REDCENTRIC SOLUTIONS LIMITED

Healthcare Secure Remote Access Service (HSRAS)

Redcentric’s Healthcare Secure Remote Access (HSRAS) service offers a robust, scalable, flexible and secure way for healthcare professionals to access the HSCN network whilst travelling and remote working. Software on users device communicates with the remote access platform across any Internet connection and a secure access tunnel is established.

Features

• Uses two-factor authentication by default
• Low per-seat, per month charge
• Highly scalable
• Choice of hardware or software tokens
• Highly resilient authentication platform
• Fast, easy provisioning
• Easy to use administration portal
• Works with a wide variety of operating systems
• Direct access to HSCN network

Benefits

• Geographically resilient service
• Easy to install service
• Can be linked with customer's LDAP
• Same token operation across multiple operating systems
• Real time, customer administered portal
• Enables frontline healthcare staff to access HSCN resources remotely
• Supports business continuity, allowing users to continue working remotely
• Scalable and flexible
• Implements security by using two-factor authentication

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

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Framework

G-Cloud 15

Service ID

699839133328949

Contact

Steph Heseltine
+441423850000
tenders@redcentricplc.com

About your service

• Service categories:

  Systems Infrastructure Software

  Security

  Network security

  • Trusted network access and protection
• Multi cloud support: Yes

Service scope

• Software add-on or extension: No
• Cloud deployment model: Private cloud
• Service constraints: A minimum of 10 tokens must be ordered at any one time.; ; · Users must have access to the Internet from their required device; ; · A valid and current HSCN Connection Agreement is required for access to the HSCN network; ; · User devices must have the ability to install and use Cisco AnyConnect client software
• System requirements:
  • Redcentric supports software tokens on the following Operating System platforms:
  • Apple iOS
  • Android
  • Windows phone
  • Mac OS
  • Windows desktop
  • Cisco AnyConnect client is supported on the following Operating Systems:
  • Windows desktop
  • Mac OS/Linux

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Yes
• Support response times: Redcentric staff support the platform, the administration portal and provide system wide support to the Customer’s help desk staff. Redcentric does not offer support to individual end users. We aim to acknowledge all Advice and Guidance requested within fifteen minutes. Response times will depend on the request type and level of detail required. We typically aim to provide an initial response within one hour of the request being made however this can vary dependent on the nature of the request
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: No
• Phone support: Yes
• Phone support availability: 24 hours, 7 days a week
• Web chat support: No
• Onsite support: Yes, at extra cost
• Support levels: Redcentric’s customer service operation is available 24/7/365 and can be contacted by telephone, email or via the customer portal. Support is included at no additional cost with Redcentric's services. Redcentric has one direct point of contact for customer support, which deals with all aspects of the service. The Redcentric customer services team takes full responsibility for supporting and logging problems and technical support queries. Their specific role is to ensure that all telephone, email and portal queries are answered and resolved as promptly as possible. Redcentric has a team of Technical Account Managers and Cloud Support Engineers available. These teams are not included as a standard service and are charged.
• Support available to third parties: Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

• Getting started: We provide a comprehensive set of guides on setting up the service and provide engineering time to assist users if required.
• Service documentation: Yes
• Documentation formats: PDF
• End-of-contract data extraction: Customers will be given the opportunity to obtain any user data and user log data. Redcentric staff will also provide a list to the customer of all users at the point of service decommissioning. Access to the service will be removed and any token service will cease to operate. Any hardware tokens provided as part of the service will need to be returned to Redcentric at the end of contract period.
• End-of-contract process: User log data and user data can be extracted from the portal at any point in time. This is achievable on the portal by choosing the appropriate report to produce the relevant data. Data can be extracted in various formats, including HTML, CSV and PDF. Redcentric staff will also provide a list to the customer of all users at the point of service decommissioning.
• Documentation accessibility standard: EN 301 549

Using the service

• Web browser interface: Yes
• Supported browsers:
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Safari
• Application to install: Yes
• Compatible operating systems:
  • Android
  • IOS
  • MacOS
  • Windows
• Designed for use on mobile devices: Yes
• Differences between the mobile and desktop service: None
• Service interface: Yes
• User support accessibility: None or don’t know
• Description of service interface: Administrative users can add, remove and change the underlying users allocated to the 2FA service. They can allocate, de-allocate and re-issue 2FA tokens to the userbase as required. They can also add, remove and update information within underlying user profiles eg. Email address, name. LDAP integration for user importation and update is also available.; ; For security, administrative users are required to have a separate 2FA token to access the administrative portal. There is no limit on the number of administrative users, but each must have their own separate 2FA token for portal administration.
• Accessibility standards: None or don’t know
• Description of accessibility: This service currently meets the WCAG 2.1A standard and is progressing toward achieving WCAG 2.2A compliance.
• Accessibility testing: N/A
• API: Yes
• What users can and can't do using the API: A Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) synchronization agent is available for Customers to deploy in their environment. Once installed, the LDAP synchronization agent monitors LDAP groups for membership changes and updates user information on the authentication platform to reflect these changes. The agent reads only basic information from the directory and communication from the agent to the authentication platform uses strong encryption. Specific details of the LDAP agent, including the directories that can be supported is available on request. Collaboration with Redcentric engineers is required to establish LDAP integration. LDAP agent set-up and support incurs additional charges
• API documentation: Yes
• API documentation formats:
  • PDF
  • Other
• API sandbox or test environment: No
• Customisation available: No

Scaling

• Independence of resources: The authentication service is not computationally intensive with minimal actual bandwidth requirements and therefore does not suffer from increased demand by users. Additionally, the nature of the service is typically one time use per session and therefore does not suffer from extreme usage or demand.; ; VPN endpoints and associated incoming bandwidth from the Internet are proactively monitored with automatic alerts generated if usage thresholds are breached. All bandwidth and equipment is regularly monitored for capacity to ensure ongoing service is maintained.

Analytics

• Service usage metrics: Yes
• Metrics types: Other
• Reporting types: Reports on request
• Resource tagging: No
• FOCUS resource tagging: No

Resellers

• Supplier type: Reseller providing extra features and support
• Organisation whose services are being resold: Thales (Safenet), Cisco VPN solution

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Conforms to BS7858:2019
• Government security clearance: Security Clearance (SC)

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: Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 4.0)
• Penetration testing frequency: At least once a year
• Penetration testing approach: ‘IT Health Check’ performed by a CHECK service provider
• Protecting data at rest:
  • Physical access control, complying with SSAE-18 / ISAE 3402
  • Physical access control, complying with another standard
  • Encryption of all physical media
  • Other
• Other data at rest protection approach: ISO27001 certified.
• Data sanitisation process: Yes
• Equipment disposal approach: A third-party destruction service
• Data sanitisation type:
  • Deleted data can’t be directly accessed / Cryptographic Erasure
  • Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation / Secure Erase
  • Physical Destruction / Hardware containing data is completely destroyed

Data importing and exporting

• Data export approach: User log data and user data can be extracted from the portal at any point in time. This is achievable on the portal by choosing the appropriate report to produce the relevant data. Data can be extracted in various formats, including HTML, CSV and PDF. Redcentric staff will also provide a list to the customer of all users at the point of service decommissioning
• Data export formats:
  • CSV
  • Other
• Other data export formats:
  • HTML
  • PDF
• Data import formats:
  • CSV
  • ODF
  • Other
• Other data import formats:
  • HTML
  • PDF

Data-in-transit protection

• Data protection between buyer and supplier networks:
  • Private network or public sector network
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
• Data protection within supplier network:
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • IPsec or TLS VPN gateway

Availability and resilience

• Guaranteed availability: The Service Level applicable to the Healthcare Secure Remote Access Service is as follows:; ; Service Level: Availability; Measurement Period: Month; ; Service Level - Not less than 99.5%; ; Exclusions from availability; ; In calculating Availability, in addition to the exclusions listed in clause 6.7 of the General Terms the following shall be excluded:; ; An extreme volume of users connecting to the platform as a result of an event that is beyond the control of the parties; ; Any failure of HSCN connectivity or services; ; Floor service level; ; The Floor Service Level applicable to the Healthcare Secure Remote Access Service in respect of Availability shall be 85% in any given Month.; ; Service credits; ; The Service Credits applicable to the Healthcare Secure Remote Access Service shall be calculated as follows:; ; ≥99.5% - none; ≥99.0% but <99.5% - 5% of MS; ≥97.0% but <99.0% - 15% of MS; <97.0% - 20% of MS; ; “≥” means “greater than or equal to”; ; “<” means “less than”; ; “MS” means the total Charges payable in respect of the SRA Service for the same Month
• Approach to resilience: The service is Internet based and endpoint gateways are located in multiple geographically resilient datacentres in the UK. The two-factor token authentication element of the service is geographically resilient across several sites around the world.; ; Our datacentres have the following redundancies built in:; ; Primary Northern datacentre; ; Better than Tier-3 datacentre compliance for both power and cooling. 100% concurrently maintainable with redundancies.; ; Power; ; · 2xMains feeds (A, B) via separate Transformers Running as N+N independent feeds with duel feeds to Switch room “C” Chiller House; ; · 4x500kva UPS running in one pair “A” one pair “B” as N+N within each switch room; ; · 3xGenerators configured as N+1; ; Primary Southern datacentre; ; Power; ; · 1xMains feed via dedicated transformer running as “N” backed up with Generators (Fault tolerant and concurrently maintainable); ; · 4x400kva UPS running as N+1 (Fault tolerant and concurrently maintainable); ; · Separate A & B cabinet feeds from UPS output busbar (Fault tolerant and concurrently maintainable); ; · Switchgear with wrap-around paths allowing full concurrent maintainability; ; · 3xGenerators configured as N+1 (Fault tolerant and concurrently maintainable)
• Outage reporting: As this is a multiply-resilient service, outages would be reported to our support teams directly. If customer service affecting, our support teams will issue email alerts to affected customers.

Identity and authentication

• User authentication needed: Yes
• User authentication:
  • Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
  • Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
  • Limited access network (for example PSN)
  • Dedicated link (for example VPN)
  • Username or password
• Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels: Access to management interfaces and support channels is based on business need. Implementation is by least privilege RBAC; unique credentials assigned, and all access (successful or failed) is logged using anti-tamper mechanisms, made available for audit and retained for 12 months. Alerts are generated for multiple attempts for investigation by global sysadmins.; ; Additional authentication mechanisms are used for support channels to assure customers only authorised personnel respond.; ; Regular access reviews by service and platform owners are conducted with support from the Joiners, Leavers, Movers process, which ensures access is revoked or amended in a timely manner.
• Access restriction testing frequency: At least every 6 months
• Management access authentication:
  • Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
  • Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
  • Limited access network (for example PSN)
  • Dedicated link (for example VPN)
  • Username or password

Audit information for users

• Access to user activity audit information: Users contact the support team to get audit information
• How long user audit data is stored for: At least 12 months
• Access to supplier activity audit information: Users contact the support team to get audit information
• How long supplier audit data is stored for: At least 12 months
• How long system logs are stored for: At least 12 months

Security governance

• Named board-level person responsible for service security: Yes
• Security governance certified: Yes
• Security governance standards: ISO/IEC 27001
• Information security policies and processes: Redcentric’s InfoSec scope includes ISO27001 certification, and other critical aspects including physical security, employees and third parties. Our approach is to understand the risk from threat actors and implement the controls and mitigations to assure the Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability of data.; ; Security is driven from the top with the CTO as SIRO (Senior Information Risk Owner), being accountable for several key policy documents, and the signatory for Security and Compliance attestation statements. Ops Board members regularly review key and corporate risks.; ; Security roles are assigned, with the Head of Compliance owning InfoSec and Operational Security Manager responsible for day to day matters. Regular security forum meetings are held, in addition to senior management review meetings.; ; Policy compliance is monitored by regular internal security audits, and six monthly surveillance audits by BSI. Annual security training is mandatory for all employees with attendance records maintained for audit purposes.; ; The following policies and procedures are operable:; ; IS Policy; ; Data Protection Policy; ; Security Incident Management Process.; ; Acceptable Use Policy; ; Access Control Policy; ; Data Classification and Handling Policy; ; Joiners, Movers, Leavers Process; ; Third Party System Access Procedure; ; Visitor Access Procedure; ; Change Management Procedure; ; Clear Desk & Screen Policy; ; Secure Disposal Policy
• 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: Redcentric operates an ISO20000-1 compliant Change Management Process. Objective is to minimise risk to services whose CIs are impacted.; ; Achieved by:-; ; Using standardised methods ensuring efficient handling of all changes using the Change Management Toolset.; ; Changes are recorded, classified, assessed, approved, prioritised, planned, tested, implemented and documented.; ; Changes are recorded against the relevant CMDB Configuration Item.; ; Inputs:-; ; Completed change records with Impact Assessment; ; Risk (Security) Assessment; ; Outputs:-; ; Accurately recorded change records including all stages of the change lifecycle; ; Changes by outcome; ; Forward Schedule of Change; ; The Change Advisory Board is the final approval stage in the Change Management process.
• Vulnerability management type: Complies with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v4.0 or SSAE-18 / ISAE 3402
• Vulnerability management approach: We operate a Vulnerability Management and Patch Management policy and process based on NCSC guidance. Good industry practice is adopted to ensure deployed services are protected at the edge by stateful next-generation firewalls with UTP/IDS/IPS enabled. Assets threats assessed by technical owners against the Design. Resultant risks are impacted, with critical ones contained immediately and patches applied within 48 hours where available. Automated patch management is supported by Kaseya, with end points managed by Microsoft Intune.; ; We subscribe to the NCSC CISP scheme for vulnerability notification and receive advance notifications from vendors, often before hitting the public domain.
• Protective monitoring type: Complies with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v4.0 or SSAE-18 / ISAE 3402
• Protective monitoring approach: Redcentric has implemented NCSC GPG-13 guidelines for Protective Monitoring (PM). We utilise a range of PM services including vulnerability management and auditing services such as SIEM. The 24*7*365 SIEM service ingests various logs combined with proactive threat analysis to assess potential impact to services. Response is provided by auto-generation of Service Management tickets on resolver groups for immediate triage and remediation. Incident response is often before threats are realised, due to externally provisioned threat analysis notifications. The combination of threat analysis, machine learning, trend analysis, IP blacklist services and Security Operations Centre SMEs provide robust and effective protection of services.
• 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: Redcentric operates a Security Incident Management policy, which outlines pre-defined processes for how suspected and actual security breaches (including data) must be managed. The policy covers all incidents which affect availability, confidentiality and integrity of data and technology. Common events such as phishing or viruses are included.; ; Users must report incidents to the ISO mailbox or Assurance team, who will create a Security Incident Record and initiate an investigation. Assurance will manage the incident to closure and decide whether external authorities are notified.; ; Incident reports are created and reported to the InfoSec Management Group and are available for audit.
• Post-quantum cryptography secure: No

Secure development

• Approach to secure software development best practice: Independent review of processes (for example CESG CPA Build Standard, ISO/IEC 27034, ISO/IEC 27001 or CSA CCM v4.0)

Public sector networks

• Connection to public sector networks: Yes
• Connected networks: Health and Social Care Network (HSCN)

Pricing

• Discount for educational organisations: No
• Free trial available: No

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

• Less than £250,000: 2%
• Between £250,000 and £500,000: 4%
• Between £500,001 and £1,000,000: 5%
• Between £1,000,001 and £2,500,000: 6%
• Between £2,500,001 and £5,000,000: 8%
• Over £5,000,001: 10%

Non-mandatory Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: Yes
• Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001: BSI
• ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date: Wednesday 10 September 2025
• What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover: There are no exclusions of controls within Redcentric’s ISO 27001:2022 ISMS (Information Security Management System) and all are shown in scope on the certificate.
• ISO 28000:2022 certification: No
• ISO 9001 certification: Yes
• Who accredited the ISO 9001 certification: BSI
• ISO 9001 accreditation date: Thursday 15 May 2025
• What the ISO 9001 doesn’t cover: Our ISO 9001:2015 certification is limited to the scope explicitly defined on the certificate and applies only to the activities, services, and locations listed therein. Accordingly, any services, processes, or activities that fall outside the defined scope of the design and delivery of managed telecommunications services, IT services, hosted voice and data services, data centre operations, workplace disaster recovery services, storage and Gov Cloud services are not covered.; The certification applies solely to Redcentric Solutions Ltd and the specific UK and international locations named on the certificate. Activities undertaken by other legal entities within the wider Redcentric Group, joint ventures, partners, or subcontractors operating independently of Redcentric’s certified management system are excluded unless explicitly stated. Similarly, customer-managed environments or services where Redcentric does not retain operational control are outside the scope of certification.; ISO 9001 certification does not extend to individual products, guarantee specific service performance outcomes, or provide assurance over regulatory, financial, commercial, or information security compliance. These areas are addressed through separate governance arrangements, contractual controls, and other applicable standards where relevant.; This clearly defined scope ensures transparency and confirms that certification applies only where Redcentric maintains full responsibility and control under its certified quality management system.
• Quality management systems (QMS): Yes
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: Yes
• Who accredited the PCI DSS certification: Gemserv Limited
• PCI DSS accreditation date: Thursday 6 November 2025
• What the PCI DSS doesn’t cover: Redcentric PCI DSS v4.0.1 certification applies only to services defined within the assessment scope of the Attestation of Compliance. Specifically, certification is limited to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), PCI Comply Voice Service, and Managed Firewall services. It does not extend to other managed or bespoke services delivered by Redcentric.; Services excluded from scope include “other managed services”, tailored to individual customer requirements. These may include applications, systems security services, IT support, physical security, terminal management systems, or other hosting and managed offerings that are not directly related to the assessed PCI services. Where such services are provided, they are assessed as part of the customer’s own PCI DSS compliance obligations rather than Redcentric's service provider certification.; The certification does not cover storage, processing, or transmission of cardholder data, as Redcentric does not perform these activities. Responsibility for cardholder data, including customer system components, applications & hosted data, remains with Redcentric clients. Redcentric does not have logical access to customers’ hosted systems, which further limits the certification scope.; Additionally, requirements relating to software development, merchant activities, handling cardholder media, direct access to cardholder data are excluded, as they are not applicable to Redcentric’s role as a managed service provider.
• Cyber essentials: Yes
• Please provide your Cyber Essentials Certificate Number: 15e9866d-2e5e-45da-9965-1c9176390caa
• Cyber essentials plus: Yes
• Please provide your Cyber Essentials Plus Certificate Number: Eacf9619-51c6-4294-bf31-e87af09dd4b6
• Other security certifications: Yes
• Any other security certifications: CHECK registered security tester

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
    • New apprenticeships on the contract workforce in the relevant area that meet the criteria set out in MAC 1b
    • Providing opportunities for, and measuring and monitoring of, staff workforce conditions over time, including employee engagement, involvement in decision-making and satisfaction and adapting to any changes in the results, with clear processes for acting on issues identified
    • Plans to engage the contract workforce in deciding the most important workplace issues to address
    • Employment contracts that reflect actual hours worked; steps taken to ensure employees understand their contracts and have the ability to review and adjust them if actual hours regularly exceed contracted hours
    • 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
    • Activities to cascade good practice on fair working conditions throughout the supply chain
    • Offer a pay and leave entitlement to all eligible staff who become kinship carers, ideally equivalent to statutory adoption pay and leave
    • Payment of more than the National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage (as appropriate) to the contract workforce
    • Monitoring and reporting of gender and ethnicity pay gaps and plans to address them where necessary
    • Entitlement to sick pay for the contract workforce, with provision in place for any staff who do not meet the earnings threshold for statutory sick pay, payment of sick pay from day one of absence and payment of staff on the contract workforce who are off sick a replacement income of 100% of their usual earnings for as long as possible
    • Plans for an appropriate income replacement policy for staff who are required to spend time away from work to care for a sick dependent or close relative
    • Understanding of in-work progression issues affecting 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 support in-work progression to help people in the contract workforce, to move into higher paid work by developing new skills relevant to the contract
    • 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
    • Support for educational attainment relevant to the contract, including training schemes that address skills gaps and result in recognised qualifications
    • 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
    • Measures to identify, mitigate and manage modern slavery risks relating to the contract and how these will be implemented
    • 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
    • How to ensure business decisions re: price/cost, short lead times, payment timescales do not create modern slavery risks in the supply chain

  • 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.

    • Understanding of employment and relevant skills issues, and of the education and training issues relating to the contract. Illustrative examples: demographics, skills shortages, new opportunities in high growth sectors, geographic/local community and skills/employment challenges
    • 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
    • Activities to identify opportunities to open up sub-contracts under the prime contract to a diverse range of businesses, including new businesses, entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs, VCSEs and mutuals
    • Plans for engaging a diverse range of businesses in engagement activities prior to appointing subcontractors (including activities prior to award of the main contract and during the contract term)
    • Activities that demonstrate a collaborative way to work with a diverse range of businesses as part of the supply chain
    • Ensuring accessibility to contracting and subcontracting opportunities for disabled business owners and employees
    • Structuring of the supply chain selection process to ensure fairness (e.g. anti-corruption) and encourages participation by a diverse range of businesses, including with regard to new businesses, entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs, VCSEs and mutual
    • Understanding of local demographics, needs and opportunities for the co-design of the goods, services and works to be delivered under the contract
    • Methods for engaging with different parts of the community (including the education system and charities representing the community) and how communities come together to inform decisions, strategy and projects to leave a positive legacy for future generations
    • Measures to involve local stakeholders and/or users in design (e.g. in the design of services, systems, products or buildings)
    • Plans for positive actions with community groups.
    • Measures for making facilities used in the delivery of the contract available for community groups, education or training
    • Measures to engage users and communities and build relationships to increase community integration build trust and influence how the contract is delivered
    • Plans to respond flexibly and adapt approaches to community engagement and initiatives
    • Collaborating with anchor institutions and community groups to make facilities available for education, training or community events

  • 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
    • Understanding of how to influence staff, suppliers, customers, communities and/or any other appropriate stakeholders through the delivery of the contract to support climate and nature protection and improvement
    • 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

    • Inclusive and accessible recruitment practices, and retention-focused activities, including those provided in the Guide for line managers on recruiting, managing and developing people with a disability or health condition
    • Introducing transparency to pay and reward processes
    • Offering a range of quality opportunities with routes of progression if appropriate, e.g. T Level industry placements, students supported into higher level apprenticeships.
    • 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 issues relating to entering the contract workforce
    • 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
    • Understanding barriers to access to health and social care services or employment opportunities e.g. digital inclusion
    • Inclusive and accessible recruitment practices, development practices and retention policies that support-focused activities including those provided in the Guide for line managers on recruiting, managing and developing which support people with a disability or health condition
    • 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

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