G-Cloud 5 Service Definition Lot 4 Specialist Cloud Services Datacentre Architecture Design and Deployment April 2014 Telephone: 01352 700 103 Email: contact@solvings.com Address: Solvings Mold Business Park Wrexham Road Mold Flintshire
About Solvings Solvings is an independent UK company specialising in providing IT Infrastructure Services, Support and Project Consultancy, throughout all sectors of industry, but with special expertise within the Defence and Government sector. Our approach in supporting you, your projects and needs is simple we are flexible, professional and we get the job done - we ensure that we have targets that we can all aim for and exceed. We have on-going governance and reviews, and above all we deliver. Our Service delivery team ensures that we understand your requirement and strives to bring together our specialist knowledge and considerable expertise to work in partnership with your organisations to ensure seamless end to end delivery. Our Technical staff and Project Managers are people that have worked with us over the years and have experience in infrastructure delivery and large scale project delivery. We aim to ensure all Solvings resources are: Fully project briefed and trained for your specific requirement. Quality engineers are the order of the day Able to seek advice from our own Solvings Subject Matter Experts and technical experts in the field from our partner companies Managed by good all-round knowledgeable programme managers and administrators that can deliver all types of technical projects, which themselves have an agreed upon governance and review system overseen by our project support office Experienced and trusted to liaise with your company and project partners to take that layer of responsibility away from you. We have highly capable Project Managers that will ensure your project runs smoothly all our project managers are supported by our PSO Project Support Office, which is overseen by Prince2 and MSP Programme Managers to provide the leadership and direction. We are great believers in accountability and governance being essential to a well-run project Our services include: Business Requirements Development & Capture Business Case Development Enterprise Architecture ICT Strategy and Architecture Development Procurement Support and Options Analysis Supplier Evaluation and Assessment Solution and Service Architecture Development Supplier Governance and Assurance Programme and Project Management Technical Assurance and Delivery Migration and Testing Services
Service Definition We provide the following service under LOT4 Specialist Cloud Services: Business Requirements Development & Capture Business Case Development Enterprise Architecture ICT Strategy and Architecture Development Procurement Support and Options Analysis Supplier Evaluation and Assessment Solution and Service Architecture Development Supplier Governance and Assurance Programme and Project Management Technical Assurance and Delivery Migration and Testing Services We are able to support all areas of LOT 4 Specialist Cloud Services covering the SFIA components of Strategy and Architecture, Business Change, Solution Development and Implementation, Service Management, Procurement and Management Support and Client Interface. Contact Details For more detailed information on the service capability please contact: Solvings Mold Business Park Wrexham Road Mold Flintshire CH7 1XP Telephone: 01352 700 103 Email: contact@solvings.com
Delivering the Service Our pricing is based on the SFIA matrix below. Our approach is working with client to define the requirements and jointly agree the right approach for the service engagement Time and Material Day Rate per resource against the SFIA matrix Fixed Price Work Package based on outcome based deliverables Hybrid approach based on individual requirements We able to offer discounts based on long term engagements and for the educational sector The day rates for the our services are based upon the SFIA framework and can be found below Our service will be delivered from a mixed delivery model custom to the service outcomes and deliverables either on site at a client or from Solvings locations across the UK Solvings Standard Rate Card Strategy & architecture Business change Solution development & implementation Service management Procurement & management support Client interface 1. Follow 250 225 225 225 225 200 2. Assist 350 400 300 300 300 225 3. Apply 500 350 395 395 395 350 4. Enable 575 525 500 500 500 525 5. Ensure/Advise 650 625 625 650 625 625 6. Initiate/Influence 875 825 700 700 775 725 7. Set Strategy/Inspire 995 995 875 875 900 800 Standards for Consultancy Day Rate cards Consultant s Working Day 8 hours exclusive of travel and lunch. Working Week Monday to Friday excluding national holidays Office Hours - 09:00 17:00 Monday to Friday Travel and Subsistence Excluded Mileage As above Professional Indemnity Insurance included in day rate.
Technology, Capability and Skills We have a large team of resources with the key skills needed for this complex, rapid project delivery. They include specialties in enterprise government and commercial networks, routing and switching, network security, data centre networks, network and security virtualisation, cloud networks, managed services, SOA, SECaaS, SaaS, IaaS, VPN overlay, intrusion prevention/detection, firewalls, network admission control, remote access, secure VoIP networks, DDoS mitigation, connectivity, authentication solutions, web and content security, secure hosting, security management and monitoring, security posture assessments, network and security audits, PCI DSS, compliance, hands-on implementation, integration and troubleshooting. Technologies include: Routers/Switches - Cisco ASR 1K Routers (RP2), Cisco 800-7600 Series Routers, ISR G1/G2, Cisco 2960 6500 Sup32/720 Series Switches, IOS, IOS-XE, NX-OS, IOS Security, Basic Juniper Junos. Routing/Switching - BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, RIP, VRF, STP, VSS, complex layer 3 / layer 2 design and configurations. Data Centre Nexus 7K, 5K, 4K, 2K, 1000v, VPC, VDC, FEX, basic support knowledge for VMWare vsphere 4 5. VPN - DMVPN, GET VPN, GRE/IPSec, VTI, L2TP, traditional IPSec, SSL VPN, Cisco VPN 3000 Concentrators Delivery over MPLS, VPLS, IP Clear/Connect, Internet, ISDN, VSAT and wireless using PKI X509 authentication, CAPS Crypto appliances (BeMac X-Kryptor/Crypto AG). Official Cisco beta tester for early WebVPN. Firewalls Cisco ASA, FWSM, PIX, IOS, WAF, Juniper Netscreen SSG Series Firewalls, Check Point Firewall 4.1 - R7x, Nokia, Intel SPLAT and UTM-1 platforms. IDS/IPS Cisco 4200 series sensors, Cisco IDSM2, Cisco ASA AIP, Cisco IOS IPS, Cisco Security Agent. NAC/AAA Cisco Access Control Server 3, 4 and 5, Cisco Network Admission Control (CAS, CAM, Framework, 802.1X), RSA SecurID and Swivel Secure PINsafe. Content Cisco ACE, Cisco Global Site Selector, Cisco CSC, Bluecoat SG/AV, Webscreen DDoS appliance. Monitoring SNMP, Cisco MARS, Solarwinds Orion suite, Cisco Security Manager, Cisco Works, MRTG, PRTG. Audit BackTrack, Nessus, Nmap and associated interpretation, reporting and mitigation of network vulnerabilities. Professional qualifications CCIE Security Cisco Unified Fabric Technology Design Specialist, Cisco Data Centre Unified Fabric Design Specialist, Cisco Data Centre Networking Infrastructure Design Specialist Cisco Unified Technology Support Specialist, Cisco Data Centre Unified Fabric Support Specialist CCDP - (Designing Cisco Network Service Architectures) CCSP - (Cisco SAFE Implementation, Cisco Secure IDS, Securing Cisco IOS Networks, Cisco Secure VPN, Cisco Secure PIX Firewall Advanced), CNSS INFOSEC
CCNP - (Cisco Internetwork Troubleshooting, Building Cisco Remote Access Networks, Building Cisco Scalable Internetworks, Building Cisco Multilayer Switched Networks) CCDA - (Designing Cisco Networks) CCNA - (Interconnecting Network Devices) Cisco Security Solutions for Systems Engineers / Cisco Trusted Technical Advisor (Security - Partner Virtual Team) Cisco Securing Networks using Intrusion Prevention Systems Juniper JNCIA Junos CompTIA Security+