MICRO FOCUS SOFTWARE UK LTD

Micro Focus, now OpenText – Project and Portfolio Management

OpenText™ Project and Portfolio Management keeps your strategy and execution in sync. From big ideas to budgets and resources, its real-time visibility, integrated workflows, and advanced analytics help you plan smarter, pivot faster, and deliver what matters, without the chaos. FedRAMP certified, so your projects can move faster, with confidence.

Features

• Stakeholder aligned customisable dashboards
• Scenario planning what-if analysis for smarter decisions
• Resource and capacity management for demand alignment
• Financial planning and KPI tracking
• Automated and tailored workflows
• Enterprise scalability and governance
• Unified data and reporting
• Integrated work management

Benefits

• Security, peace of mind, and trust with FedRAMP certified PPM
• Fully aligned with scaled agile framework
• Enable digital transformation for optimal customer experience

• Free trial available

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

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Framework

G-Cloud 15

Service ID

649615111572905

Contact

Micro Focus, now OpenText - Public Sector Team
01635 211332
publicsectoruk@microfocus.com

About your service

• Service categories:

  Applications

  Enterprise resource management

  • Project and portfolio management
• Multi cloud support: Yes

Service scope

• Software add-on or extension: No
• Cloud deployment model: Private cloud
• Service constraints: No
• System requirements:
  • Internet Access
  • Web Browser

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Yes
• Support response times: 24 hours turn-a-round for standard support queries.; Better times available at request.
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: Yes
• Online ticketing support accessibility: None or don’t know
• Phone support: Yes
• Phone support availability: 24 hours, 7 days a week
• Web chat support: No
• Onsite support: No
• Support levels: Standard Support: Self Service & Outreach. Free. ; Enterprise Support: Customer Success Manager & Solutions Expert Team. Upgrade review meetings. Yearly Service Reviews. Focus on Adoption. £20000 Annually. ; Premier Support: Named Customer Success Manager.; Named Solutions Expert. Managed upgrades with choice of date & project manager. Comprehensive upgrade planning. Quarterly service reviews. Relationship-based services. Incident and crisis management. £75000 annually.; Standard support 24 x 7 FlexCare support available at additional cost. This can be used to align additional resources such as a Technical Account Manager, Named Advance Support Engineer or pre-paid points to provide additional onsite or remote support
• Support available to third parties: Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

• Getting started: Training & education available through separate Micro Focus G-Cloud offering. Provides live virtual and/or onsite classrooms at cost. Extensive user documentation and help website. https://admhelp.microfocus.com/main/Content/AdmHelpCenter.htm
• Service documentation: Yes
• Documentation formats:
  • HTML
  • PDF
• End-of-contract data extraction: Request export via support ticket. Data made available on secure FTP.
• End-of-contract process: Data export included in cost. Usage and other metrics dependent on support level.
• Documentation accessibility standard: WCAG 2.2 AA

Using the service

• Web browser interface: Yes
• Supported browsers:
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
• Application to install: No
• Designed for use on mobile devices: No
• Service interface: Yes
• User support accessibility: WCAG 2.2 AA
• Description of service interface: OpenText provides a dedicated My Support Portal where customers—including SaaS users—can:; Submit and track support cases (incidents) through a self-service dashboard; View contracts, licenses, invoices, and other account details; Access knowledge base articles, product documentation, and community forums; For SaaS-specific applications, you can also:; Leverage MyAccount ; Subscribe to incident and maintenance notifications, and; Track real-time updates on any service disruptions and their resolutions
• Accessibility standards: WCAG 2.2 AA
• Accessibility testing: OpenText develops Accessibility Conformance Reports (ACRs)—including VPATs based on WCAG 2.0/2.1 (Levels A & AA), Section 508, AODA, CVAA, EN 301 549, and more—covering both products and services. ; These reports are available upon request, demonstrating compliance efforts across the OpenText ecosystem.
• API: Yes
• What users can and can't do using the API: Allow the creation of applications which access the features or data of the Application Delivery Management applications. Referral to the API architecture documents. Example: ; Site Administration REST API Reference
• API documentation: Yes
• API documentation formats:
  • Open API (also known as Swagger)
  • HTML
  • PDF
• API sandbox or test environment: No
• Customisation available: Yes
• Description of customisation: Adding custom code ; There are business rules and flows that can be developed and/or edited

Scaling

• Independence of resources: Load balancing. Redundant architecture. 24/7 monitoring team.

Analytics

• Service usage metrics: Yes
• Metrics types: Utilisation, users, plus reports on request
• Resource tagging: No
• FOCUS resource tagging: No

Resellers

• Supplier type: Not a reseller

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Other security clearance
• Government security clearance: Developed Vetting (DV)

Asset protection

• Knowledge of data storage and processing locations: Yes
• Data storage and processing locations: European Economic Area (EEA)
• User control over data storage and processing locations: No
• Datacentre security standards: Supplier-defined controls
• Penetration testing frequency: At least once a year
• Penetration testing approach: In-house
• Protecting data at rest:
  • Encryption of all physical media
  • Other
• Other data at rest protection approach: Data in encrypted at rest using 3PAR SED, FIPS 140/2 compliant drives
• Data sanitisation process: No
• Equipment disposal approach: Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v4.0, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001

Data importing and exporting

• Data export approach: Raise a support ticket
• Data export formats:
  • CSV
  • Other
• Other data export formats:
  • PDF
  • XLS
• Data import formats: CSV

Data-in-transit protection

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

Availability and resilience

• Guaranteed availability: 99.5%
• Approach to resilience: AWS delivered datacentres
• Outage reporting: OpenText reports outages primarily through its public status page, which shows real‑time service health, incident history, and maintenance updates. Users can also subscribe for automated outage notifications (email/SMS) directly from the status page. In addition, the portal provides in‑app notifications for service degradation and issues.

Identity and authentication

• User authentication needed: Yes
• User authentication: Other
• Other user authentication: Customer domain credentials ; ; Application password protection
• Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels: Customer RBAC defined and governed
• Access restriction testing frequency: At least once a year
• Management access authentication:
  • Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
  • Username or password

Audit information for users

• Access to user activity audit information: No audit information available
• Access to supplier activity audit information: No audit information available
• How long system logs are stored for: Between 6 months and 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
• Information security policies and processes: Cyber Essentials; Cyber Essentials Plus; ISO27001; ISO9001
• Software Security Code of Practice: Yes

Operational security

• Configuration and change management standard: Complies with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v4.0 or SSAE-18 / ISAE 3402
• Configuration and change management approach: All non routine changes go through change control requiring approval and verification post implementation
• Vulnerability management type: Supplier-defined controls
• Vulnerability management approach: Monthly Qualys scans, risk assessment based on findings for remediation
• Protective monitoring type: Supplier-defined controls
• Protective monitoring approach: Sitescope plus other monitoring services. Respond in real time via 24/7 monitoring team
• Incident management type: Complies with a recognised standard, for example, CSA CCM v4.0 or ISO/IEC 27035:2011 or SSAE-18 / ISAE 3402
• Incident management approach: Follows industries standards and complies with all contractual terms. Users report incidents by phone or by raising a support ticket. Incident reports are mailed out to user base.
• Post-quantum cryptography secure: No

Secure development

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

Public sector networks

• Connection to public sector networks: Yes
• Connected networks: Other
• Other public sector networks: Connection via defined and governed ports

Pricing

• Discount for educational organisations: No
• Free trial available: Yes
• Description of free trial: Free trials available on request for a time limited service

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

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

Non-mandatory Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: Yes
• Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001: Schellman Compliance LLC
• ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date: Thursday 19 October 2023
• What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover: N/A
• ISO 28000:2022 certification: No
• ISO 9001 certification: Yes
• Who accredited the ISO 9001 certification: BSI
• ISO 9001 accreditation date: Monday 16 September 2024
• What the ISO 9001 doesn’t cover: Covers Micro Focus and third party products
• Quality management systems (QMS): Yes
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: No
• Cyber essentials: Yes
• Please provide your Cyber Essentials Certificate Number: 9f1e8839-f0ab-44cc-98aa-1408d5908fee
• Cyber essentials plus: Yes
• Please provide your Cyber Essentials Plus Certificate Number: C34856e3-6b12-40a0-bd04-30ed2389c41c
• Other security certifications: No

Social value

• Section B - Commitment for Future: Delivery:

  • Mission: Kick start economic growth. To secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 - with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.

    Policy Outcome 1: Fair work: That offers fair wages and good working conditions. Help people get a job, stay in work, and progress in their careers, with good employment opportunities across the country. Notes: Where there is a large proportion of labour costs in the contract, commercial teams should consider MAC in Outcome 1 as a priority

    • New or retained jobs on the contract workforce in the relevant area that meet the criteria set out in MAC 1b, 1c and 1d
    • 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
    • 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
    • Payment of more than the National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage (as appropriate) to the contract workforce
    • 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
    • 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.

    • 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
    • Understanding of local demographics, needs and opportunities for the co-design of the goods, services and works to be delivered under the contract
    • Plans for positive actions with community groups.

  • 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
    • 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)
    • 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

  • 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
    • 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

  • 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
    • Actions to invest in the physical and mental health and wellbeing of the contract workforce

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at publicsectoruk@microfocus.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.