ATKINSRÉALIS UK LIMITED

Complex Sourcing for Cloud

AtkinsRéalis work with clients to specify, procure, and implement complex technology solutions and services in the cloud. Complexity arises from functional, technical, commercial, financial, and legal considerations; increasing when solutions involve a hybrid of on-premises and in-cloud elements. We can support all EU-compliant procurement procedures including HM Government frameworks.

Features

• Qualified Procurement, Supply Chain and Commercial subject matter expertise.
• End-to-end specification, planning and execution for Complex Sourcing for Cloud
• Market engagement/assessment, Requests for Information / Expression of Interest development
• Qualified experienced subject matter expertise Selection Questionnaire development and evaluation.
• ITT / RFP / RFQ development, evaluation criteria and assessment
• Contract Schedule development, including Cabinet Office Model IT Contract
• Competitive Dialogue planning and execution, including ITPD/ITPFD and supporting documentation
• Specialist qualified technical subject matter expertise supporting evaluation criteria
• Preferred supplier negotiation support with qualified technical subject matter experts.
• Post award review and supplier management, including service level assessment.

Benefits

• Experienced and supportive Procurement and Commercial approach development and implementation.
• Proven clear robust approach delivering Complex Sourcing for the Cloud.
• Clear, concise procurement strategies that senior executives understand and endorsement.
• Clear definitions of what is to be procured and why.
• Quantified measurable business benefits that align to the business need.
• Accelerated templates that can be adapted throughout a procurement lifecycle.
• Integrated and comprehensive approach providing effective stakeholder engagement and governance.
• Enterprise focus that maximises business benefits of chosen procurement route.
• Early market engagement delivering collaborative, effective, partner-centric supply chains.
• Traceable Controls providing strong governance procurement and implementation.

£600 a unit a day

• Education pricing available

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 ccs@atkinsrealis.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.

Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

682004541261596

Contact

Martin Yeoman
+44 1372 75 2023
ccs@atkinsrealis.com

Planning

• Planning service: Yes
• How the planning service works: AtkinsRéalis understand that Cloud infrastructure enables dynamic scaling based on demand and provides sourcing strategies that consider how easily and rapidly resources can be scaled up or down; a significant departure from traditional sourcing models that require upfront capacity planning and investment. ; Our experienced procurement and commercial consultants will offer guidance, and support your organisation to consider the following factors: ; Why procure/outsource now?; Evaluation of potential Cloud integration and interoperability requirements.; Can the market deliver your requirements? ; Considering and avoiding potential vendor lock-in and increased Cloud redundancy.; What does success look like? ; Reviewing potential Cloud management for optimising performance and cost-effectiveness of your organisation. ; How will success be measured?; Deciphering Service Level Agreements (SLAs) ensuring that the cloud infrastructure meets your organisation's requirements for performance, availability, and support.; ; Is the potential deal attractive and cost effective for your organisation?; Evaluating all cost management options to implement effective cost management strategies. ; What outcomes/benefits are expected?; Supporting your organisation to attribute appropriate costs to teams, projects, departments, or resources whilst considering potential financial adjustments based on workloads. ; We recognise that Cloud adoption often requires new skills. Our consultants can actively aid upskilling of your teams, gaining the greatest benefits from Cloud sourcing.
• Planning service works with specific services: No

Training

• Training service provided: Yes
• How the training service works: We can provide instructor led training for users and technical staff to ensure rapid adoption of and smooth transition to new software and cloud hosting. In addition to training, we work closely with our customers to deliver tailored knowledge transfer. We see knowledge transfer as an integral element of our assignment delivery so that our customers can continue to realise benefits after the assignment is complete. It is for that reason that we prefer to work as an integral part of the client team, building knowledge and familiarity within the client team as we go. We believe that one of our key strengths is imparting our knowledge and experience throughout the lifecycle of a project. By engaging with clients in this way, we are able to transfer a firm understanding of the work being undertaken, the techniques being employed, and the deliverables being created.
• Training is tied to specific services: No

Setup and migration

• Setup or migration service available: Yes
• How the setup or migration service works: Complex Sourcing for the Cloud provides capabilities to plan, support and deliver the specification and procurement of cloud hosting/software. We consider all aspects of cloud migration, including:; • Understanding the business need to ensure you procure the right thing: What is to be procured/outsourced to Cloud Service Providers and why? What does success look like i.e., the required outcomes and desired benefits?; • Change readiness: What is the impact of migrating to the cloud? What changes must happen to ensure success?; • Security and access control: Will data in the cloud be protected and held privately? What measures are there to prevent other customers of the cloud provider accessing our data?; • Reliability/Availability: Will data in the cloud be accessible when needed? How quickly will access be restored in the event of an outage?; • Integrity: What measures are in place to avoid permanent data loss? What recourse exists if the worst happens?; • Avoiding lock-in: Is there a risk of being tied to a cloud provider for long periods? What contractual mechanisms are in place to avoid lock-in?; • Location: Is it guaranteed that data will be stored in acceptable locations e.g., within the UK or EU?
• 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: Our Aerospace, Defence, Security and Technology (ADS&T) division within AtkinsRéalis holds ISO 27001 and all our UK businesses are independently certified as achieving the ISO 9001:2015 quality management standard.; New software or hosting will be subject to a rigorous testing plan agreed with the client. Each functional and non-functional requirement will be tested and will be retested at the end of each sprint to confirm its continued operation. Repetitious testing shall be scripted and automated where appropriate.; Customer journeys will be tested by both testing engineers and sampled end users, where practicable. Performance will be tested in conditions as close as possible to real-world conditions, including network/internet traffic and transactional load, as well as under exceptional loads such as the running of large MI reports.; In the event that a customer requirement cannot be met as expected, we will support clients in either rejecting the new product/capability or, where appropriate, in agreeing a pragmatic relaxation of an aspect of the original requirements. The quality assurance of the new software, capability or hosting shall cover not just the validation of requirements, but also the suitability of the “look and feel” for the end users.

Security testing

• Security services: Yes
• Security services type:
  • Security strategy
  • Security risk management
  • Security design
  • Cyber security consultancy
  • Security testing
  • Security incident management
  • Security audit services
• Certified security testers: No

Ongoing support

• Ongoing support service: No

Service scope

• Service constraints: No

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Yes, at extra cost
• Support response times: Our dedicated Technical Support team supports external customers, during contracted hours of support. Response times are aligned to the following incident priority levels:; • A - Critical, respond in 2 working hours providing circumvention instructions where possible or fix.; • B - Major, respond in 4 working hours details as per priority A.; • C&D - Functional or intermittent Incident, respond in 8 working hours details as per priority A.; Classification details are available for each Priority.
• 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: Standard Support is available during 08:00 – 18:00 hours, Monday to Friday (not English Public Holidays). Incidents may be logged via the web, telephone, or email during these times. Additionally, Incidents may be logged via the web outside of these hours, but they will not be progressed until the next working day. Software fixes will be progressed during these hours, and a release made available in line with the Customers agreement. 7 days per week – see Standard Hours, the addition being able to log and receive responses to Incidents during the additional hours. Please note that we operate a Restoration of Service (RoS) approach to support on the additional days e.g., Saturday, Sunday and English public holidays – See below for RoS definition. 24/7 - see 7 days per week, the addition being able to log and receive responses on a 24/7 basis. Restoration of Service (RoS) – during extended hours of support the aim is to get the Customer operational as soon as possible. Software fixes will not be provided during the additional hours of support. Incidents remain the responsibility of the Technical Support team throughout the life cycle.

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: Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance Limited
• ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date: 06/04/2024
• What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover: N/A
• 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:

  Social Value

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

  Fighting climate change

  AtkinsRéalis are committed to achieving social value on everything we deliver. Everything we do supports our goal of delivering outstanding project outcomes for our clients, but also ensuring that we leave a legacy for our client and their stakeholders, whether it be environmental, social, or economic. As a global organisation working on the world’s biggest Infrastructure, Transport and Energy programmes we always work to ensure that climate change is considered. Tailored commitments will be agreed through the buying process.; Sustainability is at the heart of AtkinsRéalis purpose - engineering a better future for our planet and its people. As an organisation we have signed up to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change's (UNFCCC) Race to Zero global campaign and signed the Business Ambition for 1.5oC commitments. We have signed The Climate Pledge, working towards net zero by 2030 and are in the process of setting science-based targets. ; We support clients in safeguarding what we do today to enhance the environment and protect future generations from harm, this is fundamental to AtkinsRéalis’ sustainability policy and Sustainable Business Strategy. ; We have a series of approaches that we use through the delivery of our cloud projects, including:; • Considering whole life carbon when designing systems and assets to minimise carbon.; • Utilising a variety of tools (appropriate to the sector and client) to assess whole life carbon from embodied to in-life to end of life.; • Raising awareness about climate change to stakeholders of the projects to ensure clear understanding.

  Tackling economic inequality

  AtkinsRéalis are committed to achieving social value on everything we deliver. Everything we do supports our goal of delivering outstanding project outcomes for our clients but also ensuring that we leave a legacy for our client and their stakeholders, whether it be environmental, social, or economic. Tailored commitments will be agreed through the buying process.; We are committed to creating a healthy future for communities and the wider economy. We do this through creating new businesses, jobs and skills and working with supply chain partners to create capacity and resilience.; We recognise some of the digital and cyber skills shortages facing the UK and are actively participating and promoting careers from school age children through to lifelong training. This is often delivered through STEM outreach schemes such as Governors for Schools programme and CyberFirst. This can include upskilling activities delivered by some of our highly skilled professionals ranging from interview and job preparation (e.g., CV support, Mock interviews) through to technical training (e.g., cyber security, digital skillset, STEM-based careers, supply chain engagement). We promote our full-time opportunities to priority groups based on the area of operation. (e.g., people living in regionally and nationally deprived areas /disabled people/ people who are underrepresented in the industry including Women, BAME, LGBT+ etc.).; We understand the opportunities a diverse supply chain can bring to complement our overall solution we are providing to our clients, such as innovation, improved productivity, novel or new technologies or niche skillsets. As a large organisation we have a large network of approved suppliers from diverse backgrounds including small and medium enterprises that we can utilise as required. These suppliers go through our due diligence process to ensure they meet our standards (i.e. around cyber security) and we are working with suppliers who share our values.

  Equal opportunity

  AtkinsRéalis are committed to achieving social value on everything we deliver. Everything we do supports our goal of delivering outstanding project outcomes for our clients but also ensuring that we leave a legacy for our client and their stakeholders, whether it be environmental, social, or economic. Tailored commitments will be agreed through the buying process.; We have achieved the platinum standard on Cleared Assured Accreditation and are well positioned in its advocacy of ED&I practices. We are committed to creating an inclusive, collaborative culture for all of its employees and sub-contractors and feeding back value directly to our clients. ; AtkinsRéalis is a member of Inclusive Employers, a national network of businesses committed to building inclusive workplaces. Our processes have enabled us to create inclusive and diverse teams that will benefit clients with better performance, diversity of thinking and enhanced creativity. We are committed to cultivating a thriving diverse and inclusive work environment, where differences are valued and respected, and all staff are valued, supported, and treated fairly. ; Equal opportunity is fundamental to how AtkinsRéalis operates. From the moment a candidate applies to a vacancy of ours, we assess how we can best ensure equality. With this in mind, we are committed to ensuring that we select and recruit the best people for each role based on their ability to do the job, in line with the needs of the business, irrespective of the candidates’ gender identity, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, health, age, race, nationality, religion, employment status, or membership or non-membership of a trade union. We pursue this commitment by having clear and concise procedures and guidelines for HR and line managers to ensure policies are fully understood and implemented.

  Wellbeing

  AtkinsRéalis are committed to achieving social value on everything we deliver. Everything we do supports our goal of delivering outstanding project outcomes for our clients but also ensuring that we leave a legacy for our client and their stakeholders, whether it be environmental, social, or economic. Tailored commitments will be agreed through the buying process.; We are passionately committed to changing the way we think about, and deal with mental/ physical health and wellbeing in the workplace. Without a happy, healthy, and energised team we wouldn’t be able to serve our clients in the innovative way we want to and make substantive change like cloud transformation possible. We live by our own values and ensure these are embedded in our delivery. When undertaking our work, we ensure all stakeholders have a safe and open dialogue to talk about health and wellbeing and access appropriate support. ; We consider ourselves long term partners with communities, upskilling people and enabling wellbeing benefits over the long term. This can include:; • Partnering with local groups and charities to invest in community wellbeing appropriate to the services being delivered. ; • Training our staff to deliver inclusive design in every piece of work to account for those with accessibility issues. ; • Designing with users'’ wellbeing in mind. (Implementing user centered design principles and co-designing with the stakeholders who will use cloud technology.; • Engaging with stakeholders; to raise awareness to address specific wellbeing agendas, such as mental health.

Pricing

• Price: £600 a unit a day
• Discount for educational organisations: Yes

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 ccs@atkinsrealis.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.