PARETO FRONTIERS LIMITED

Green Book business case development with the five case model

Development of a Green Book complaint business case using the five case model approach to secure funding approval for a project, programme or portfolio. Supporting Senior Responsible Officers and Directors through the assurance approvals process. Financial and economic modelling, options appraisal and selection. Strategic, outline and full business case stages.

Features

• Strategic case development, linking project outcomes to organisational objectives
• Robust economic appraisal to identify a defensible preferred option
• Whole life cost financial modelling covering capital and resource costs
• Net present value, benefit cost ratio, return on investment analysis
• Optimism bias calculation and costing of risks
• Complex benefit monetisation, valuation and long term forecasting
• Project resourcing, scheduling and plan development
• Commercial case development and advisory
• Strategic options appraisal, multi criteria decision analysis
• Management of assurance and approvals process through to final approval

Benefits

• Increases likelihood of funding approval and senior stakeholder support
• Thorough consideration of delivery options and optimisation of delivery approach
• Reduces time from project inception to funding approval
• Improves robustness of business case under scrutiny from assurers
• Establishes basis for development of wide range of project documentation
• Reduces likelihood of unnecessary external interference, assurance or scrutiny
• Reduces likelihood of conditional approvals limiting delivery
• Makes approval of difficult-to-monetise aspects much more likely
• Clarifies project direction and mission with project team
• Can be iterated in future years, reducing future case costs

£400 to £1,200 a unit a day

Service documents

• Pricing document

  ODT

• Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card

  ODT

• Service definition document

  ODT

• Terms and conditions

  ODT

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

Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

730693362581587

Contact

Nick Muddle
07525024397
nick@paretofrontiers.com

Planning

• Planning service: Yes
• How the planning service works: The service include the robust appraisal of different delivery options for your project. Depending on the case stage, the team can facilitate workshops to develop high level implementation approaches, can cost more detailed delivery options or can develop more complex cost models to consider different implementation scenarios for an already selected option. ; ; For the selected option, the team can facilitate planning and scheduling of delivery with the project team or delivery partner, including the prioritisation of a delivery backlog, the breakdown of work into a defined methodology and the forecasting of delivery cadence accounting for risk.; ; With either an outline or more detailed implementation plan, the team can develop benefits models to forecast the realisation of benefit in line with delivery milestones, including the consideration of different scenarios and multi-point estimates of modelled parameters where required.; ; The team can consider the role of optimism bias and risk in an implementation plan, modelling risk scenarios with associated impacts to cost, schedule and quality of the delivered service. The team can calculate optimism bias to cover residual uncertainty and to more accurately forecast the eventual whole life cost of the implementation.; ; The team can also model ongoing run costs post-implementation.
• 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: The team can support the appraisal of the best option and approach for cloud migration and can appraise the relative costs and benefits of different services.; ; The team can facilitate market test exercises through to full procurements to appraise detailed responses from competing suppliers of target services.; ; The team can provide a comparative cost benefit analysis of on-premise and cloud based services to determine the net benefit of planned cloud migrations.
• 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: Yes
• Security services type: Cyber security consultancy

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 delivery service and does not include ongoing support services.

Resellers

• Supplier type: Not a reseller

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Conforms to BS7858:2019
• 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: No
• 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

  For change programmes related to fighting climate change, Pareto Frontiers can support buyers in including this in quantified economic appraisals, incorporating associated social value into the Net Present Social Value analysis of delivery options, enabling the proper consideration of social value as part of the business case process.

  Covid-19 recovery

  For change programmes related to covid-19 recovery, Pareto Frontiers can support buyers in including this in quantified economic appraisals, incorporating associated social value into the Net Present Social Value analysis of delivery options, enabling the proper consideration of social value as part of the business case process.

  Tackling economic inequality

  For change programmes related to tackling economic inequality, Pareto Frontiers can support buyers in including this in quantified economic appraisals, incorporating associated social value into the Net Present Social Value analysis of delivery options, enabling the proper consideration of social value as part of the business case process.

  Equal opportunity

  For change programmes related to promoting equal opportunity, Pareto Frontiers can support buyers in including this in quantified economic appraisals, incorporating associated social value into the Net Present Social Value analysis of delivery options, enabling the proper consideration of social value as part of the business case process.

  Wellbeing

  For change programmes related to promoting wellbeing, Pareto Frontiers can support buyers in including this in quantified economic appraisals, incorporating associated social value into the Net Present Social Value analysis of delivery options, enabling the proper consideration of social value as part of the business case process.

Pricing

• Price: £400 to £1,200 a unit a day
• Discount for educational organisations: No

Service documents

• Pricing document

  ODT

• Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card

  ODT

• Service definition document

  ODT

• Terms and conditions

  ODT

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