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
Request an accessible format
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
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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
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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