Catapult CX Limited

Managed Service - Software Engineering as a Service

Provides organisations with expert software engineering leadership and DevSecOps teams to transform your software engineering capabilities.

Create your own software engineering function by having Catapult not only guide your team but also providing technical assistance as part of the team, leaving you with a self sufficient highly effective engineering capability.

Features

• Actionable advice from expert CTOs and Engineering leads
• Deep understanding of latest engineering methodologies, integration services
• Effective Software configuration management, Version Control automated Quality Assurance
• Clear Backlog Management, Defect Tracking Work Prioritisation, testing methods
• Integration with OKTA, Development in AWS Services with business support
• Maritime Services, including UKSR Bunkers and Beacons registries
• Fully automated infrastructure creation, testing, scaling, and destruction
• Architecture design, and appropriate language selection
• Quality Metrics reported from appropriate stages of the pipeline
• Support and maintenance, fully managed from deployment to decommissioning

Benefits

• Reduces Risks and Costs
• Improves Product and Service Quality
• Builds internal understanding and capability
• Provides traceability between requirements, tests and defects and code
• Fully automating infrastructure deployments using Packer and Terraform

£950 to £2,050 a person a day

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 info@catapult.cx. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.

Framework

G-Cloud 13

Service ID

793036320159535

Contact

Alex Fishlock
020 3457 1374
info@catapult.cx

Planning

• Planning service: Yes
• How the planning service works: As part of the software engineering process, we help you effectively plan for deploying the software into the cloud.; ; We will show you how to design your architecture to be secure, scaleable and efficient.; ; We will guide and assist you to design the solution, prepare for, and automate all aspects of getting your software deployed into the cloud.
• 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: As part of the software engineering as a service, and depending on your specific requirements we will show you how to:; ; 1) Make effective use of any cloud services including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, including from Microsoft, Google and Amazon.; ; 2) Automate everything along the engineering process including migrating to and setting up cloud services.; ; 3) Automate the migration and obfuscation of data between environments, and moving to and from cloud services.
• Setup or migration service is for specific cloud services: No

Quality assurance and performance testing

• Quality assurance and performance testing service: Yes
• How the quality assurance and performance testing works: We provide pro-active quality and risk management, embedding quality practices and instilling quality oriented behaviour throughout your teams; ; Reporting metrics for you fully automated quality assurance and performance testing enables your teams to effectively prioritise their work, and gives transparency to the improved quality over time.; ; We will show you how to monitor in-life performance, and when SLAs are breached to then automate actions such as scaling and the creation of tickets back into the engineering pipeline.

Security testing

• Security services: Yes
• Security services type:
  • Security design
  • Security testing
• Certified security testers: Yes
• Security testing certifications: Other
• Other security testing certifications: CISSP

Ongoing support

• Ongoing support service: No

Service scope

• Service constraints: There are no constraints. We provide a flexible service.

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Yes, at extra cost
• Support response times: This would be dependent on the client requirements and agreed ‘response’ service level agreement (SLA). We operate a number of different bespoke SLA models across our client base.
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: Yes
• Online ticketing support accessibility: WCAG 2.1 AA or EN 301 549
• Phone support: Yes
• Phone support availability: 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
• Web chat support: No
• Support levels: We supply support to your engineering team. The support level is agreed at time of negotiation, but usually includes ticket, phone and email based support.; ; The Catapult team can support you on everything for your Software Engineering capability. We develop toolchains and guide you on best practice for config, helping to make your organisation as efficient and productive as possible – whether you’re a team of 100 or 100,000.; Our experts can act as the delegated admin for your tools, making configurations on your behalf whilst internal teams are still learning the ropes. We also offer health checks and upgrades to make sure your tools and processes are being run as effectively and efficiently as possible.

Resellers

• Supplier type: Not a reseller

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Conforms to BS7858:2019
• Government security clearance: Up to Developed Vetting (DV)

Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: Yes
• Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001: BSI Group
• ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date: 12/3/2022
• What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover: Nothing
• 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

• Fighting climate change:

  Fighting climate change

  We have Carbon Reduction Plan, which has been completed in accordance with PPN 06/21 and associated guidance and reporting standard for Carbon Reduction Plans.; ; Emissions have been reported and recorded in accordance with the published reporting standard for Carbon Reduction Plans and the GHG Reporting Protocol corporate standard and uses the appropriate Government emission conversion factors for greenhouse gas company reporting.; ; Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions have been reported in accordance with SECR requirements, and the required subset of Scope 3 emissions have been reported in accordance with the published reporting standard for Carbon Reduction Plans and the Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard.; ; The Carbon Reduction Plan has been reviewed and signed off by the board of directors (or equivalent management body).; ; In order to achieve this our plan, we undertake carbon-saving activities such as: Working from home rather than commuting and maintaining a fully staffed office. Use public transport rather than private. Recycle all recyclables. Fully electric company fleet. Use sustainable suppliers. Extensive use of online meetings and events.
• Covid-19 recovery:

  Covid-19 recovery

  Catapult has highly flexible working conditions. We offer employment to people who do not require an office to work in, as we utilise the latest online technology that enables us to prefer and encourage home and remote working over working from an office.; ; Remote working allows us to hire those left unemployed by COVID-19 from anywhere in the country; it also enables us to employ people who need to socially distance or are highly vulnerable and for them to fully participate. We find that remote working democratises our company.; ; As a growing technology consultancy, we are in a high growth sector, so the employment we offer is of high value for our employees. We are leaders in the use of cutting edge online tools that enable us to work remotely much more effectively. ; ; The flexible working practices and tooling are a vital support to those people who are suffering from the physical and mental health of people affected by the covid-19 pandemic, as well as providing great opportunities for knowledge sharing and cross-company training to happen.
• Tackling economic inequality:

  Tackling economic inequality

  Catapult is a small dynamic and growing company. We are an entrepreneur-led company. We partner with micro-companies and SMEs to bolster our capacity to scale and offer specialist skills; this has been core from the start of our company and is still fundamental to the success we have today. Our micro-company supply chain provides specialist technical, security and engineering skills, and are located in parts of the United Kingdom. ; ; We regularly hire young or disadvantaged people and provide them with training both formal, and on-the-job training, so that we foster untapped innovation that perhaps otherwise might be lost. ; ; Our specialist areas of technology and consulting have always had skills shortages, but nonetheless we are closing the national skills gaps and creating wealth by creating more specialists. We require our micro-company supply chain to do the same, since as our customer base grows we need to scale our supply chain as well.; ; Widening our supply chain and hiring further staff allows us to bring in more skills and cross populate these skills between our combined team, thereby providing future-proofed commercial growth,, all the while bringing vital services to the public sector.; ; One example of an integrated supply chain bringing benefits is in cyber. During the initial months of the Ukraine invasion, the intensity of cyber attacks increased on one of our public sector customers. We utilised various micro and small businesses combined with two large enterprises (AWS and OKTA), to achieve less than one-hour response and mitigation to the cyber attacks. By doing this we provided influence to our public sector customer and our complete supply chain, providing both support resistance and capacity in a full end to end service wrap.
• Equal opportunity:

  Equal opportunity

  We have an Equality and Diversity Policy which is dedicated to encouraging a supportive and inclusive culture amongst the whole workforce. It is within our best interest to promote diversity and eliminate discrimination in the workplace.; ; We ensure that all employees and job applicants are given equal opportunity and that our organisation is representative of all sections of society. Each employee is respected and valued and able to give their best as a result.; ; The policy reinforces our commitment to providing equality and fairness to all in our employment and not provide less favourable facilities or treatment on the grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, ethnic origin, colour, nationality, national origin, religion or belief, or sex and sexual orientation. We are opposed to all forms of unlawful and unfair discrimination.; ; All employees, no matter whether they are part-time, full-time, or temporary, are treated fairly and with respect. When selecting candidates for employment, promotion, training, or any other benefit, it will be on the basis of their aptitude and ability.; ; Catapult are a proud member of the Living Wage Foundation, and we have always paid well above the living wage as defined by LWF.; ; In March 2022, we had 40% of employees identifying as Female; 50% of our company board are female. We operate a ‘blind’ recruitment process we provide internships for University students, (e.g. Durham, UCL and Bournemouth Universities). 45% of the workforce have declared that they have Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic origins.; ; 9% of employees have declared they have a disability.; ; 100% of our people work remotely, with flexible working hours, and advanced ergonomic workstation assessments; this encourages people who are unable to travel, leave their homes, or with home care obligations to work with us, and many do.

Pricing

• Price: £950 to £2,050 a person a day
• Discount for educational organisations: No

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 info@catapult.cx. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.