Cloud Service Procurement Support
Our service supports customers' procurement of cloud services, cloud systems integration and support services. Providing an end-to-end capability aligned to the Technology Code of Practice including, requirements definition, procurement strategy, service definition, market engagement, evaluation methodology, bid evaluation and scoring, bidder feedback, contract negotiation and lessons learnt.
Features
- Covers Digital Marketplace, CCS Frameworks, OJEU and Find a Tender
- Benefit Identification, Business Case and Delivery Roadmap
- User research and development of procurement strategy
- User and Service Requirement definition and drafting
- Market engagement materials and presentations and Service Knowledge Library provision
- Evaluation criteria and methodologies
- Bid clarification, evaluation, scoring and feedback
- Contract Negotiation
- Disaggregated models and multi-source procurements
- Cloud, Infrastructure and accessibility solutions procurement expertise
Benefits
- Provides structure, process and solution expertise for cloud services procurement
- Independent expert advice, separate from incumbent suppliers or potential suppliers/vendors
- Benefit from significant experience of large public sector ICT procurements
- Provide well drafted, clear and standardised requirements to the market
- Ensure bid evaluation methodology and criteria support your business objectives
- Engage the market with superior technical expertise on your team
- Ensure alignment with procurement regulations and HMG standards
- Define and ensure alignment with new or existing service models
- Improve your procurement outcomes, by involving supplier-side expertise.
Pricing
£300 a unit a day
Service documents
Request an accessible format
Framework
G-Cloud 13
Service ID
6 7 7 4 6 9 4 4 4 4 1 6 7 6 1
Contact
Through Technology Limited
Peter Hanney
Telephone: +44 (0)7913334794
Email: enquiries@throughtechnology.uk
Planning
- Planning service
- Yes
- How the planning service works
- We will work with your team to define a procurement strategy aligned with the Technology Code of Practice. Having identified the optimum procurement route, we will work with you to develop your procurement roadmap, materials and timescale.
- Planning service works with specific services
- Yes
- Hosting or software services the planning service works with
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- G-Cloud Procurement
- Digital Outcomes and Specialists DOS Procurement
- OJEU Procurement
- Find a Tender Procurement (replacing OJEU in January 2021)
- Procurement from other Technology Frameworks (e.g. Technical Services, Network Services)
Training
- Training service provided
- Yes
- How the training service works
- Our service will provide a clear exit plan upon conclusion, including transfer of all project documentation and knowledge transfer sessions with the customer's internal or incumbent supplier teams.
- 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
- Yes
- How the quality assurance and performance testing works
- We provide comprehensive quality assurance of all procurement materials produced, including market engagement, contract and requirement drafts and evaluation models and criteria. We also undertake bid evaluation in a structured and effective manner with the capability to assess deliverability and fit to customer requirements based upon in depth cloud service and infrastructure expertise.
Security testing
- Security services
- Yes
- Security services type
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- Security strategy
- Security risk management
- Security design
- Cyber security consultancy
- Security testing
- Certified security testers
- Yes
- Security testing certifications
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- CHECK
- CREST
Ongoing support
- Ongoing support service
- No
Service scope
- Service constraints
- None
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- No
- Phone support
- No
- Web chat support
- No
- Support levels
- This is a cloud procurement support service for customer Digital and Technology departments and does not require support of end users. Throughout any engagement we will provide support and consultancy on a T&M or fixed price basis with all queries responded to within at most one business day. You will have an assigned Service Manager and Solution Lead to carry out the work and provide any aftercare required. We offer user support services separately through our TT Cloud Services Support offering on G-Cloud lot 3.
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Not a reseller
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Conforms to BS7858:2019
- Government security clearance
- Up to Developed Vetting (DV)
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
- British Standards Institute (BSI) - BSI Certificate Number IS 743920
- ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
- 13/10/2021
- What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
- Nothing, it covers the full scope of our services on the G-Cloud Framework
- 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
- Fighting climate change
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Fighting climate change
Through Technology is a Carbon Negative Business and formally assessed and certified as such with the PAS2060 Carbon Neutral Plus standard. This means that our services are operated to remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than our business has created or will create in future, already significantly exceeding HM Government's Net Zero targets. Our business was designed with a very carbon-efficient business model. Building on this foundation, we have a process of continual improvement. We annually calculate our carbon footprint using the reputable carbonfootprint.com service, identify further reductions in our environmental impact, then offset -double- the residual carbon footprint of our business through the same scheme reputable UK tree-planting scheme used to offset HM Government ministerial travel. Measuring our footprint every year, optimising it and offsetting double, scales with our business and automatically applies to every service we provide (through G-Cloud or elsewhere). Furthermore, because trees last for many years, our positive impact on carbon capture and storage will continue to grow greater and greater across the lifetime of our business. As a business, we are also focussed upon helping our customers achieve your outcomes. We consider environmental impact in the work we undertake as part of our services many of which involve carbon reduction through modernisation of systems and migration to the cloud. Fighting Climate Change is something we are passionate about. We are proud of the contribution we make as UK Small Business. It also shows our commitment to not only meet, but exceed government targets for fighting climate change and goals of Procurement Policy Notes PPN 06/20 (Social Value) and PPN 06/21 (Taking account of Carbon Reduction in major contracts). Further detail, including "Beyond Net Zero - The Through Technology Environmental Impact Plan" available upon request. - Covid-19 recovery
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Covid-19 recovery
In Through Technology, we have a very strong focus on achieving value for the tax-payers money and on supporting the UK economy. We are a UK Small Business, paying all our taxes in the UK and operating in full compliance with UK Tax regulations. We are members of the TechUK industry body, volunteering time via our seat on their Justice and Emergency Services Committee to help to define and deliver best practice in work between the Digital & Technology industry and government. We are signatories to the UK Government Small Business Commissioner’s Prompt Payment Code. Meaning we commit to paying our supply chain within 30 days and have never yet failed to do so, even when we ourselves have faced delays in our payments. Our company principles include sharing knowledge and building capability with our customers’ internal teams. This can be seen in our “Insource Transition Support” service published on G-Cloud. Helping our customers insource and develop their internal teams will drive upskilling and job creation within our public sector customers. We have a defined standard business process to actively seek out opportunities for savings and cost avoidance for our customers in everything we do. This process has resulted in savings and cost avoidance of over £10M in the last 3 years, saving our customers more than we have cost them while we have also delivered all of our contracted scope. We have also created new jobs in our business during the Covid 19 pandemic and continue to collaborate effectively with our customers remotely through their choice of tooling and onsite following all current Covid guidance. - Tackling economic inequality
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Tackling economic inequality
Through Technology are committed to fighting economic inequality. As a modern business without strong geographic ties, our hiring policy is to prioritise recruitment from areas of high social deprivation as identified in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities' English Indices of Deprivation). At present, 40% of our staff are from these areas and as our business grows, so will this percentage, ensuring that most of the tax-payer money spent on our services ends up in the local UK communities that need it the most. We are an equal opportunities employer that recognises and actively seeks out the benefits of diverse and inclusive teams to our business, to our customers and to wider society. - Equal opportunity
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Equal opportunity
We are an equal opportunities employer that recognises and actively seeks out the benefits of diverse and inclusive teams to our business, to our customers and to wider society. This is built into our policies, procedures and contracts, and lived day to day. We have worked to remove any bias from our organisational processes, including subconscious bias where it may exist. An example is that the first stage of our recruitment process is anonymised, minimising the impact of any potential bias in CV and Application evaluation. We are signatories to the Armed Forces Covenant and seek proactively to recruit ex-forces personnel, overcoming some of their challenges in returning to civilian life. Our recruitment process for opportunities is intentionally designed to be accessible and open to all. Our teams working through G-Cloud are diverse and include people from different parts of the UK, age groups, ethnic origin, gender, disability and faith. - Wellbeing
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Wellbeing
Through Technology’s defining characteristic is the quality of our people, so we take well-being very seriously and have a number of measures in place to support the well-being of our staff and people they work with. Despite our relative small size, we have a board member responsible for staff wellbeing and a number of policies and processes which we live every week to maintain it. Examples include: Providing private health cover for all employees, offering time out for voluntary work in our local communities (including current staff acting as school governors, volunteering careers guidance in schools, acting as community representatives and teaching practical philosophy/life skills), funding a qualified Mental Health First Aider within the business, fostering a culture that welcomes private or public discussion of mental health and well-being (including open discussion of our CEO’s personal experiences). We also care about the well-being of those we work with in our supply chain, our customers, and their third-party suppliers. If we identify any well-being or stress-related issues with colleagues outside our organisation, then we handle these sensitively through the appropriate process or channel.
Pricing
- Price
- £300 a unit a day
- Discount for educational organisations
- No