Accenture SAP Commerce Cloud
SAP Commerce Cloud is the leading digital platform that allows you to connect with your customers and citizens anytime, from any device, driving digital transformation. Enabling you to put your customers at the heart of everything you do. Commerce Cloud contains Citizen, B2B, B2C and telecommunications templates for rapid implementation
Features
- Powerful product content management
- Fully integrated web content management and merchandising tools
- Advanced search and navigation
- Advanced personalisation and marketing
- Optional Order Management and Fulfilment
- Modern data integration tools
- Omni-channel touchpoint integration
- Complex promotion management rules engine
- Support for product bundling and configuration
- Citizen, B2B, B2C and Industry relevant accelerators
Benefits
- Full featured commerce and web platform
- Lower development and implementation costs
- Easier upgrades, maintenance and upgrades
- Better visibility of the customer across all touchpoints
- Optimized web search/SEO
- Easily enrich and publish product data
- Fully responsive site
- Multiple language support from the same site
- Publish content from an easy to use graphical interface
- Easily manage content and products across multiple sites
Pricing
Service documents
Request an accessible format
Framework
G-Cloud 15
Service ID
7 5 2 9 0 4 5 9 5 7 1 2 8 4 1
Contact
ACCENTURE (UK) LIMITED
John Swanston
Telephone: +44 7827898900
Email: UK.TenderMonitoring@accenture.com
About your service
- Service categories
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Applications
Production and operations
- Other operations
- Multi cloud support
- Yes
Service scope
- Software add-on or extension
- No
- Cloud deployment model
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- Public cloud
- Private cloud
- Hybrid cloud
- Service constraints
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Weekly maintenance is Sunday 2:00 a.m. to Sunday 6:00 a.m. local time
Hotfix collection is Biweekly, Sunday 2:00 a.m. to Sunday 6:00 a.m. local time
Quarterly upgrades are up to four times a year from Saturday 3:00 a.m. to Sunday 3:00 a.m. local time. SAP will provide advance information to customer about the planned upgrade scheduling. - System requirements
- Hosted by SAP in MS Azure, licence included
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Yes
- Support response times
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24x7 Mission Critical Support for P1 and P2
issues (English only)
Non Mission Critical Support for P3 and P4
issues during business hours (English only)
Monday to Friday 8 am
to 6 pm (Local Time Zone),
excluding local holidays - 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
- Yes
- Web chat support availability
- 24 hours, 7 days a week
- Web chat support accessibility standard
- WCAG 2.2 AA
- Web chat accessibility testing
- ServiceNow products are tested with the following assistive technologies: JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver. Further, Accenture can develop and deploy chatbots powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) that can provide online web chat support (requirements dependent) at an additional cost. Accenture also utilise Microsoft Teams which can be another means of support but is reliant upon the customer also using a Microsoft Teams solution.
- Onsite support
- Yes, at extra cost
- Support levels
- Accenture provides support for all SAP products for both technical and functional support. Our support model is time based with time called off in 30 minute increments against an agreed number of days with each day being 7.5 hours. All of our UK based support consultants are highly experienced in Business One solutions and implementations and so we have one charging rate for all consultants as well as a management fee depending on the size and scale of the required model - such as if additional services are request like out of hours support or system monitoring. A named account director and named service delivery manager are assigned to all of our support accounts. Both these individuals perform roadmap planning, and monthly reviews with each of our customers whilst also ensure SLA compliance.
- Support available to third parties
- Yes
- AI chatbot
- No
Onboarding and offboarding
- Getting started
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Accenture provides training program to match customer needs, whether this is train-the-trainer, end-user training or a blend of both methods. Administrator training is also provided. Training of key users assigned to the project occurs organically as part of the project knowledge transfer process.
The solution in-built documentation is of a very high standard, linking help articles to visual indicators on screen.
SAP also provide a wealth of online release and help information, including video tutorials and direct service support. - Service documentation
- Yes
- Documentation formats
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- HTML
- End-of-contract data extraction
- Data may be extracted through analytics functionality or through the use of the APIs.
- End-of-contract process
- At the end of the agreed term, the contract may be renewed or terminated. In the event of termination, an exit plan would be assembled in advance with steps and charges discussed and mutually agreed.
- Documentation accessibility standard
- WCAG 2.2 AA
Using the service
- Web browser interface
- Yes
- Supported browsers
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- Microsoft Edge
- Firefox
- Chrome
- Safari
- Opera
- Application to install
- No
- Designed for use on mobile devices
- Yes
- Differences between the mobile and desktop service
- Responsive and adaptive design allow Fiori apps to run on desktop, tablets, smartphones, and hybrid devices. As users switch across devices, Fiori apps automatically accommodate the resolution, image size, and scripting. Users can work how and where they want, regardless of device.
- Service interface
- Yes
- User support accessibility
- WCAG 2.2 AA
- Description of service interface
- Self-service admin interface available
- Accessibility standards
- WCAG 2.2 AA
- Accessibility testing
- N/A
- API
- Yes
- What users can and can't do using the API
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Hybris Commerce is based on web standards and contains numerous APIs:
* Import , Update, Read customer
* Integration with Marketing
* Import Product Categories and Hierarchies
* Import Products and Product Category Assignments
* Import prices
* Import promotions and coupons
* Digital Asset Management - import media
Headless commerce
Event drive rapid development - API documentation
- Yes
- API documentation formats
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- HTML
- API sandbox or test environment
- Yes
- Customisation available
- Yes
- Description of customisation
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An administrator can customise the following within the service:
* Site design and content
* Product content
* Custom attributes and search facets
* Merchandising / Promotions
* Customer Journey process flow
* Languages used/translations
* Target groups/Personalised content
* Online forms
Scaling
- Independence of resources
- The project will be sized based on expected and peak demands
Analytics
- Service usage metrics
- Yes
- Metrics types
- Full suite of dashboard metrics available
- Reporting types
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- Real-time dashboards
- Regular reports
- Reports on request
- Resource tagging
- Yes
- FOCUS resource tagging
- Yes
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Reseller (no extras)
- Organisation whose services are being resold
- Multiple. Refer to our additional resale terms and conditions.
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Other security clearance
- Government security clearance
- Developed Vetting (DV)
Asset protection
- Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Data storage and processing locations
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- United Kingdom
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- User control over data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Datacentre security standards
- Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 4.0)
- Penetration testing frequency
- At least every 6 months
- Penetration testing approach
- Another external penetration testing organisation
- Protecting data at rest
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- Physical access control, complying with SSAE-18 / ISAE 3402
- Encryption of all physical media
- Data sanitisation process
- Yes
- Equipment disposal approach
- Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v4.0, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001
- Data sanitisation type
- Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation / Secure Erase
Data importing and exporting
- Data export approach
- Users cannot export their data given the nature of the tool. It is possible for admin to export data based on export jobs if required
- Data export formats
- CSV
- Data import formats
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- CSV
- Other
- Other data import formats
- JSON
Data-in-transit protection
- Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
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- Private network or public sector network
- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
- IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
- Other
- Other protection between networks
- All SAP Cloud systems are configured to use secure communication in accordance with the protection requirement of the transmitted uses at least 128-bit symmetric key or 2,048-bit asymmetric key, as well as strong and internationally recognized algorithms.
- Data protection within supplier network
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- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
- IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
Availability and resilience
- Guaranteed availability
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System availability SLA is 99.5% system availability during each calendar month for production versions.
Credits are 2% of Monthly Subscription Fees for each 1% below 99.5% System Availability, not to exceed 100% of Monthly Subscription Fees - Approach to resilience
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SAP data centres have the following features to ensure continuity of service:
* Redundant additional power network in case of power outage
* Backup batteries and generators
* Redundant additional coolant systems in case of coolant system failure
* Redundant additional internet connection to guarantee connectivity
* Data stored in backup location to save-guard against natural disasters and malicious attacks - Outage reporting
- Where here is a service outage, all affected customers will receive email updates from SAP to their nominated IT representative for each of their affected systems. Details included are the system affected, the date/time of the incident start and when it was resolved, a description of the original issue, details of the root cause, problem resolution and corrective action being taken to prevent repeat occurrences.
Identity and authentication
- User authentication needed
- Yes
- User authentication
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- Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
- Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
- Username or password
- Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
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Access is restricted using assigned business roles and organisational management assignment.
Restrictions are contextual (e.g. users can see data relating to them, their team, their territory; managers can see data relating to their team members) and can be restricted at different levels:
* Screen access (work centres and views)
* Fields can be write, read-only or restricted
* Actions (e.g. escalating a ticket, exporting specific data to Excel )
Additionally, page layouts and the model rule editor enable setting attributes including visibility of screen sections or specific fields by business role or data (e.g. hide field "x" for complaint tickets). - Access restriction testing frequency
- At least every 6 months
- Management access authentication
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- Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
- Username or password
Audit information for users
- Access to user activity audit information
- Users have access to real-time audit information
- How long user audit data is stored for
- User-defined
- Access to supplier activity audit information
- Users have access to real-time audit information
- How long supplier audit data is stored for
- At least 12 months
- How long system logs are stored for
- User-defined
Security governance
- Named board-level person responsible for service security
- Yes
- Security governance certified
- Yes
- Security governance standards
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- CSA CSM version 4.0
- ISO/IEC 27001
- Information security policies and processes
- Accenture aligns the security to the global policies of the organisation. Included within those policies are specific guidelines for identifying, reporting, and tracking security related tasks. This is then reviewed by an internal audit and compliance team, and audited by a third party annually.
- 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
- We align our change management processes to the customer's requirements, however, for internal changes we have a Change advisory Board to review all change requests and approval is only given from the CAB to proceed with any change.
- Vulnerability management type
- Complies with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v4.0 or SSAE-18 / ISAE 3402
- Vulnerability management approach
- We have an Annual Vulnerability check and based on the findings from that check we create tasks to eliminate any found vulnerabilities.
- Protective monitoring type
- Complies with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v4.0 or SSAE-18 / ISAE 3402
- Protective monitoring approach
- SAP has Security Information and Event Management systems (SIEM) for analysis, reporting and alerting. All critical systems and infrastructure components within the SAP Cloud need to log relevant data, which is stored for a minimum of six (6) months. This is ensured via the security configuration compliance checks and event monitoring. General security monitoring is performed 24x7 for all activities. Resulting warnings and alerts are processed via ticketing system and critical events are handled according to the incident management process
- 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
- All security incidents are submitted to formal event reporting and SAP follows escalation procedures based upon nature and scope of an incident. SAP leverages security incident management processes to enable the restore of service operation as fast as possible, to minimize the adverse impact on business operations, quickly controlling vulnerabilities. Security incidents are monitored and tracked in cooperation with defined communication channels until resolved. A Breach is a confirmed security incident in which sensitive, protected, personally identifiable information (PII) or confidential data is: exposed, transmitted, copied, viewed, stolen or used by an individual or a group unauthorized to do so.
- Post-quantum cryptography secure
- Yes
Secure development
- Approach to secure software development best practice
- Conforms to a recognised standard, but self-assessed
Public sector networks
- Connection to public sector networks
- No
Pricing
- Discount for educational organisations
- No
- Free trial available
- No
Discount percentage by annual call-off contract value (excluding VAT)
- Less than £250,000
- 0%
- Between £250,000 and £500,000
- 0%
- Between £500,001 and £1,000,000
- 0%
- Between £1,000,001 and £2,500,000
- 0%
- Between £2,500,001 and £5,000,000
- 0%
- Over £5,000,001
- 0%
Non-mandatory Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
- BSI
- ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
- Wednesday 16 April 2025
- What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
- N/A
- ISO 28000:2022 certification
- No
- ISO 9001 certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO 9001 certification
- BSI
- ISO 9001 accreditation date
- Friday 29 September 2023
- What the ISO 9001 doesn’t cover
- N/A
- Quality management systems (QMS)
- Yes
- CSA STAR certification
- Yes
- CSA STAR accreditation date
- Thursday 24 April 2025
- CSA STAR certification level
- Level 2: CSA STAR Attestation
- What the CSA STAR doesn’t cover
- N/A
- PCI certification
- No
- Cyber essentials
- Yes
- Please provide your Cyber Essentials Certificate Number
- F79f88e7-a910-4989-9781-a20943ad388b
- Cyber essentials plus
- Yes
- Please provide your Cyber Essentials Plus Certificate Number
- 3df155b7-a6c9-4733-a8a6-02e57709f3b6
- 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
- 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
- Ensuring new workers are informed of their right to join a trade union
- 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
- 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 these flow down the supply chain and are monitored Illustrative examples include reporting, site visits, audits, etc.
- How to ensure business decisions re: price/cost, short lead times, payment timescales do not create modern slavery risks in the supply chain
- How the supplier will work with NGOs, trade unions or other businesses to address modern slavery risk
- Means of influencing staff, suppliers, customers, communities and/or any other appropriate stakeholders with respect to modern slavery risks relating to the contract
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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 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
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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 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
- Advertising of supply chain opportunities openly and to ensure they are accessible to a diverse range of businesses, including advertising all subcontracting opportunities on Contracts Finder
- 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
- Support for community-led initiatives relevant to the contract. Illustrative examples: improving transport links; reducing loneliness; helping with English language proficiency; and facilitating social mixing among people with different backgrounds
- Collaborating with anchor institutions and community groups to make facilities available for education, training or community events
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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
- 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
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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 employment and skills issues, and of the skills and employment shortages of high growth sectors relating to the contract
- Creation of employment opportunities particularly for those who face barriers to employment, such as prison leavers, care leavers and/or who are located in deprived areas, and for people in industries with known skills shortages or in high growth sectors
- Delivery of training schemes and programmes to address any identified skills gaps and under-representation in the workforce for the contract (e.g. prison leavers, care leavers, kinship carers, disabled people)
- Advertising, promotional and outreach activities designed to raise awareness of the offer to reach the target cohort
- Understanding of the issues affecting the representation of disabled people in the workforce in the market, industry or sector relevant to the contract, and in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key sub-contractors
- Collection of the views and expertise of disabled people and their representative organisations on successfully supporting disabled employees or applicants
- 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
- 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: 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 the issues affecting the development of new skills by target cohort
- Understanding of the underlying factors affecting improvements to reduce barriers to entry and training schemes for the target cohort(s) related to the contract workforce
- Other measures to offer development opportunities for the target cohort(s) in the contract workforce
- Advertising, promotional and outreach activities designed to raise awareness of the offer to reach the target cohort
- 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
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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
- 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
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