Astun Consultancy Services
Astun provides a consultancy service for the full range of Open Source GeoSpatial (OSGeo) technologies in addition to our own iShare solutions. The OSGeo stack includes QGIS, PostGIS, GeoServer, GeoNetwork, MapServer, OpenLayers, Leaflet, MapProxy or other OSGeo implementation in the cloud.
Features
- Design and architecture of a complete cloud geospatial solution
- Building a OSGeo implementation in the cloud
- Integrating your local systems and databases with a cloud solution
- Providing advice on cloud based security, network connectivity and authentication
- Getting you started with Amazon Web Services
- Training or mentoring your staff in deploying OSGeo technologies
- Supporting and/or managing your OSGeo cloud implementation
- Migrating solutions and data from 'on premise' to the cloud
- Configuring Enterprise metadata solutions
- Configuring an iShare in the Cloud implementation
Benefits
- Access to most knowledgeable Open Source Geo experts in UK
- Helping you make the most of your investment in iShare
- Helping you get up and running with the OSGeo Stack
- Building custom solutions based upon the OSGeo Stack
- Supporting community through sponsorship of the OSGeo Foundation
- Consultants include operations technicians, consultants, developers, architects and project managers
Pricing
- Education pricing available
Service documents
Request an accessible format
Framework
G-Cloud 15
Service ID
7 4 3 8 8 9 9 0 6 7 7 1 5 8 1
Contact
ASTUN TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
Astun Technology Sales Team
Telephone: 01372 744009
Email: sales@astuntechnology.com
About your service
- Service categories
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Cloud Support Services
Ongoing Support
- Other
Service scope
- Service constraints
- Remote login by Astun staff will be required to support any on-premise elements of the overall solution architecture, such as support for tools which are used to extract, transform and load data from the customer estate to the cloud environment.
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Yes
- Support response times
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Astun provide the support service during normal working hours, which are between 0900 and 1700 GMT, Monday to Friday, excluding Bank Holidays.
The response times for calls logged by the customer are set out in the accompanying Astun Cloud Support Conditions. - User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- Yes
- Online ticketing support accessibility
- WCAG 2.2 AA
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
- Web chat support
- No
- Support levels
- A Customer may use Support by logging a request on Astun’s Support Portal. First line support is provided via a permanently staffed Service Desk with second and third line support by consultancy and development teams for fault diagnosis and resolution. Customer access to web based Service Desk provides real time ticket management and correspondence on all customer tickets. For more details, please see our Astun Cloud Support Conditions.
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Not a reseller
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Conforms to BS7858:2019
- Government security clearance
- Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS)
Pricing
- Discount for educational organisations
- Yes
Architecture roles
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Solution architect | £1,275.00 |
Chief digital and data roles
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Chief data officer | £1,275.00 |
Cyber security roles
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Lead cyber security governance and risk manager | £1,275.00 |
Data roles
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Data analyst | £1,150.00 |
IT operations roles
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Application operations engineer | £1,150.00 |
Product and delivery roles
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Programme delivery manager | £1,275.00 |
Quality assurance testing (QAT) roles
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Senior QAT analyst | £1,150.00 |
Software development roles
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| DevOps engineer | £1,150.00 |
User-centred design roles
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Technical writer | £1,150.00 |
Non-mandatory Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- No
- ISO 28000:2022 certification
- No
- ISO 9001 certification
- No
- Quality management systems (QMS)
- Yes
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Cyber essentials
- Yes
- Please provide your Cyber Essentials Certificate Number
- 4a22f9be-2434-4332-b30e-325709b17072
- Cyber essentials plus
- Yes
- Please provide your Cyber Essentials Plus Certificate Number
- 73eeab73-0e12-4943-b337-3d2c0a37d3d2
- Other security certifications
- No
Social value
- Section B - Commitment for Future: Delivery
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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
- 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
- Monitoring of employee engagement rates (by protected characteristic) and, where necessary, the development of actions to ensure all voices are heard across the diversity of the workforce
- 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
- Payment of more than the National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage (as appropriate) to the contract workforce
- 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
- Support for educational attainment relevant to the contract, including training schemes that address skills gaps and result in recognised qualifications
- Volunteering opportunities for staff
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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
- 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
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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
- 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
- Inclusive and accessible development practices, including guidance for line managers on recruiting, managing and developing people with a disability or health condition
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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
- 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
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