4C Strategies Ltd

Independent Microsoft Teams Project Management

Our Independent Microsoft Teams Project Management service is for organisations that require an experienced Project Manager to deliver a transition to a Teams based collaboration environment.

Features

• Our PMs are experienced
• Our PMs are independent of all suppliers
• Our PMs have technically backgrounds
• Our PMs understand cloud services
• Our PMs can operate at Board level
• Our PMs can operate at a technical level
• Our PMs can chair multi-party meetings
• Our PMs can produce all project documentation
• Our PM is provided as a service not a person
• Our PMs have colleagues to fallback on when necessary

Benefits

• Our PM service minimise project timescales
• Our PM service allows your resources to concentrate on business-as-usual
• Our PM service allows you to benefit from our experiences
• Our PM service minimises the risk of time over-runs
• Our PM service minimises the risk of budget over-runs
• Our PM service provides high quality project documentation
• Our PM service provides a project audit trail
• Our PM service ensures the supplier delivers on time
• Our PM service ensures the supplier delivers the required quality
• Automation and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

£400 to £1,150 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 pridge@4c.co.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.

Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

711221847422055

Contact

Paul Ridge
01858 438938
pridge@4c.co.uk

Planning

• Planning service: Yes
• How the planning service works: To help organisations to plan for the implementation of a cloud service our PM will undertake a comprehensive 'discovery' process to gain a detailed understanding of all aspects of the project. Our PM will then use that understanding to produce a comprehensive draft project plan (using MS Project). After discussing the draft project plan with the client organisation, our PM will then finalise the plan and start to monitor progress.
• Planning service works with specific services: No

Training

• Training service provided: No

Setup and migration

• Setup or migration service available: Yes
• How the setup or migration service works: To help organisations to migrate to the cloud or between cloud services, our PM will produce a comprehensive draft project plan (using MS Project). After discussing the draft project plan with the client organisation and supplier, our PM will then finalise the plan and start to provide implementation project management services as required. These will include a) chairing project meetings, b) producing minutes, c) maintaining the Actions Log, d) maintaining the Risk Log, e) maintaining the Questions Log, f) maintaining the Decisions Log, g) maintaining the Project Expenditure record, h) producing the User Acceptance Test schedule, i) monitoring user acceptance testing, j) producing highlight reports, k) attending meetings as necessary
• Setup or migration service is for specific cloud services: No

Quality assurance and performance testing

• Quality assurance and performance testing service: No

Security testing

• Security services: No

Ongoing support

• Ongoing support service: No

Service scope

• Service constraints: None

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Email or online ticketing
• Support response times: We respond to emails within 1 working day.
• 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: We allocate a Lead Consultant to each assignment. The Lead Consultant is contactable via phone or email Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm.

Resellers

• Supplier type: Not a reseller

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Other security clearance
• Government security clearance: Up to Security Clearance (SC)

Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: No
• 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
  • Covid-19 recovery
  • Tackling economic inequality
  • Equal opportunity
  • Wellbeing

  Fighting climate change

  4C Strategies are actively, working toward a carbon neutral footprint by the end of 2024, by:; • Working from home where possible – making use of technology for communications and collaboration; • Encouraging staff who live locally, to walk or cycle to our head office ; • Using public transport, where feasible, to attend client sites; • Re-cycling and re-using wherever possible; • For our reduced carbon footprint, subscribing into a carbon off-set scheme in areas that will benefit our clients; ; In addition, our work advises client on the use of IT and as part of this we can advise on how they can improve fight against climate change – in particular in the following areas:; ; • Design Phase - we will review our client's requirements to determine the opportunities to build a green / sustainability approach into as many areas as possible. ; • Scope of Work - we will work with our clients to build a set of fundamental sustainability principles into the requirements; • Business Case - we will work with our clients (where appropriate) to build business cases and procurement processes that are sensitive to all the client's sustainability initiatives ; • Procurement Process - we will work with our client's to build sustainability principles and requirements into the heart of any Invitation to Tenders and associated evaluations.; • Delivery / Implementation - we will work with our clients to select suppliers to ensure that all commitments made during the procurement process are implemented and realised as part of any project.

  Covid-19 recovery

  4C Strategies will:; - Actively seek to create employment opportunities for those left unemployed by COVID-19; - Support the physical and mental health of employees affected by COVID-19, by offering private healthcare services and also coaching and mentoring services to those employees affected. This will reduce the demand on health and care services.; - Improve workplace conditions that support the COVID-19 recovery effort including working from home where possible, effective social distancing and sustainable travel activities; - Our IT Consultancy work facilitates new ways of working for our clients, which will help then to manage and recover from the impacts of COVID-19.

  Tackling economic inequality

  4C Strategies has a Social Value plan which aims to tackle economic inequality and includes the following:; ; We have a track record of hiring locally:; • 60% of our staff live within 15 miles our Head Office; • We promote from within, keeping knowledge and experience within our company; • Our staff are actively encouraged to undertake voluntary work in the community ; • Where possible we utilise local supply chains, by buying from local independent suppliers and local branches of national suppliers; • Becoming carbon neutral by 2022; ; We will produce an annual Social Value report that details our performance against the following Social Value areas:; • Hiring locally; • Community Volunteering; • Work from home and reduced travel; • Working towards a Carbon Neutral Footprint; • Spending locally with local businesses ; The above areas will all have a positive impact on the local economic, social and environmental well-being out our local area.; ; All of our work is project based and we will work with each of our clients to deliver our work in the most environmentally friendly way. In addition, our work advises client on the use of IT and as part of this we can advise on how they can improve their social values – in particular in the following areas:; ; • Encouraging the use of IT solutions that enable staff to work from home, with communication and collaboration tools and easy access to the applications that they require; • Working with clients to specify IT solutions which will have a low carbon footprint and to also include social value criteria within their IT procurements.; • Project Managing our client projects to ensure that social value commitments are realised as part of the IT solution deployments by the chosen suppliers.

  Equal opportunity

  4C Strategies has an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion policy in place. The aim of our policy is to ensure that no job applicant, employee or worker is discriminated against either directly or indirectly on the grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. Key elements of our action plan include:; • Training – to provide for all employees and contractors; • Recruitment and Selection – to adopt a consistent and non-discriminatory approach to job adverts and ensuring that all applicants who apply for jobs with us receive fair treatment and are considered solely on their ability; • Monitoring – to regularly monitor this our performance against this policy, so that appropriate action can be taken to ensure our compliance

  Wellbeing

  We are reviewing our multidimensional wellbeing for our employees, as a result of the recent pandemic. Key areas that we will be prioritising:; • Healthy Work-Life Balance ; • Staying Connected with colleagues; • Remote Team Building activities; • Mental Health Services from our Healthcare provider; • Physical Health; • Safe Working environment

Pricing

• Price: £400 to £1,150 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 pridge@4c.co.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.