The Public Service Consultants (trading as The PSC)

Business case development: planning service

Business case development for your cloud-based service. Includes full HM Treasury 'five case' support across Strategic Outline, Outline, and Full Business cases (or Agile Business case if preferred). Equality impact assessment and sustainability assessments and a comprehensive market scan; along with presenting at informal and formal meetings. Remote/office-based.

Features

  • Business case generation following HM Treasury guidelines
  • Projections of likely future service demand
  • Development of the case for change
  • Comprehensive market scan to inform build-or-buy decisions
  • Performance and technology uptake competitor benchmarking
  • Stakeholder engagement (e.g., interviews, focus groups, social media surveys)
  • Solution options development and appraisal - risk analysis and mitigation
  • Equality impact and sustainability assessments
  • Analysis of current and historic performance
  • Presenting the case at informal and formal meetings

Benefits

  • Successfully written business cases for high value programmes
  • Agile or '5 case' models
  • Cross-government experience giving knowledge of successful cases and arguments
  • Delivery planning (including resource prioritisation and critical path analysis)
  • Work can be completed remotely or at your office

Pricing

£500 to £2,850 a unit a day

Service documents

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Framework

G-Cloud 13

Service ID

7 9 7 6 5 9 0 6 8 2 3 8 3 5 8

Contact

The Public Service Consultants (trading as The PSC) Catherine Mulcahy
Telephone: 020 39652033
Email: hello@thepsc.co.uk

Planning

Planning service
Yes
How the planning service works
The PSC produces user-focused, information-led business cases which support investment decisions on cloud-based solutions and legacy system removal to transform business services.

Working with clients and their customers we develop robust technical business cases (in HM Treasury format) which include: strategic, technical, financial, commercial, economic and management elements.

Working with clients and their customers we develop robust business cases which include: strategic, financial, commercial, economic, managerial elements. We have significant expertise in the HM Treasury business case format (for example, the HMT “Green book”) and submitting business cases including for Treasury Spending Reviews. We also deliver Agile business cases as appropriate.

We work collaboratively with clients to develop robust and compelling digital-focused business cases, incorporating best-practice in digital technologies and utilising cloud solutions. We can support your staff in presenting these to formal and informal boards.

Our cases have led to the successful funding of cloud-based projects worth hundreds of millions of pounds.
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
This service can provide the analysis required to succesfully and economically migrate to the cloud or between different cloud service providers.
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
General constraints are covered in the service description document for this service; the exact scope of any engagement will be as agreed between us.

User support

Email or online ticketing support
No
Phone support
Yes
Phone support availability
9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
Web chat support
No
Support levels
This is primarily a planning service and our team will work directly with you for the duration of the engagement. Afterwards, we are happy to support you with a board presentation, informal questions, and further consultancy as necessary.

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
Yes
Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
SN Registrars (Holdings) Limited
ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
29/11/2021
What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
Our ISO/IEC 27001:2013 accreditation covers us for 'Management Consultancy Support to Organisations involved in Public Services'. The Statement of Applicability confirms the following are not applicable to us because of certain justifications, including measures we already have in place: a) Access control to program source code (under the 'System and Application Access Control' heading); b) Key management (under the 'Cryptography' heading); c) Working in secure areas, and d) Delivery and loading areas (under the 'Physical and Environmental Security' heading); e) Information back-up and f) Clock synchronisation (under the 'Backup' heading); g) Segregation in networks (under the 'Communication Security' heading); h) Protecting application services transactions and i) Secure system engineering principles (under the 'System Acquisition, Development and Maintenance' heading)
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

The PSC has a number of pledges we have committed to in order to increase our Enviornmental Sustainability:
1. Become a net zero organisation by 2021, taking sustainable approaches to travel and our office whilst providing value for money for our clients.
2. Ensure 80% of our supplier and partner contracts are with organisations that have ambitious sustainability policies by 2025.
3. Expand the positive environmental impact of our work with clients and partners.

Pricing

Price
£500 to £2,850 a unit a day
Discount for educational organisations
No

Service documents

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 hello@thepsc.co.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.