and facilitating social mixing among people with different backgrounds

  • 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
    • Creation of employment opportunities particularly for those who face barriers to employment, such as prison leavers, care leavers and/or who are located in deprived areas, and for people in industries with known skills shortages or in high growth sectors
    • 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
    • Offering a range of quality opportunities with routes of progression if appropriate, e.g. T Level industry placements, students supported into higher level apprenticeships.
    • Working conditions which promote an inclusive working environment and promote retention and progression
    • Other measures to provide equality of opportunity for disabled people and those with health conditions into employment, including becoming a Disability Confident employer and inclusion of supported businesses in the contract supply chain
    • 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
    • Other measures to offer development opportunities for the target cohort(s) in the contract workforce
    • Understanding of issues relating to entering the contract workforce
    • Creation of outreach activities to create a pipeline of employees for the future contract delivery
    • Content of the outreach activity is designed to suit the target cohort

  • 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

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• Service definition document

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• Terms and conditions

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