STRATEGIC BLUE SERVICES LIMITED
Cloud FinOps Consultancy
Cloud FinOps Consultancy, and our FinOps review, sits at the intersection of cloud technology and finance. We advise customers on FinOps and cloud related topics, such as cloud cost optimisation, governance, cost planning, cross-charging, intercompany billing, and supporting the creation of a Cloud FinOps practice.
Features
- Access to independent Cloud Finance experts
- Review and enhance Cloud FinOps governance
- Assist the development of Cloud FinOps Culture across the organisation
- Help you to improve chargeback and showback capabilities
- Enable effective budget assignment and tracking of cloud costs
- Review and improve the many technical cost optimisation processes
- Review financial optimisation and improve the cloud cost rates
- Manage and mitigate risks in peak spending
- Extensive guidance on building an effective Cloud FinOps practice
- Cloud Governance due diligence support
Benefits
- Improve your cloud FinOps practice quickly
- Improve cloud value and ROI
- Enable a business orientated cloud centre of excellence CCoE
- Help you to increase the value of your cloud
- Help you to correctly assign and attribute cloud costs
- Assist in cost optimisation and rate reduction exercises
- Enhance the Cloud FinOps maturity of the organisation
- Provide a defined route for improvements
- Knowledge transfer to existing or new Cloud FinOps practice
- Insight for due diligence mergers and acquisitions
Pricing
- Education pricing available
Service documents
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Framework
G-Cloud 15
Service ID
8 8 8 2 4 7 1 9 0 1 1 0 2 6 2
Contact
STRATEGIC BLUE SERVICES LIMITED
Freya Harland
Telephone: 0736 0498154
Email: support@strategic-blue.com
About your service
- Service categories
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Cloud Support Services
Cloud Financial Management Services
- FinOps Services
Service scope
- Service constraints
- None
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Yes
- Support response times
- General support tickets are answered within 48 hours, Monday to Friday.
- 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
- Yes
- Web chat support availability
- 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
- Web chat support accessibility standard
- WCAG 2.2 AA
- Web chat accessibility testing
- Webchat is provided via a Slack channel. https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/accessibility-plan
- Support levels
- Not applicable to consultancy services
- AI chatbot
- No
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Reseller providing extra support
- Organisation whose services are being resold
- AWS
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Other security clearance
- Government security clearance
- Security Clearance (SC)
Pricing
- Discount for educational organisations
- Yes
Architecture roles
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Associate business architect | £1,950.00 | |
| Business architect | £2,470.00 | |
| Lead business architect | £2,860.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Enterprise architect | £1,950.00 | |
| Senior enterprise architect | £2,470.00 | |
| Lead enterprise architect | £2,860.00 | |
| Principal enterprise architect | £3,770.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Security architect | £2,165.00 | |
| Lead security architect | £2,774.00 | |
| Principal security architect | £3,421.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Associate solution architect | £1,950.00 | |
| Solution architect | £2,470.00 | |
| Senior solution architect | £2,470.00 | |
| Lead solution architect | £2,860.00 | |
| Principal solution architect | £3,770.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Associate technical architect | £1,950.00 | |
| Technical architect | £2,470.00 | |
| Senior technical architect | £2,470.00 | |
| Lead technical architect | £2,860.00 | |
| Principal technical architect | £3,770.00 |
IT operations roles
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Associate infrastructure engineer | £1,567.00 | |
| Infrastructure engineer | £2,165.00 | |
| Senior infrastructure engineer | £2,774.00 | |
| Lead infrastructure engineer | £2,774.00 | |
| Principal infrastructure engineer | £3,421.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Associate infrastructure operations engineer | £1,567.00 | |
| Infrastructure operations engineer | £2,165.00 | |
| Senior infrastructure operations engineer | £2,774.00 | |
| Lead infrastructure operations engineer | £2,774.00 | |
| Principal infrastructure operations engineer | £3,421.00 |
Product and delivery roles
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Delivery manager | £2,165.00 | |
| Senior delivery manager | £2,774.00 | |
| Head of (Agile) delivery management | £3,421.00 |
Quality assurance testing (QAT) roles
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Test manager | £2,774.00 |
Non-mandatory Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
- British Assessment Bureau
- ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
- Monday 10 November 2025
- What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
- Nothing, our certification covers all parts of the business
- ISO 28000:2022 certification
- No
- ISO 9001 certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO 9001 certification
- British Assessment Bureau
- ISO 9001 accreditation date
- Monday 10 November 2025
- What the ISO 9001 doesn’t cover
- Nothing, our certification covers all parts of the business
- Quality management systems (QMS)
- Yes
- CSA STAR certification
- Yes
- CSA STAR accreditation date
- Tuesday 14 February 2023
- CSA STAR certification level
- Level 1: CSA STAR Self-Assessment
- What the CSA STAR doesn’t cover
- Nothing, our certification covers all parts of the business
- PCI certification
- No
- Cyber essentials
- Yes
- Please provide your Cyber Essentials Certificate Number
- Ecf82c78-5d5c-4909-a2dd-b36d85cda541
- Cyber essentials plus
- No
- Cyber Essentials Alternative
- None of the criteria
- 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
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Service documents
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