Civica UK Limited

Civica Cx Asset Management

Civica Asset Management is a complete Property Asset Management system helping organisations manage their property assets efficiently and meeting compliance. It’s in the cloud allowing teams to work from any location, incorporating Asset Management, Asbestos, Compliance, Repairs Planning, Energy HHSRS and Mobile Surveying, effectively managing Asbestos, Fire Risk and Legionella.

Features

• Fully web based Asset Management system accessible anywhere
• Complete property asset management solution
• Manages compliance and risk effectively
• Mobile surveying via mobile tablets
• Manages Gas Servicing and Gas Safe certification
• Maintenance cost projections using partial data to enable budgeting
• Housing quality standard compliance assessments
• Support for production of Energy Performance certificates
• User-defined financial stock viability modelling
• Management and visibility of planned work programmes

Benefits

• Survey properties using mobile devices
• Improve efficiency of Asset Management
• Manage maintenance programmes efficiently
• Effective business planning through maintenance cost projections
• Ease of data load through Excel-based bulk data import/export
• Supports Financial sustainability modelling - user-defined models/NPV
• Manages compliance through risk management, fire, asbestos & legionella

£3,100 a licence a month

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

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Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

674777037173025

Contact

Civica UK Limited
+44 (0) 3333 214 914
g-cloud@civica.co.uk

Service scope

• Software add-on or extension: No
• Cloud deployment model: Public cloud
• Service constraints: Some down time is required for scheduled maintenance and upgrades.
• System requirements: None

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Email or online ticketing
• Support response times: Support issues can be submitted 24 hours by email and portal. Telephone support is 08.00am to 06.00pm Monday to Fridays excluding English Bank Holidays.; ; Outside of support hours, users can log incidents or service requests 24-7 via a web portal for the Civica Service Desk. Users are also able to monitor the progress of their cases through the portal.
• 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
• Onsite support: Yes, at extra cost
• Support levels: Civica will respond to application related incidents as below and will take all reasonable steps to achieve a resolution within target timescales. Civica will respond to incidents relating to availability of cloud services in an accelerated timeframe:; Level 1 - 30mins - 1 working day; Level 2 - 1 hour - 5 working days; Level 3 - 2 working hours - 30 working days; Level 4 - 2 working hours - 60 working days; ; Support levels are included in the pricing
• Support available to third parties: No

Onboarding and offboarding

• Getting started: On-Boarding; Key stages in the on-boarding process comprise the following, managed under Civica’s Project Management Methodology which is based on PRINCE2.; • Customer completes standard registration/order; • Customer provides file containing user profiles for loading; • Customer provides data files for loading; • User interface configuration requirements agreed; • System installation time is based on number of users, data ingestion and connectivity. Specific configuration and integration requirements to be agreed with the customer following installation; • Implementation costs and timescales finalised based on configuration requirements; • Specification for any dedicated communication links agreed and plan provided; • Training given to customer staff; • Service commencement; • Post-commencement project meeting(s); ; Off-Boarding; Customers must provide 3 months’ notice of termination. Following completion of a service termination form an exit plan will be agreed including data extract arrangements.; Data can be extracted in agreed formats. Data volumes over 50GB will require an individual extraction plan including agreement on extract media.; ; After contract termination all live client data will be deleted. All customer specific backups will be destroyed. There is an additional charge for providing individual backup services.
• Service documentation: Yes
• Documentation formats: HTML
• End-of-contract data extraction: Documentation is in electronic format held as HTML5 documentation in the application. Once access is given to the application all documentation is available to assist in the onboarding and offboarding of the system.; ; The help is contextual and will automatically present the relevant topics based on what a user is currently doing within the system.
• End-of-contract process: Customers must provide 3 months’ notice of termination. Following completion of a service termination form an exit plan will be agreed including data extract arrangements.; ; After data is extracted and contract termination all live client data will be deleted. All customer specific backups will be destroyed. There is an additional charge for providing individual backup services.

Using the service

• Web browser interface: Yes
• Supported browsers:
  • Internet Explorer 11
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Safari
  • Opera
• Application to install: No
• Designed for use on mobile devices: Yes
• Differences between the mobile and desktop service: All the functionality that is provided on desktop service is available on mobile devices.
• Service interface: No
• User support accessibility: WCAG 2.1 AA or EN 301 549
• API: Yes
• What users can and can't do using the API: Each module within the system is accompanied by a comprehensive web service API. The API provides the ability to both retrieve data and to update/create entities within the system.; ; Users are required to log into the API and restrictions are based on the role assignment a given user has been granted through the application.
• API documentation: Yes
• API documentation formats:
  • Open API (also known as Swagger)
  • PDF
• API sandbox or test environment: Yes
• Customisation available: Yes
• Description of customisation: Customers have a range of modules that they can select to meet their individual business requirements. Each module is parameterised and can be configured to meet customer’s needs. Consultancy services are available from the vendor to configure the system and users can configure and reconfigure the system to meet their changing business requirements.

Scaling

• Independence of resources: Civica Cx Asset Management utilises a combination of IAAS and PAAS Microsoft Azure cloud.; ; IaaS is dedicated to each customer. We can dynamically scale the infrastructure and an Azure load balancer can also be utilised where required.; ; Azure SQL Database elastic pools are used for the solution which enable management and scaling of multiple databases having varying and unpredictable usage demands. Elastic pools enable us to optimize the performance for a group of databases and deliver performance elasticity for each pool. Civica monitor the performance metrics of the pool, and scales it to a higher performance level if required.

Analytics

• Service usage metrics: Yes
• Metrics types: The customer facing elements of the solution can use Google Analytics to measure and report on service metrics. The headers and footers are customisable allowing customers to embed customer specific Google Analytics tags within these components during the configuration stage which will therefore provide full Google Analytics capabilities.
• Reporting types: Real-time dashboards

Resellers

• Supplier type: Not a reseller

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Other security clearance
• Government security clearance: Up to 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: No
• Datacentre security standards: Supplier-defined controls
• Penetration testing frequency: At least once a year
• Penetration testing approach: In-house
• Protecting data at rest:
  • Physical access control, complying with CSA CCM v3.0
  • Physical access control, complying with SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
  • Physical access control, complying with another standard
• Data sanitisation process: Yes
• Data sanitisation type: Deleted data can’t be directly accessed
• Equipment disposal approach: Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v.30, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001

Data importing and exporting

• Data export approach: Data can be extracted in agreed formats. Data volumes over 50GB will require an individual extraction plan including agreement on extract media.
• Data export formats:
  • CSV
  • Other
• Data import formats:
  • CSV
  • Other

Data-in-transit protection

• Data protection between buyer and supplier networks:
  • Private network or public sector network
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • Other
• Other protection between networks: For mobile users data is protected at rest with AES 256 bit encryption.; ; Cloudflare is used to limit access and as a WAF. Access to Civica network is locked by public IP.
• Data protection within supplier network: TLS (version 1.2 or above)

Availability and resilience

• Guaranteed availability: Civica's standard service hours are 24x7, during which time we guarantee an availability of 99.5% (excluding any planned maintenance).
• Approach to resilience: Available on request.
• Outage reporting: Infrastructure related scheduled maintenance will not occur between 07:00 and 19:00 Monday to Friday excluding English Bank Holidays. Maintenance will be arranged with a minimum of 3 working days’ notice, and will include a detailed description of the planned works, planned outcomes, and a detailed back-out plan, unless otherwise stated. Unplanned outages will be notified via the Civica Service Desk.

Identity and authentication

• User authentication needed: Yes
• User authentication:
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
  • Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
  • Dedicated link (for example VPN)
  • Username or password
• Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels: Access is restricted through needing a valid user name and password to access support channels and where possible this is accompanied by an RSA token (or equivalent).; ; All users have named accounts and a dedicated RSA access fob (or equivalent) which by default are disabled. User must request access from super users who have the access to enable individual accounts for a specific period of time.
• Access restriction testing frequency: At least once a year
• Management access authentication:
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
  • Dedicated link (for example VPN)
  • Username or password

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: Users contact the support team to get audit information
• How long supplier audit data is stored for: Between 6 months and 12 months
• How long system logs are stored for: Between 6 months and 12 months

Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: Yes
• Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001: Alcumus ISOQAR
• ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date: 06/10/2022
• What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover: We meet the full requirement of the ISO/27001 accreditation.
• ISO 28000:2007 certification: No
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: Yes
• Who accredited the PCI DSS certification: Viking Cloud
• PCI DSS accreditation date: 11/08/2023
• What the PCI DSS doesn’t cover: Scope is limited to CivicaPay service
• Cyber essentials: Yes
• Cyber essentials plus: No
• Other security certifications: Yes
• Any other security certifications:
  • ISO27701
  • ISO22301
  • PCI-DSS
  • Cyber Essentials

Security governance

• Named board-level person responsible for service security: Yes
• Security governance certified: Yes
• Security governance standards:
  • ISO/IEC 27001
  • Other
• Other security governance standards: ISO27701 - Privacy Management; ISO22301 - Business Continuity; PCI-DSS; Cyber Essentials
• Information security policies and processes: In order to provide a wide range of services to public and private sector organisations, Civica maintains an active information security programme. This programme requires regular internal and external audit inspection of both physical and logical data protection structures. The policies and procedures are aligned to ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials certifications.

Operational security

• Configuration and change management standard: Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
• Configuration and change management approach: All hosted assets metadata is stored in a Configuration Management Data Base. This data base is access controlled to authorised staff only. The CMDB provides information essential to the secure hosting of client critical services.; ; Civica's Change Management process ensures that all changes are considered and planned, and appropriate, and that there is a clear audit trail of all changes. Any changes are assessed through ISO27001 to ensure that they don't have a potential security impact.
• Vulnerability management type: Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
• Vulnerability management approach: Civica has vulnerability management processes in place for ISO27001 and PCI-DSS. These processes are externally audited on an annual basis to ensure continued compliance. ; ; For external vulnerability scanning, Civica employs the services of an external ‘CHECK’ approved provider to perform an annual penetration test against the external management IP interface. Supporting this, Civica is also certified to the CESG approved Cyber Essentials scheme. For high value financial hosted system, Civica also maintains a PCI-DSS v3.1 certification. In scope systems are subject to month internal and external vulnerability scans as well as a full penetration test twice a year.
• Protective monitoring type: Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
• Protective monitoring approach: Civica take a proactive approach to information security through a process of continual monitoring and review. As part of a documented risk assessment methodology to identify and manage information security risks a dedicated security team update the risk register monthly. ; ; Civica has a network monitoring solution in place ‘OpsView’ as well as a full antivirus and anti-malware solution. These technologies check the hosted services for errors, infections and unexpected network traffic and are support by Cisco IPS/IDS at the perimeter layer. This monitoring service provides defence in depth, against compromise, by detecting infections and suspicious networking activity within the environment.
• Incident management type: Conforms to a recognised standard, for example, CSA CCM v3.0 or ISO/IEC 27035:2011 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
• Incident management approach: Civica have developed an Incident Management process (PRM07) under ISO 20000 standards which details both the Incident and Service Request Management processes. ; ; The Civica Service Desk manages end user Service Requests, Incidents and Requests for Change (RFCs) which can be logged by e-mail, telephone and web portal. Monthly customer reports will detail incident information.

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: No

Social Value

• Social Value:

  Social Value

  • Fighting climate change
  • Tackling economic inequality
  • Equal opportunity
  • Wellbeing

  Fighting climate change

  As a company, we’ve made an ambitious commitment to achieve Net Zero Carbon emissions by 2040 (or sooner) by supporting our customers net zero ambitions, creating software with inbuilt sustainability and reducing our own impact.; ; Our Carbon Reduction Plan demonstrates our ambition to become industry leaders in reducing our environmental impact in support of the UK’s Net Zero Target. Underlining this ambition, we are focusing not only on our direct emissions sources but also actively engaging with our wider supply chain to understand, measure and develop meaningful emissions reductions targets in line with our Net Zero Target.; ; We are accredited to the ISO14001 Standard and to support delivery of our commitment our Environment, Social Value and Governance provides clear focus for the ongoing development of our environmental policy.; ; • We develop innovative software-based services that reduce power requirements.; • We help customers opt for more sustainable choices, through digital platforms/apps which remove paper, support flexible/agile working, underpinned by cloud-based services employing energy efficient technology.; • We support carbon neutrality with workforces/facilities to reduce carbon consumption over 10-years.; • We prioritise the use of green energy in Civica owned facilities within the next 10 years.; • We promote recycling through our ‘Zero to Landfill’ and ‘Zero Print’ schemes.; ; Our commitment to continue to promote with employees and customers a much greater responsibility and leadership in eliminating unnecessary single-use plastics; we will continue to look to make more innovative and systematic changes to further reduce our use of single-use plastics across the organisation and to openly share our outcomes and learnings.; ; We undertake SECR Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting on our environmental footprint and the progress we are making to becoming Net Zero. ; ; Our commitment to fighting climate change will help deliver the policy outcomes for fighting climate change under PPN 06/20.

  Tackling economic inequality

  Civica is committed to building an inclusive and diverse culture that tackles inequality in employment, skills and pay. We promote equal opportunity through all our activities and ensure rights for all employees are always protected. We are listed as a 2020 Financial Times Diversity Leader and we are a ‘Gold’ Investors in People company. ; ; We have increased our focus and commitment to ensure we proactively implement equal and non-discriminatory treatment to all our workers. We have implemented a Diversity & Inclusion Strategy and have a Diversity and Inclusion Lead to drive the implementation of this strategy. This aims to tackle inequality in recruitment practices, team development, skills and pay through the following actions:; ; • We are a Living Wage accredited employer.; • We recruit locally to where services are delivered.; • We are committed to developing the skills of young people near our client’s businesses e.g., for a local authority, we have developed a programme of engagement workshops for young people with the potential for digital work experience. ; • Our staff act as mentors for Youth Enterprise schemes in schools/universities.; • We are a member of the 5% club, an industry-led initiative focused on creating momentum behind the recruitment of apprentices into the UK workplace. ; • Over 2.5% of our workplace is made up of apprentices or graduates and we intend to increase this to 5% by the end of 2025.; • We provide our own apprenticeship programme for managers, giving them access to training and development that may not be accessible outside the workplace.; ; Our commitment to building an inclusive and diverse culture will help deliver the policy outcomes for tackling economic inequality under PPN 06/20 and will dramatically improve job prospects and increase earning potential for the young and job seeking communities.

  Equal opportunity

  Civica is committed to providing equal opportunities and building an inclusive and diverse culture. The more diverse our workforce, the more informed the decisions we can make for our customers, supporting the communities in which we work. ; ; We are proud to have been ranked as one of the top European companies for workforce diversity and equality, as chosen by in the Financial Times in 2020.; ; We are committed to building and maintaining an inclusive and supportive culture where diversity thrives:; ; • To ensure our recruitment practices support the attraction and hiring of diverse candidates, all vacancies are advertised on multiple Diversity & Inclusion platforms. ; • We run attraction campaigns targeting females and BAME applicants. We use a process of anonymised applications, competency-based questions and scoring to remove bias. We also use decoders to ensure job advertisements use gender and culturally neutral language. We also ensure mixed panel interviewing.; • We advertise vacancies on https://disabilityjob.co.uk/ and share diversity statements on all job adverts.; • We have made training on diversity and inclusion mandatory.; • We aim to ensure increased diversity of new starters in technology/sales/leadership roles by 10% per annum over the next 3 years.; • We aim to ensure that at least 50% of shortlisted people are being considered from a diverse background for roles above £35k.; • We promote affinity groups within the company who represent a group of people linked by a common characteristic, often underrepresented, or historically excluded, which acts as a ‘safe space’ for such individuals. This identity could be related to race, gender, sexual orientation, language, nationality, physical or mental ability, socioeconomic class, family structure, religion, amongst others.; ; Our commitment to providing equality of opportunity will support the delivery of the policy outcomes for equal opportunity under PPN 06/20.

  Wellbeing

  Civica actively promotes a mentally healthy workplace and workforce integrating mental health and general wellbeing in all that we do from recruitment, appraisals to strategic management.; ; Through our Health and Wellbeing Policy and 40+ Mental Health Champions we encourage a flexible and realistic work/life balance. Our HWP provides a foundation to support both the mental and physical health of our staff through: ; ; • Employee Assistance Programme and online Wellbeing Hub, which provides 24/7 access to websites, e-mail, phone and face-to-face counselling on all personal issues.; • Aviva DigiCare+ Workplace App providing external mental health consultancy.; • Mental Health Champions who support colleagues’ wellbeing in the workplace.; • RedArc Personal nurse service.; • Management Coaching - managers are trained in GROW (Goals, Reality, Options and Will) and in being Health and Wellbeing Advisors, supporting employees with mental/physical health needs.; • Health assessments/advice aimed at improving physical health.; • Cycle to Work scheme to aid physical and mental health.; • Weekly fruit drop for offices, encouraging a healthier diet.; • We provide free eye tests for all VDU users, encourage staff to take advantage of NHS flu vaccinations services, and support people wishing to use the NHS Stop Smoking Service.; ; We also support our customers’ and communities’ through The Civica Foundation, our home for all charity, community, volunteering and social value. Our Days of Difference initiative gives every Civica employee 3 days a year to make a difference to charitable or community causes. Our employees can use this individually, join-up as a team or take part in Civica coordinated events. ; ; Suppliers/subcontractors are subject to Civica’s Sub-contractor Selection Process as defined in our ISO9001 QMS, which includes criteria for assessing health and wellbeing policies.; ; Our commitment to providing equality of opportunity supports the delivery of the policy outcomes for Wellbeing under PPN 06/20.

Pricing

• Price: £3,100 a licence a month
• Discount for educational organisations: No
• Free trial available: No

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card

  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 g-cloud@civica.co.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.