Moorhouse Consulting
Cloud Capability & Maturity Assessment
We assess readiness for cloud services, evaluating the impact across people, processes, and technology. This identifies investment targets, ensuring they have the necessary capabilities to achieve their goals. Our approach covers operational capabilities, cloud solutions, infrastructure, data governance, and digital skills. Additionally, we offer industry benchmark comparisons and actionable roadmaps.
Features
- Tailored assessment approach addressing strategy, technology, execution, people, innovation
- Bespoke questions and maturity criteria provide visibility into cloud maturity
- Insight into maturity of cloud adoption and performance against market
- Recommendations on actions to help address problem areas
- Roadmap for short, medium and long term wins
- Clear understanding of digital strengths, weaknesses and priority change areas
- Design of the target state for the digital operating model
- Recommendations in relation to digital strategy and future operating model
- Advisory input into formulation of digital vision and roadmap
Benefits
- Improved delivery outcomes and greater insight into cloud effectiveness
- Agnostic flexible approach of cloud deployment, service or support models
- End-to-end analysis across vision, strategy, operations, people, processes and technology
- Clarity on cloud technology risks and how to control these
- Insight into cloud maturity levels across capabilities, teams, and staff
- Identification of opportunities for cost optimisation and areas of improvement
- Areas for ‘digitisation’ and adoption of cloud identified and prioritised
- Seamless transition from maturity assessment to strategy and roadmap development
- Increased readiness for cloud services implementation
- Increased transparency into costs and benefits of migrating to cloud
Pricing
£325 to £2,100 a unit a day
- Education pricing available
Service documents
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Framework
G-Cloud 14
Service ID
6 3 1 5 8 2 9 9 2 7 2 3 9 2 3
Contact
Moorhouse Consulting
Jon Russell
Telephone: +44 (0) 203 004 4482
Email: GPS-BD@moorhouseconsulting.com
Planning
- Planning service
- Yes
- How the planning service works
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We are experts in performing digital maturity assessments, developing digital operating models and helping our clients design and implement ‘future-proofed’ capabilities that help deliver strategic goals.
Through our assessments we help organisations make decisions about new cloud solutions, assess performance of their capabilities, perform costs and benefits analysis, and identify potential opportunities to utilise cloud services.
The Cloud Assessment provides a review of the client's technology and services landscape, and the capability to move towards cloud. The assessment covers key areas across organisation, processes, tools that are required to change in order to migrate to and manage cloud services.
We support our clients in planning for implementing cloud services by helping them:
• Understand the maturity of your digital capabilities, strategy, culture, organisation and infrastructure.
• Assess the extent to which your digital capabilities align to and enable the wider organisational strategy.
• Make recommendations about how to improve the maturity and effectiveness of your digital operating model.
• Develop a roadmap of initiatives and activities to implement these recommendations. - Planning service works with specific services
- No
Training
- Training service provided
- Yes
- How the training service works
-
Moorhouse has access to specialised security capabilities via its parent company Expleo. Expleo provides Threat Simulation and Security Training packages that can be tailored to cloud environments. These can include tabletop exercises and full simulations of different attack types from a number of adversaries, followed by a detailed post-scenario breakdown to establish key learning points and guide the preparation of very tailored and effective training material.
Due to the specificity of training to industry and client contexts, we have found it to be effective for clients to utilise their incident response playbooks and enhance them based on the results. - Training is tied to specific services
- No
Setup and migration
- Setup or migration service available
- No
Quality assurance and performance testing
- Quality assurance and performance testing service
- No
Security testing
- Security services
- Yes
- Security services type
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- Security strategy
- Security risk management
- Security design
- Cyber security consultancy
- Security testing
- Security incident management
- Security audit services
- Certified security testers
- Yes
- Security testing certifications
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- CHECK
- CREST
- Other
- Other security testing certifications
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- GIAC Cloud Penetration Tester
- OSCP (Offensive Security Certified Professional)
- OSED (Offensive Security Exploit Developer)
- OSEP (Offensive Security Experienced Penetration Tester)
- CREST CPSA
- CREST CPTIA
Ongoing support
- Ongoing support service
- Yes
- Types of service supported
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- Buyer hosting or software
- Hosting or software provided by a third-party organisation
- How the support service works
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Moorhouse has access to specialised security capabilities via its parent company Expleo. Expleo provide management services for cloud infrastructure including setup, scaling and maintenance of cloud environments and tailor solutions to meet specific client needs, whilst ensuring environments are designed and deployed with a security focus from the beginning, utilising the expertise of our cyber security architects and engineers.
We conduct thorough security assessments and audits to identify vulnerabilities within cloud infrastructure. This includes penetration testing, vulnerability scans and reviews of security policies and configurations to ensure enviornments meet the highest security standards.
We assist clients in achieving and maintaining compliance with relevant regulatory standards such as GDPR, SOC 2 and ISO 27001. Our services include compliance assessments, ongoing monitoring and design/implementation of appropriate controls to ensure that environments meet regulatory and industry-specific requirements.
Another of our offerings is cost management and optimisation, utilising effective cost analysis and resource management stratefies to select appropriate service models and configurations, avoiding unecessary costs and improving efficiency.
Finally, we are capable of providing ongoing support and maintenance of various cloud environments, ensuring that they remain updated and running efficiently, troubleshooting and proactive monitoring to quickly address issues and maintain optimal performance.
Service scope
- Service constraints
- No constraints
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- No
- Phone support
- No
- Web chat support
- No
- Support levels
- N/A
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Not a reseller
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Other security clearance
- Government security clearance
- Up to Developed Vetting (DV)
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
- NQA
- ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
- 07/02/2024
- What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
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8.04 Access to Source Code;
8.11 Data Masking;
8.25 Secure development life cycle;
8.27 Secure system architecture and engineering principles;
8.28 Secure coding;
8.30 Outsourced Development - ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Cyber essentials
- Yes
- Cyber essentials plus
- Yes
- 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
As a B-Corp, social and environmental responsibility is at our core. This is evident in our ISO14001 certification and Environmental Management System (EMS), guiding sustainable practices across procurement, operations, and client services. Dedicated to achieving Net Zero by 2040, demonstrated in our published Carbon Reduction Plan, we are committed to reducing tCO2e intensity by FTE employee from 1.1tCO2e (21/22) to 0.5 tCO2e by 2027.
Our office has a zero waste to landfill strategy and is supplied by renewable electricity. In a few years, Dashwood House will become one of the first office buildings in London to have an air source heat pump providing renewable heating.
To encourage our staff to improve our environmental impact, we:
- Provide reusable water bottles to prevent plastic consumption.
- Eliminate single-use items in the staff kitchen.
- Use a stationery supplier who ensures goods are supplied in reusable containers.
- Source local catering suppliers providing food in reusable boxes, delivered on bike.
- Introduced a pre-tax EV programme.
To further reduce our carbon emissions, we hope to implement further measures throughout the contract such as:
- Supporting the transition to green tariffs at home for our employees.
- Investigating lower carbon options with our pension provider.
- PAS2060 compliance of our carbon reduction efforts.
For each contract, we assess and mitigate environmental impacts. We offer support in developing/enhancing clients' EMS as a value-added service. Additionally, we promote environmental protection and improvement through:
- Educational events in our ‘BREEAM certified Excellent’ office.
- Participation in/attendance of global and national events, e.g., Sustainability Week, COP28.
- Developing project environmental impact reports, shared with client, including reporting and lessons learned.
- Reviewing our Environmental Risk Assessment and EMS every three months, to monitor, measure and report progress, sharing environmental opportunities for implementation.Covid-19 recovery
To support people struggling to access work, including those left unemployed by COVID-19, we put in place an Apprenticeships and Skills Development Policy that offers roles in our Business Support team. This is supported by our partnership with Resurgo, a charity helping young people facing barriers into sustainable employment, who have supported our recruitment for the business support team. We are exploring partners to collaborate with for new Digital & Data apprenticeships to provide employment opportunities for young people from disadvantaged or underrepresented communities. We commit to using these new joiners throughout this contract.
From 2020–2023 we partnered with the charity School of Hard Knocks (SoHK) offering pro-bono support. We ran mock interview panels, CV reviews and fundraising initiatives to encourage those facing barriers, including COVID-19, back into employment. In 2023, we launched a new charity partnership with Power2. Moorhouse employees will mentor young adults aged 18-25, recipients of a bursary, to develop their self-confidence, make the most of their studies and build professional network to assist them in pursuing their chosen career. We make sure to incorporate group in person sessions to help rebuild the social relationship aspect that was lost during covid.
We will support our workforce throughout this contract by providing:
- Weekly all-organisation keep-in-touch (KIT) calls.
- A 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) and help line to support our staff without using NHS services.
- A comprehensive health insurance package, reducing our employees’ demand on the NHS.
- Training 18 mental health first aiders across our business, making them available to our clients too.
To improve our workplace conditions throughout this contract, we will provide:
- Organisation funded workstation equipment to make sure we could work safely remotely.
- A cycle to work scheme to encourage alternative sustainable transport options into the office where appropriate.Tackling economic inequality
As a B-Corp, we are dedicated to providing safe, fair, and equal opportunities, while supporting our people and communities. We commit to agreeing a framework, metrics and plan within four weeks following contract award, against which we will agree commitments at contract and/or call-off levels where appropriate.
We can:
- Share our list of SMEs and VSCEs, proactively identifying opportunities for engagement.
- Partner with SMEs and VSCEs where appropriate.
- Work with you to understand your local supplier community for potential business opportunities.
- Offer spaces on our award-nominated Academy courses to those who have identified skills and knowledge gaps.
- Support individuals in your business with training for recognised qualifications (MSP, Scrum Master, PRINCE2, Lean Six Sigma).
- Implement a continuous training and capability development plan throughout contracts.
- Explore working with our charity partner, Power2, for mentoring opportunities and career advice to communities in which you operate who face barriers to education and/or employment.
- Support you to take advantage of innovative technologies and methodologies to automate tasks and make operations more efficient.
Moorhouse is exploring partners to collaborate with for Digital & Data apprenticeships to provide employment opportunities for young people from disadvantaged or underrepresented communities. We commit to using these new joiners throughout this contract.
We have reviewed diversity across 80% of our supply chain, with our Responsible Business Squad leading the review of the remainder over the next year. We will also develop a supply chain survey to review diversity, inclusion, sustainability and environmental impact, and SME status.
In 2024, we are looking to:
- Introduce subsidised pricing for NfPs to help drive social impact and build a more inclusive culture.
- Increase our pro bono support.
- Provide allocated time for our people to take part in volunteering activities that benefit our communities.Equal opportunity
Equality of opportunity for all our staff is underpinned by our Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (ED&I) strategy. Overseen by our ED&I steering group, they measure the outcomes and impacts of activities. Some specific initiatives to help build an inclusive workplace culture include:
- Equal pay employer: We pay the same to all individuals at each grade and are transparent about salaries. There are no differences due to gender, disabilities, etc. We monitor this annually, conducting salary benchmarking to ensure fairness.
- Recruitment: We review templates and processes regularly, alongside unconscious bias training. We are exploring partners to collaborate with for Digital & Data apprenticeships to provide employment opportunities for young people from disadvantaged or underrepresented communities. We commit to using these new joiners throughout this contract.
- Accessibility: Our recruitment approach considers barriers faced by people with disabilities by ensuring our website is accessible to candidates (e.g., layout and visual clarity. We provide inclusive facilities with a dedicated disabled bathroom and an induction loop.
- Training: Moorhouse invests eight times industry average on training and development. We will agree individual development plans, capturing accessibility requirements, which could include formal qualifications.
- Staff surveys: We use the ‘Great Place To Work’ survey to identify inclusion needs and develop action plans to address them.
- ED&I events: We run regular events to increase employee’s awareness and understanding of ED&I.
- Support for women in leadership: we provide coaching to encourage women to progress to senior leadership positions and have engaged RADA to run several “executive presence for women” training sessions.
- The Moorhouse Academy: an award-nominated training programme offered to our clients for free.
- Ethical: We have Anti Modern Slavery training in place to teach our people what to look for and how to report any suspicionsWellbeing
We have a comprehensive Employee Value Proposition looking after our employees from a health and wellbeing perspective, and a renumeration perspective, and is a key part of our B-Corp certification. We have clear policies, as well as a Health & Wellbeing team, to support our workforce. They continually review and improve our approach, keeping conversations live, supporting the sharing of best practice and new ideas across the business and with clients. We use surveys to identify what works well and generate plans to address what needs to change.
We provide access for staff to:
- Certified Mental Health First Aiders (for confidential support. Also available to our clients). We have 20+ certified individuals, providing support on a 1:15 ratio.
- An Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) with 24/7 access to qualified therapists.
- Comprehensive private health and life insurance, including health and wellbeing incentives such as 50% off a gym membership.
We hold clear conversations with our clients about prioritising health and wellbeing of both Moorhouse and client teams, empowering the right to switch off. The delivery of this message is proliferated at all levels of the business and there are several routes to support staff on intensive projects. We also work closely with our charity partner, Power2, across a range of initiatives aimed at developing and supporting the young people in their programme. All their programmes work to provide young people with the knowledge, tools and confidence to identify, manage and improve their social, emotional and mental wellbeing.
Pricing
- Price
- £325 to £2,100 a unit a day
- Discount for educational organisations
- Yes
Service documents
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