Vodafone secure mail services Overview The G-Cloud Mail service is a business-class email system based on Microsoft Exchange. It provides a secure and robust email service, and includes an inbox, calendar, contacts, tasks and folders. The service includes: a secure government accredited environment at IL2 and IL3 a simple way to manage users and mailboxes G-Cloud Mail helps you work more effectively across your organisation, for example through calendar look-up and shared mailboxes Information assurance The G-Cloud Mail service can support both IL2 and IL3 data, and the two are kept on separate platforms. Backup/restore and disaster recovery We store all data in two different Tier 3 locations in the UK, so if there was a disaster at one location, the other location can continue the service. Even the individual data centres themselves have resilience. For example, if one server fails there s another at the same site to take over the job before disaster recovery processes kick in. All data is securely backed up and secured off site. On-boarding and off-boarding On-boarding We ll work with you to agree and define your need for managed migration from any existing email systems, which we ll then include in a quote based on your requirements. If you would like to handle the migration yourself, we can give you help and advice.
Off-boarding If you want to end any of your Mail services during or at the end of your contract, please speak to your account team representative. We ll then work with you to assess, plan, schedule and make the change. If you do end the service before your contract is up, you will be required to pay any applicable termination charges. Please see our terms. Service management Change management We know that you might want to evolve your G-Cloud Mail service as your organisation changes. If you d like to make a change, just send a request for change form to our service desk. We have a robust change and service request management process to help us give you a cost-effective, constant and smooth service. This helps us assess, control and deliver any changes. It also includes release and configuration management processes. We ll use our change management procedures to handle all change requests. This process includes: raising and recording changes assessing the impact, cost/benefit and risk business justification and approval managing and coordinating implementation reporting and monitoring implementation reviewing requests assessing and approving change requests All our change process are compliant with ISO 9001:2008. Service constraints Maintenance and planned works We define planned works as any routine maintenance or preventative actions we need to do to help our Mail service run smoothly. We ll give you at least 10 working days notice of any planned works that could affect you. You can t refuse planned works that we need to do for the integrity, supportability, security, performance or availability of any infrastructure available to or used by you or any other customer.
Service levels Support services The G-Cloud Mail service operates to an availability service level agreement of 99.9%. Severity level definitions Severity level Description Typical examples 1 Loss of service Website down 2 Degradation of service Intermittent fault, pushing performance below service levels 3 Risk to service Loss of resilience, loss of second site 4 Not affecting service Failed power supply or disk usage at 90%, needing investigation and advice Service restoration The time it takes to restore a fault is based on the severity level of the fault, time to restore is the time from you letting us know about the problem to the problem being fixed. Our target restore times are: Severity level Target time to restore 1 4 hours 2 4 hours 3 48 hours 4 n/a Ordering and invoicing If you make an order or ask for a quote, you ll get a reference number you can use to track your request. Orders that you place will be subject to our terms. You ll get regular updates on quotes and orders from our sales support desk. These might include details from technical, design, commercial, survey or feasibility teams. We ll invoice you: in advance for all set up fees
monthly in arrears for all recurring charges and usage charges all your charges will be itemised on your bill the month after the month in which a change you ve asked for has been done or you start using a service for any other requests Ending the service Either of us can terminate the contract for: insolvency material breach revocation, change to or non-replacement of telecommunications authorisations or licences fraud convenience on 3 months notice, that notice won t expire until the end of the initial period or renewal period (as applicable) force majeure We can terminate the contract: for non-payment for IPR infringement according to law, regulation, etc to prevent interference with, damage to, or degradation of the Vodafone network to eliminate a hazardous condition if you misuse the service You can end the contract at any time by giving us 90 days notice, as long as you pay any early termination charges as set out in our terms. Data restoration We can restore data up to 90 days after you ve deleted it from your deleted items folder. Your responsibilities You re responsible for: giving us contact details of a technical person or team who we can speak to about design and onboarding activities giving us the IP addresses from your wide area network (WAN)
getting a suitably authorised person to agree the standard terms and conditions and sign the initial order form giving us adequate information and contact details of someone we can liaise with on any incident/fault resolution providing all application licences for any applications you install (and giving us proof if we ask) working within with our acceptable use policy signing off the solutions design document We ask you to sign the customer acceptance form to confirm that you accept the service and that you send it back within 14 days of receiving it. Trialling Mail Please ask if you d like a trial of the Mail service, though trials might have limited functionality because of security and operational factors. We can also give you client references. Need more information? For more information, please talk to your sales representative or your account manager or you can email the team on psn@vodafone.com