Quo Imus Limited (trading as Qi Consulting)

Cyber Security Planning, Design and Delivery

We provide a Cyber Security planning, design and delivery service to support your Cloud-based solutions, including implementing countermeasures, security processes and procedures; authentication; business design considerations including technical design and implementation of PKI service; and secure remote operation.

Features

• ICT security consultancy and delivery services
• Advice on countermeasures and security processes/procedures
• Authentication
• Technical design and implementation of PKI service
• Firewall design and implementation
• Secure remote operation

Benefits

• Improved confidentiality, integrity and availability of information
• More efficient and effective security processes
• Skills and knowledge transfer

£595 to £1,495 a person a day

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card

  ODT

• 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 nicola@qi-consulting.co.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.

Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

838509811793395

Contact

Nicola Innes
0207 793 4147
nicola@qi-consulting.co.uk

Planning

• Planning service: Yes
• How the planning service works: We provide services to help you plan and prepare for the implementation of a cloud solution. These include: developing and reviewing business vision and strategy; developing and reviewing business case and blueprint; business analysis and ‘as-is’ / ‘to-be’ processes; solution design and review; opportunity development; sourcing strategy and commissioning support; implementation planning and management; security architecture design and review; risk management; business continuity and recovery planning; project Assessment Reviews.; ; We can provide individuals - such as Project / Programme Managers, Technical and Business Architects, Network Specialists, CESG Certified Security Consultants and Risk Managers - to supplement your in-house capability; or a whole team to deliver an end-to-end service.; ; Our consultants are senior individuals with a wide experience of implementing business and technology solutions in the public sector. Our 100+ Gateway Reviewers have reviewed some of the largest and highest profile programmes in Government.
• 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: Following on from your Cloud strategy and solution design we can provide services help you plan and migrate your applications and data to the chosen platform.; ; We will work with you to evaluate the complexities and dependencies of moving from your current platform to the new one to reduce the risk of outage and data loss during the migration.; ; We can either act in an advisory role, providing experienced individuals to supplement your own team, or provide an end-to-end migration execution service. We can provide: a detailed migration project plan and migration methodology; risk assessment and mitigation planning; stakeholder management of migration challenges; performance and user experience benchmarking; migration readiness assessment; mission criticality and sensitivity; review of migration tools and options; contingency planning; security level requirements; review and rethink governance and security.
• 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 can undertake both performance testing and quality assurance activities on behalf of our clients.; ; Quality assurance can include both general project assurance such as the equivalent of OGC Gateway reviews and more technical assurance which addresses the quality of the service in terms of its combination of availability, performance and security. Where required our security specialists can audit against the CESG Information Assurance Maturity Model, and we can also undertake penetration testing.; ; For performance testing to ensure the systems meet their stated requirements, we can advise on the approach, define the scope and objectives, plan and manage the performance testing activities, as well as executing the tests and analysing the results.

Security testing

• Security services: Yes
• Security services type:
  • Security strategy
  • Security risk management
  • Security design
  • Cyber security consultancy
  • Security testing
• Certified security testers: Yes
• Security testing certifications:
  • CHECK
  • CREST
  • Tigerscheme

Ongoing support

• Ongoing support service: No

Service scope

• Service constraints: Telephone support is available during working hours, Monday to Friday.

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Email or online ticketing
• Support response times: Next working day
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: No
• Phone support: Yes
• Phone support availability: 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
• Web chat support: No
• Support levels: Customers are allocated dedicated Service Managers who will:- Maintain contact with key buyers at mutually agreed intervals and undertake regular contract review meetings;- Be available to answer requests or queries during the hours agreed. This is typically 09:00 - 17:00 office hours, 07:00 - 21:00 via mobile phone.

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
• ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date: 01/10/2023
• What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover: Our whole organisation is covered by our ISO 27001 certification
• ISO 28000:2007 certification: No
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: No
• Cyber essentials: Yes
• Cyber essentials plus: No
• Other security certifications: No

Social Value

• Social Value:

  Social Value

  • Fighting climate change
  • Covid-19 recovery
  • Tackling economic inequality
  • Equal opportunity
  • Wellbeing

  Fighting climate change

  Our organisation is committed to fighting climate change and we have a number of environmental assessments, including climate change, within our ISO 14001 Environmental Management System, this looks at the changes we can make to ensure we are always doing as much as possible to fight climate change and protect the environment. Our ISO 14001 certification covers the whole of our organisation and we are certified every year. Our current certification runs until 5th July 2025 and our certificate number is 160062021. We also have both Environment and Climate Change and Protection of the environment policies in place and this can be provided if requested.

  Covid-19 recovery

  Our organisation supports the continued work within communities to recover from the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. We will always look to use our employees and consultants expertise to assist in any opportunities that arise from the pandemic and in particular the recovery economically for local communities. We will also look to aid the economic impact from the pandemic by, where possible, providing discounted rates to organisations where our consultants work to assist with the pandemic recovery in the most affected areas.

  Tackling economic inequality

  Our organisation tackles economic inequality by having no boundary on where we would accept our employees/consultants from and ensuring employees are trained to offer opportunities to the best suited candidate. Our ISO 9001 Quality Management System is in place to ensure that no inequality takes place during the selection process and that we achieve the best result for our organisation, consultants and customers. Our current ISO 9001 Quality Management System is certified until 30/09/2025 and our certificate number is FS 78762. We also offer roles within our organisation to those from backgrounds that typically find it hard to get employment and have both an Equality and Diversity Policy and an ethical trading policy in place and this can be provided if requested. In addition to this we are also signatories of diversity works for London. We are also able to provide our staff with "free skills" such as interview techniques and training, CV development, Profile development, Career support (direction/suitability) and expert advice on training to progress you career with us. We have also offered the opportunity for our consultants and staff to work together in working groups that provides the transfer of skills and knowledge, we found that these working groups provide those with perhaps less skills or expertise the chance to take away a huge amount of knowledge from the more experienced members of the working group, we also find that the more experienced or skilled members of the groups appreciated the opportunity to share knowledge and give back to our community of employees and consultants to better the collective skills and experience we can offer, these working groups not charged for and provide such a valuable exercise, we are planning to increase the number of working groups year on year due to the positive responses from attendees.

  Equal opportunity

  Our organisation has both an Equality and Diversity policy as well as a Quality policy in place. These policy can be provide on request. We ensure that all of our company policies are followed by both employee’s and consultants through the implementation of our 9001 Quality Management System. Our current ISO 9001 Quality Management System is certified until 30/09/2025 and our certificate number is FS 78762. Our organisation is committed to this policy of equal opportunities for all employees, workers and applicants and shall adhere to such a policy at all times and we review on an on-going basis all aspects of recruitment to avoid unlawful or undesirable discrimination. The policy details the following. - We will treat everyone equally irrespective of sex, sexual orientation, marital status, age, disability, race, colour, ethnic or national origin, religion, political beliefs or membership or non-membership of a Trade Union and places an obligation upon all staff to respect and act in accordance with the policy. We are committed to providing training for all its staff in equal opportunities practice. -We shall not discriminate unlawfully when deciding which candidate/temporary worker is submitted for a vacancy or assignment, or in any terms of employment or terms of engagement for temporary workers. We ensure that each candidate is assessed only in accordance with the candidate’s merits, qualification and ability to perform the relevant duties required by the particular vacancy. -We will not accept instructions from clients that indicate an intention to discriminate unlawfully. -We are also signatories to Diversity Works for London. Our policies for delivering equal opportunities provide staff with clear direction on the following in more detail :- Sex and Race Discrimination, Disability Discrimination, Age Discrimination, Complaints and Monitoring Procedures, Part-Time Workers, Harassments Policy, Diversity Policy, and Gender Reassignment Policy.

  Wellbeing

  We offer support to our staff to ensure the wellbeing and mental health of staff is considered. Our directors within the organisation ensure that they engage with staff regularly and assess their state in terms of mental health and wellbeing, if they identify and particular indicators that seem to suggest that wellbeing of the staff member is questioned a discussion will be had in private to discover if there is any issue and how best to resolve this, solutions could be reducing workload and using other staff to spread this workload or giving some time off for recovery. Our organisation also offers a generous amount of holiday time and flexible working hours to ensure that staff are able to plan work around their lives to ensure that the wellbeing and mental health of employees is protected. The wellbeing and mental health of all our staff is important to the company ethos. We believe it is important that all our employee’s maintain a healthy work life balance to ensure that they preform best at work. Some ways in which we ensure this is by offering a generous amount of holiday time and flexible working hours.

Pricing

• Price: £595 to £1,495 a person a day
• Discount for educational organisations: No

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card

  ODT

• 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 nicola@qi-consulting.co.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.