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Commercial Nexus

Infrastructure Assessments - Datacentre & Cloud

Datacentre and cloud infrastructure assessments for NHS organisations, evaluating on-premise estates, Cloud readiness, security, capacity, and cost efficiency. We deliver evidence-based recommendations, options appraisals, and migration roadmaps, enabling safe, strategic, and cost-effective modernisation of digital infrastructure.

Features

  • Comprehensive assessment of datacentre infrastructure covering compute, storage and networking.
  • Detailed cloud readiness review.
  • Evaluation of systems performance, capacity, utilisation, risks and technical constraints.
  • Cloud migration options appraisal including hybrid, on-premise, and full-cloud models.
  • Review of backup, recovery and continuity arrangements.
  • Cost analysis comparing on-premise, hybrid, and cloud hosting.
  • Architectural mapping identifying dependencies, legacy systems, and modernisation opportunities.
  • Stakeholder workshops gathering insights, operational requirements and strategic priorities.
  • High-level review of licensing and support contract dependencies.
  • Final report providing roadmap, recommendations, and executive summary.

Benefits

  • Enables informed infrastructure decisions through clear, evidence-based technical analysis.
  • Supports reduction in operational risk by identifying gaps and vulnerabilities.
  • Supports budget planning with transparent cost modelling and efficiency opportunities.
  • Accelerates cloud adoption through structured guidance and defined migration pathways.
  • Improves service reliability and performance across datacentres and cloud environments.
  • Increases infrastructure efficiency through optimisation insights and environment rationalisation.
  • Provides concise, actionable, strategic recommendations.
  • Enables confident modernisation planning supported through analysis and delivery guidance.

Pricing

Service documents

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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 yasin.virani@commercial-nexus.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.

Framework

G-Cloud 15

Service ID

9 6 6 6 8 6 4 8 7 0 3 3 2 7 9

Contact

Commercial Nexus Yasin Virani
Telephone: 07310 298 702
Email: yasin.virani@commercial-nexus.com

About the service

Service categories
  • Cloud Support Services
    • Cloud Migration Planning
      • Capability analysis
        • Capability analysis
      • Enterprise architecture
        • Enterprise architecture
      • Cloud gap assessment
        • Cloud gap assessment
      • Architecture options analysis
        • Architecture options analysis
      • Delivery Road-mapping
        • Delivery Road-mapping
      • Other
        • Other

Service scope

Service constraints
Delivery of the Infrastructure Assessment depends on the client providing timely access to systems, technical documentation, and relevant staff.
Outputs are based on information available during discovery and may be impacted by incomplete data or limited access.
On-site visits may be required depending on datacentre configuration.
Recommendations may depend on technical capabilities, existing licensing, and contractual constraints.
Timelines may be affected by organisational change, system instability, or delays in arranging stakeholder workshops or walkthroughs.
CNX does not provide custom software development, system reconfiguration, or vendor-specific remediation as part of this service.
Standard working hours (09:00–17:00, Mon–Fri).

User support

Email or online ticketing support
Yes
Support response times
Non-Operational email support for clarification queries with a typical response target of 2 working days.
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
Overview: This service is delivered on a project-based, operational basis and does not include formal support levels. Support is limited to clarification and delivery-related queries during the agreed engagement period. There is no ongoing technical support, managed service, or service-level agreement (SLA) associated with this service.

Supplier type

Supplier type
Not a reseller

Staff security

Staff security clearance
Other security clearance
Government security clearance
Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS)

Pricing

Discount for educational organisations
No

Government Digital and Data Roles

Architecture roles

Data architect
Role level UK Rate Offshore Rate
Data architect £1,050.00
Solution architect
Role level UK Rate Offshore Rate
Solution architect £1,250.00
Technical architect
Role level UK Rate Offshore Rate
Technical architect £1,250.00

Data roles

Data engineer
Role level UK Rate Offshore Rate
Data engineer £1,050.00

IT operations roles

Business relationship manager
Role level UK Rate Offshore Rate
Business relationship manager £1,050.00

Product and delivery roles

Business analyst
Role level UK Rate Offshore Rate
Business analyst £900.00

Standards and certifications

ISO/IEC 27001 certification
No
ISO 28000:2022 certification
No
ISO 9001 certification
No
Quality management systems (QMS)
No
CSA STAR certification
No
PCI certification
No
Cyber essentials
Yes
Cyber Essentials Certificate Number
3282486c-b66e-43c9-848c-c2da2fb378e3
Cyber essentials plus
No
Cyber Essentials Alternative
None of the criteria
Other security certifications
No

Social value

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
  • Providing opportunities for, and measuring and monitoring of, staff workforce conditions over time, including employee engagement, involvement in decision-making and satisfaction and adapting to any changes in the results, with clear processes for acting on issues identified
  • Plans to engage the contract workforce in deciding the most important workplace issues to address

Policy Outcome 2: Skills for growth: Supporting growth sectors and addressing skills gaps.

  • Understanding of employment and relevant skills issues, and of the education and training issues relating to the contract. Illustrative examples: demographics, skills shortages, new opportunities in high growth sectors, geographic/local community and skills/employment challenges
Mission: Build an NHS fit for the future

That is there when people need it; with fewer lives lost to the biggest killers; in a fairer Britain, where everyone lives well for longer.

Policy Outcome 8: Increasing productivity through physical and mental wellbeing: In the supply chain and communities in the relevant area.

  • Understanding of issues relating to health and wellbeing, including physical and mental health, in the contract workforce

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 yasin.virani@commercial-nexus.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.