CTO Technologies Ltd

Technical Procurement Services

We deliver technical consultancy services to support the NHS, schools and the public sector when procuring new systems, solutions and architecture. We provide technical leadership to create specifications, finance models and high/low level designs, managed by a technical project manager. We pride ourselves being vendor neutral, putting clients’ needs first.

Features

  • Lead the development of technical output-based specifications
  • Quality Assurance of recommended third party designs and solutions
  • Responsible for all technical requests for Information and clarification questions
  • Provide contract, product, vendor and supplier exit, transition, testing services
  • Lead technical and commercial dialogue, negotiation sessions
  • Support evaluation and award criteria development for technical work stream
  • Undertake detailed as-is to determine best fit solution
  • Technical input for route to market assessments
  • Post award review and supplier management, including SLA/KPI
  • Key areas: EPR, PACS/RIS, EDM, N3/CoIN, HSCN, LAN, server, licensing

Benefits

  • Independent and vendor agnostic
  • Single point of contact for technical
  • Clear process for requirements specification and prioritisation
  • Specialist technical input into evaluation
  • Extensive preferred supplier technical negotiation support
  • Thorough knowledge of key NHS standards such as IG Toolkit
  • Enterprise focus that maximises benefits
  • Align deliverables to current and future strategies
  • Extensive knowledge across a wide range of technical architecture
  • Over 20 years’ experience working with NHS IT infrastructure platforms

Pricing

£350.00 a person a day

  • Education pricing available

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 mark.bishop@ctotechnologies.co.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.

Framework

G-Cloud 12

Service ID

2 1 7 1 9 5 0 1 2 1 3 8 2 8 0

Contact

CTO Technologies Ltd Mark Bishop
Telephone: 0845 644 3830
Email: mark.bishop@ctotechnologies.co.uk

Planning

Planning service
Yes
How the planning service works
CTO Tech delivers a range of consultancy services that can support the process of implementing cloud hosting or its associated software and management services. Our services include; technical architecture, enterprise architecture, specification & procurement expertise, deployment services, solution design, integration support services, resolution, problem and service management and quality assurance. We are also experts in the development of technical strategies & specifications, business cases and the gathering of requirements to enable organisations to move onto new cloud platforms. These services can be provided as specific deliverables, or a team approach that can be used to support the organisation throughout the process.
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
CTO Tech delivers a range of consultancy services that can support the process of migrating services should organisations require the need to set up or move between cloud hosting or cloud software services. Our services include technical architecture, enterprise architecture, specification & procurement expertise, deployment services, solution design, integration support services, resolution, problem & service management and quality assurance. We are also experts in the development of technical strategies & specifications, business cases and the gathering of requirements to enable organisations to move onto new cloud platforms. These services can be provided as specific deliverables, or a team approach that can be used to support the organisation throughout the process.
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
Programme Assurance and Quality Assurance Services play a key role in the successful delivery of services. We regularly performance test our services and invite our clients to regular reviews where we benchmark the services being delivered against predetermined KPIs. When organisations are seeking assurance on their large-scale cloud deployments, CTO Tech can offer experienced consultants from a wide range of skills sets: technical architecture, enterprise architecture, problem management, service management.

CTO Tech has extensive knowledge of implementing large programmes and transformations gathering from many years of lessons learned and best practices which can be utilised to provide assurance to our clients.

Security testing

Security services
Yes
Security services type
Cyber security consultancy

Ongoing support

Ongoing support service
No

Service scope

Service constraints
Not available weekends

User support

Email or online ticketing support
Yes, at extra cost
Support response times
Response within 1 hour and resolved within 24 hours; Monday - Friday
User can manage status and priority of support tickets
No
Phone support
Yes
Phone support availability
24 hours, 7 days a week
Web chat support
No
Support levels
Support is available via Phone or email Monday to Friday, 9 to 5PM

Resellers

Supplier type
Not a reseller

Staff security

Staff security clearance
Staff screening not performed
Government security clearance
Up to Developed Vetting (DV)

Pricing

Price
£350.00 a person a day
Discount for educational organisations
Yes

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 mark.bishop@ctotechnologies.co.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.