Aphari Ltd
Aphari Procurement Health Check
Aphari helps organisations transform their digital/technology operating model, adopt cloud services, establish system and service integration capabilities, and manage multi-supplier delivery. Our procurement health check service provides validation of the client's sourcing/commercial approach, applicable throughout the transformation/cloud migration lifecycle – from definition, procurement, and delivery to live service.
Features
- Validation of the proposed commercial approach to transformation/cloud service adoption
- Assessment of drivers, objectives, vision, desired outcomes and risks.
- Conducted by multi-disciplinary team, with extensive supply-side multi-sourced delivery experience.
- Holistic view joining up commercial, technical, service and related functions.
- Addresses specific concerns including parallel procurements and multi-supplier delivery.
- Covers legacy contract exit and transition management aspects, where appropriate.
- Assessment approach based on pragmatic application of public-domain best practices.
- Our framework includes MOP, MSP/PRINCE, COBIT, TOGAF, ITIL, CCS guidance.
- ‘Big IT’ experience yet independent of suppliers and large consultancies.
- Can combine with other Aphari services including Set-up, Accelerators etc.
Benefits
- Enables management control of technology transformation and cloud adoption programmes.
- Provides stakeholders with an independent, experienced, delivery-focused point of view.
- Enables the client to confirm strengths and address any weaknesses.
- Identifies key risks and issues based on 'real world' experience.
- Highlights cross-functional inter relationships, concerns and opportunities for improvements.
- Highlights specific commercial risks arising from multi-vendor/cloud delivery models.
- Recommends techniques and approaches for mitigating commercial risks.
- Aphari's assessment approach avoids lock-in to proprietary or 'branded' methodologies.
- Our experienced team speaks to stakeholders in their own language.
- Aphari provide techniques and knowledge to enhance client's architecture capability.
Pricing
£350 to £1,650 a unit a day
Service documents
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Framework
G-Cloud 14
Service ID
6 0 9 3 2 1 3 2 5 7 9 1 7 8 7
Contact
Aphari Ltd
Andrea Williams
Telephone: 07734 723044
Email: enquiries@aphari.com
Planning
- Planning service
- Yes
- How the planning service works
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Our procurement health check service provides validation of the proposed sourcing and commercial approach to cloud service adoption.
This service can be used at the planning stages of a cloud migration and transformation programme to ensure that the target cloud service architecture and operating model are appropriately represented in the cloud sourcing approach. The presented sourcing options will be validated to identify any technical, commercial and operational constraints that might impact the programme. A review of current risks, issues, and dependencies across programme functions and supplier responses will be undertaken to ensure that solutions remain integrated, deliverable and commercially viable. Finally, procurement specific activities can be assessed to confirm they remain aligned to programme objectives by evaluating the fitness of contract schedules, evaluation approaches and weighting and supplier responses. Cloud migration and multi-source programmes have an inherent exposure to risk due to the complexity of breaking apart IT estates and reconstructing them seamlessly, often having to provide a notably improved service, using building blocks provided by multiple suppliers. This service endeavours to preserve the desired outcomes of the programme and wider organisation by ensuring that client organisations can maximise their buying power and start transition/transformation on a firm footing. - Planning service works with specific services
- No
Training
- Training service provided
- No
Setup and migration
- Setup or migration service available
- Yes
- How the setup or migration service works
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Our procurement health check service provides validation of the proposed sourcing and commercial approach to transformation/cloud service adoption.
This service can be used at the sourcing and delivery stages of a transformation/cloud migration programme to validate that the target cloud service architecture and operating model remain integrated, deliverable and commercially viable. Procurement-specific activities can be assessed to confirm they remain aligned to programme objectives by evaluating the fitness of contract schedules, evaluation approaches and weighting and supplier responses.
Cloud migration and multi-source programmes have an inherent exposure to risk due to the complexity of breaking apart IT estates and reconstructing them seamlessly, often having to provide a notably improved service, using building blocks provided by multiple suppliers. This service endeavours to preserve the desired outcomes of the programme and wider organisation by ensuring that client organisations can maximise their buying power and start transition and transformation on a firm footing. This service is intended to ensure that the right things are bought in the right way. - Setup or migration service is for specific cloud services
- No
Quality assurance and performance testing
- Quality assurance and performance testing service
- Yes
- How the quality assurance and performance testing works
-
This service is designed to help clients transform their digital and technology operating model, adopt cloud services, establish system and service integration capabilities, and manage multi-supplier delivery.
A robust test function and test/QA processes is often a critical, but under-represented component of the operating model developed for digital and technology transformation/cloud migration programmes. Our procurement health check service can include assessment of the test and acceptance strategies, that will be needed to achieve operational acceptance into service, and how the appropriate requirements and obligations can be commercially flowed down to the suppliers involved in the programme.
Security testing
- Security services
- Yes
- Security services type
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- Security strategy
- Security risk management
- Security design
Ongoing support
- Ongoing support service
- No
Service scope
- Service constraints
- None
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Email or online ticketing
- Support response times
- We aim to respond to all queries regarding our services within 1 business day.
- User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- No
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
- Web chat support
- No
- Support levels
- Our support and account management arrangements for all our services includes the following: establishment of clear and agreed reporting lines; pairing our engagement lead with the appropriate client stakeholder; formal and regular reporting of our services provided. All our services are subject to a standard set of internal and customer-facing quality checks. Our directors take an active role in assurance and delivery of our services which ensures that we understand how we are performing against your requirements; and provides an escalation route in case any issues are encountered with our service provision.
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Not a reseller
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Other security clearance
- Government security clearance
- Up to Security Clearance (SC)
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- No
- ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Cyber essentials
- No
- Cyber essentials plus
- No
- Other security certifications
- No
Social Value
- Social Value
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Social Value
- Fighting climate change
- Covid-19 recovery
- Tackling economic inequality
- Equal opportunity
- Wellbeing
Fighting climate change
Our services help clients to achieve their transformation/cloud migration programmes more quickly. By adopting cloud services, our clients will typically be enabling energy-hungry and under-utilised legacy systems to be decommissioned, and so reduce the need for associated on-premise cooling systems. The transition to cloud services typically moves computing workloads to more efficient, higher utilised systems, hosted in modern facilities with reduced cooling requirements. Delivery of cloud migration programmes therefore delivers significant overall reduction in energy consumption. Our services help clients to deliver these benefits more quickly and with more certainty.
In addition, subject to client preferences, the majority of our services can be delivered remotely, significantly reducing the need for our team to travel to our client's premises, and the associated carbon footprint.Covid-19 recovery
Our services help clients to achieve their transformation/cloud migration programmes more quickly. In adopting cloud services, and moving applications and data from on-premise legacy systems to cloud-hosted solutions, our clients will typically be enabling these to be 'accessed from anywhere on any device'. By helping our clients to deliver such changes in a more timely and reliable fashion, we are enabling them to better support a wider variety of working styles including flexible working and remote working. These in turn have been shown to provide significant benefits to staff who are responding to the impact of the Covid pandemic on themselves and their teams.
Our own team is fully enabled to work flexibly and remotely, and a number of our consultants work part-time. We have the ability to flex workloads between our consultants as needed to adapt to the different constraints that have arisen during the pandemic. This is coupled with a strong ethos of collaborative working, which helps us support each other and our clients. Through our first-hand experiences of flexible working, we are able to provide real-world advice and guidance to clients who are making changes to their ways of working.Tackling economic inequality
Our services support innovation and adoption of new technologies, improved productivity, and better supply-chain relationships. As an independent consultancy, we have no ties to particular vendors or service providers. This means we are able to assess new service providers, new services and new technologies objectively and provide candid advise on the benefits and risks of their adoption. Furthermore, in bringing our 'supply-side' delivery expertise to our clients, and helping them to more clearly define their programme objectives, requirements, 'to-be' architectures and delivery management processes, we typically help to establish improved communications and relationships throughout the supply-chain.Equal opportunity
Our services help clients to achieve their transformation/cloud migration programmes more quickly. As part of our ethos, we take special care to ensure that end-users are not unfairly disadvantaged by the changes in technology which we help to deliver. As part of this we can provide support and guidance to our clients on ways to manage the impact of the programme upon the workforce, and to take into consideration those with particular needs. This may often include assistance with meeting occupational health requirements, management of technical issues related to maintaining or adding support for specialist end-user IT equipment, assistance and advice regarding individual training/skills enhancement needs, and support for wide scale training needs analysis. In all such matters, our service are provided in full support of the client's diversity and equality policies.Wellbeing
Our services help clients to achieve their transformation/cloud migration programmes more quickly. However, we understand that technology change programmes have a human aspect. An ill-defined, over-ambitious, or poorly-executed change programme can cause significant wellbeing issues, often arising from conflict and stress - both within and between teams. We believe that clear definition of programme objectives, requirements, solutions and delivery plan, coupled with senior stakeholder support, effective governance, and open communications, all help to orientate the project teams and supply-chain towards common and achievable goals. In turn, this fosters collaborative and supportive working relationships; which help the project teams and end-user community through the change lifecycle.
Pricing
- Price
- £350 to £1,650 a unit a day
- Discount for educational organisations
- No
Service documents
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