Avanade Sovereign Cloud
Our Avanade Sovereign Cloud service is a comprehensive suite of solutions designed to address the technical, legal, and regulatory requirements for highly regulated government customers. The offering is structured around three main cloud models (public, private and hybrid); each tailored to meet different sovereignty requirements and operational needs.
Features
- Sovereign Cloud Strategy & Vision
- Sovereign Cloud Design
- Sovereign Cloud Planning and Assessment
- Sovereign Cloud Build and Deployment
- Sovereign Cloud Migration Services
- Sovereign Cloud Managed Services
- Sovereign AI Platform and Framework
- Secure Modern Engineering
- Sovereign Cloud Governance
- Regulatory Compliance and Controls
Benefits
- Ensure and enforce compliance for regulators
- Provides data residency and controls
- Reduces operational risk and complexity
- Enables secure migration and transformation of workloads
- Supports business continuity and disaster recovery
- Delivers advanced security and encrpytion controls
- Offers disconnected (air gapped) deployment scenarios
- Provides unified management and operations across cloud deployment models.
- Validated architectures and patterns to accelerate delivery
- Provides transparency and immutablity for operations
Pricing
Service documents
Request an accessible format
Framework
G-Cloud 15
Service ID
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Contact
AVANADE UK LIMITED
Sangeeta Pierce
Telephone: 02070251000
Email: uk.hps.support@avanade.com
About your service
- Service categories
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IaaS
IaaS Compute
- Bare metal
- Container and serverless engine compute
- Arm-based instances
- Other non-x86 instances
Virtualised x86
- General purpose
- Compute optimised
- Memory optimised
Accelerated
- GPUs
- APUs
Service scope
- Service constraints
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Avanade manages the overall available capacity based on existing requirements to control infrastructure spend within the cloud service.
Our compliance programs require software and operating system vulnerability remediation as part of the service.
Vendor maintenance agreements are held and managed by Avanade. - System requirements
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- OS-licenses can be included however might incur additional costs
- Database and application licenses must be supplied by the client
- Any application remediation is a requirement on the client
- Client to provide network connectivity outside of public/private cloud
- Data hosting restrictions should be known prior to enabling service
- Cloud deployment model
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- Public cloud
- Private cloud
- Hybrid cloud
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Yes
- Support response times
- This would be dependent on the client requirements and agreed ‘response’ service level agreement (SLA). We operate a number of different bespoke SLA models across our client base.
- User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- Yes
- Online ticketing support accessibility
- WCAG 2.2 AA
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 24 hours, 7 days a week
- 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
- Avanade can develop and deploy chatbots powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) that can provide online web chat support (requirements dependent) at an additional cost. Avanade also utilise Microsoft Teams which can be another means of support but is reliant upon the customer also using a Microsoft Teams solution.
- Onsite support
- Yes, at extra cost
- Support levels
- Support services are flexible options available to our clients and can be agreed at the time of negotiation. We have three areas of contact: Email, Phone, and online self-service. This is a standard support service which is shared across multiple clients. Every organisation will have a technical account manager assigned. If you require dedicated support or support from specific locations, this will be at an extra cost.
- Support available to third parties
- Yes
- AI chatbot
- Yes
Onboarding and offboarding
- Getting started
- Avanade will provide the needed introductions to the Avanade Sovereign Cloud service by conducting introductory training sessions with designated personnel. This will be conducted virtually and provided guidance for additional supporting documentation online.
- Service documentation
- Yes
- Documentation formats
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- HTML
- End-of-contract data extraction
- Avanade has a comprehensive cloud migration service where we can assist in migrating the data from our service to a location of the client's choosing.
- End-of-contract process
- Avanade has formal contract exit process which we will agree with the client at the start of each contract, and continuously review during it's lifespan.
- Documentation accessibility standard
- WCAG 2.2 AA
Using the service
- Web browser interface
- Yes
- Using the web interface
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Microsoft provides a public facing web interface for Public Sovereign Cloud administration.
Avanade provisions a private facing web interface for Private Sovereign Cloud hosted on Azure Local. - Web interface accessibility standard
- WCAG 2.2 AA
- Web interface accessibility testing
- The web interfaces are based on Azure Public and Azure Local capabilities, an therefore any testing with assistive technologies will be documented by Microsoft.
- API
- Yes
- What users can and can't do using the API
- This will be as per Microsoft documentation for Aur Public and Azure Local clouds.
- API automation tools
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- Ansible
- Chef
- OpenStack
- SaltStack
- Terraform
- Puppet
- API documentation
- Yes
- API documentation formats
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- HTML
- Command line interface
- Yes
- Command line interface compatibility
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- Linux or Unix
- Windows
- Using the command line interface
- As per Microsoft documentation for Azure Public and Azure Local cloud
Scaling
- Independence of resources
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The private Sovereign Cloud is not a shared service service and therefore will not be affected by other users.
The Public Sovereign Cloud underlying performance is managed by Microsoft. Avanade will work woth the client to performance approapriate reservation of public resources as part of our ongoing managed service and governance. - Usage notifications
- Yes
- Usage reporting
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- SMS
- Optimising consumption
- Yes
- Automatic scaling
- Yes
Analytics
- Infrastructure or application metrics
- Yes
- Metrics types
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- CPU
- Disk
- Memory
- Network
- Number of active instances
- Reporting types
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- Real-time dashboards
- Regular reports
- Reports on request
- Resource tagging
- Yes
- FOCUS resource tagging
- Yes
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Reseller providing extra features and support
- Organisation whose services are being resold
- Microsoft, Equinix, Dell, HPE
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
- Yes
- 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
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- Physical access control, complying with CSA CCM v4.0
- Physical access control, complying with SSAE-18 / ISAE 3402
- 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
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- Deleted data can’t be directly accessed / Cryptographic Erasure
- Data Erasure
- Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation / Secure Erase
- Physical Destruction / Hardware containing data is completely destroyed
Backup and recovery
- What’s backed up
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- Files
- Virtual Machines
- Databases
- Archives
- Backup controls
- Standard schedules are pre-defined at server deployment based on workload type, and then adhoc requests are handled via ticket process to adjust the schedule.
- Datacentre setup
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- Multiple datacentres with disaster recovery
- Multiple datacentres
- Single datacentre with multiple copies
- Single datacentre
- Scheduling backups
- Users contact the support team to schedule backups
- Backup recovery
- Users contact the support team
- Backup and recovery
- Yes
- RPO/RTO
- Yes
Data-in-transit protection
- Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
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- 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)
- Data protection within supplier network
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- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
- IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
- Legacy SSL and TLS (under version 1.2)
Availability and resilience
- Guaranteed availability
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For infrastructure up-time running on the Private Sovereign cloud, Avanade will architect the solution to meet the client required availability and resilience targets.
For Public cloud, the client will need to refer to the Microsoft service description documentation (publicly available). Pulblic Cloud environment can be architected to meet client requirements.
Individual application and end-to-end service availability is subjected to the architecture and dependent services of those applications.
Service SLAs can be agreed in the contracting phase with Avanade. - Approach to resilience
- Available on request
- Outage reporting
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Monitoring alert on infrastructure and application failure output to ServiceNow and logs ticket;
Incidents raised by vendors/end-users in ServiceNow;
Email notifications to the identified stakeholders of the critical incidents;
Collaboration with client's major incident process, where available; Summary of outages in ServiceNow reports.
Identity and authentication
- User authentication needed
- Yes
- User authentication
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- Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
- Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
- Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
- Limited access network (for example PSN)
- Dedicated link (for example VPN)
- Username or password
- Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
- Access is restricted to the management interfaces both by network firewalls and role based restrictions.
- Access restriction testing frequency
- At least every 6 months
- Management access authentication
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- Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
- Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
- Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
- Limited access network (for example PSN)
- Dedicated link (for example VPN)
- Username or password
- Devices users manage the service through
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- Dedicated device on a segregated network (providers own provision)
- Dedicated device over multiple services or networks
- Any device but through a bastion host (a bastion host is a server that provides access to a private network from an external network such as the internet)
Audit information for users
- Access to user activity audit information
- Users contact the support team to get audit information
- How long user audit data is stored for
- At least 12 months
- 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
- Avanade aligns the security for the Sovereign Cloud Service to the policies of the client. Included within those policies are specific guidelines for identifying, reporting, and tracking security related tasks. This is then reviewed by an internal audit and compliance team, and audited by a third party annually.
Operational security
- Configuration and change management standard
- Supplier-defined controls
- Configuration and change management approach
- The ITIL based change management processes and procedures are managed at the infrastructure level and recommended to the application and business users leveraging the service. This process ensures specific reviews in the process for technical, business and service approvals throughout the process culminating in a change approval board approval.
- Vulnerability management type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Vulnerability management approach
- Avanade service leverages third party scanning tools to assist in identifying vulnerabilities within the environment. Scans are scheduled based on specific targeted services and results assessed based on risk and impact. Based on the assessment, the vulnerabilities identified are classified and scheduled for remediation depending on the risk.
- Protective monitoring type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Protective monitoring approach
- Protective monitoring starts with the Intrusion Detection Service, and flows through our service through several monitoring tools and processes in the service.
- Incident management type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Incident management approach
- Incident management is a process defined to ensure service is restored to a predefined standard of service. This is managed with the monitoring tools deployed as part of the service and leverages inputs from both Users as well as technology to maintain the standard service. Based on the severity of the incident, incident reports are provided with root cause analysis to the identified stakeholders.
- Post-quantum cryptography secure
- Yes
Secure development
- Approach to secure software development best practice
- Conforms to a recognised standard, but self-assessed
Separation between users
- Virtualisation technology used to keep applications and users sharing the same infrastructure apart
- Yes
- Who implements virtualisation
- Supplier
- Virtualisation technologies used
- Hyper-V
- How shared infrastructure is kept separate
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Avanade Private Sovereign Cloud is dedicated private infrastructure for each client, running in client data centres or other co-lo data centres.
Avanade Public Sovereign Cloud will run in a client dedicated Azure subscription and separated as per Microsoft documentation.
Energy efficiency
- Energy-efficient datacentres
- Yes
- Description of energy efficient datacentres
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Avanade has several global programs focused on energy conservation for the company. Our Public Cloud and Data Centre partners (Microsoft, Equinix) offer EU compliant efficient data centres to decrease the energy consumption and carbon footprint of digital infrastructure.
The as-a-service offering, delivers energy savings through a consumption-based IT model that is aligned to capacity usage.
Pricing
- Discount for educational organisations
- No
- Free trial available
- No
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
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Which of the core deployment models you intend to offer
- Public Cloud
- Private Cloud
Public Cloud - Formula for calculating price of your services
- Total Cost
- The Total Cost for a buyer's call off requirement in a Public Cloud Deployment
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- Baseline Pricing
- Basline pricing for Microsodt Azure Public Cloud services can be found through the clients agreed pricing agreement with Microsoft, or through the public Microsoft Azure pricing at the link provided.
- Baseline Pricing - Web link
- https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/
- -
- 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
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Additional sources of cost the buyer may incur will be due to (and not limited to):
- Unexpected increases in volumetrics
- Application and ISV software licensing impacts
- Increase consumption and un-managed costs in non-production environments from developers, testers etc.
- Increased costs from buyers other suppliers - -
- Additional sources of cost reduction
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Additional sources of cost reduction the buyer may benefit from are:
- Reduced volumetrics and consumption
- Efficiency gains passed on from our service
- Ability to modernise and consolidate
Private Cloud - Formula for calculating price of your services
- Total Cost
- The Total Cost for a buyer's call off requirement in a Private Cloud Deployment
- =
- Baseline Pricing
- Our baseline pricing will be determine on a customer-by-customer basis, and determined following initial discovery engagements and a clear and agreed understanding of requirements.
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- 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
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Additional sources of cost the buyer may incur will be due to (and not limited to):
- Unexpected increases in volumetrics
- Application and ISV software licensing impacts
- Increase consumption and un-managed costs in non-production environments from developers, testers etc.
- Increased costs from buyers other suppliers - -
- Additional sources of cost reduction
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Additional sources of cost reduction the buyer may benefit from are:
- Reduced volumetrics and consumption
- Efficiency gains passed on from our service
- Ability to modernise and consolidate
Mandatory certifications
- Mandatory certifications
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Are you are bidding to offer IaaS and/or PaaS as a reseller or are you in sole control of the infrastructure
ResellerCloud service suppliers you intend to resell with evidence
Organisation 1
Organisation name
EquinixWebsite address/upload for organisation
UploadUpload
ProvidedOrganisation 2
Organisation name
MicrosoftWebsite address/upload for organisation
UploadUpload
ProvidedISO 9001 certification
ProvidedISO 27001 certification
ProvidedISO 20000-1 certification
ProvidedAre 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
- 3df155b7-a6c9-4733-a8a6-02e57709f3b6
Non-mandatory Standards and certifications
- ISO 28000:2022 certification
- No
- Quality management systems (QMS)
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Other security certifications
- No
Social value
- Section B - Commitment for Future: Delivery
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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- How these flow down the supply chain and are monitored Illustrative examples include reporting, site visits, audits, etc.
- How to ensure business decisions re: price/cost, short lead times, payment timescales do not create modern slavery risks in the supply chain
- How the supplier will work with NGOs, trade unions or other businesses to address modern slavery risk
- Means of influencing staff, suppliers, customers, communities and/or any other appropriate stakeholders with respect to modern slavery risks relating to the contract
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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
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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)
- Activities that demonstrate a collaborative way to work with a diverse range of businesses as part of the supply chain
- Advertising of supply chain opportunities openly and to ensure they are accessible to a diverse range of businesses, including advertising all subcontracting opportunities on Contracts Finder
- Ensuring accessibility to contracting and subcontracting opportunities for disabled business owners and employees
- 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)
- Plans for positive actions with community groups.
- Measures for making facilities used in the delivery of the contract available for community groups, education or training
- Measures to engage users and communities and build relationships to increase community integration build trust and influence how the contract is delivered
- Plans to respond flexibly and adapt approaches to community engagement and initiatives
- 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
- Collaborating with anchor institutions and community groups to make facilities available for education, training or community events
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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
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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)
- Advertising, promotional and outreach activities designed to raise awareness of the offer to reach the target cohort
- 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
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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
- Advertising, promotional and outreach activities designed to raise awareness of the offer to reach the target cohort
- 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
- Advertising, promotional and outreach activities designed to raise awareness of the offer to reach the target cohort
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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
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