Civica Digital Mail
Civica’s Digital Mail Service processes physical inbound and outbound mail that comes in and out of your organisation, helping to increase efficiency and reduce costs. Our mailroom services save you money, and reduce workload for your staff.
Features
- Receive it; your mail arrives with Civica in various formats
- Importing emails, document-type recognition, secure tracking
- Scanning
- Indexing
- Delivery
- Store or Destroy – All files can be stored securely
Benefits
- Civica’s outbound mail service saves up to 50% on costs
- Hybrid mail solution ensures staff focus on key business
- Productivity – simple and easy to use software solution
- Latest technology – option to custom develop the software
- Ongoing transparency – quarterly reviews continuous improvement
- Environmentally friendly as 100% of data will be recycled
Pricing
£0.04 to £1.66 a user a year
Service documents
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Framework
G-Cloud 10
Service ID
3 8 9 8 2 2 0 3 3 0 9 4 0 4 5
Contact
Civica UK Limited
Civica UK Limited
Telephone: +44 (0) 3333 214 914
Email: g-cloud@civica.co.uk
Service scope
- Software add-on or extension
- Yes
- What software services is the service an extension to
- But it can also be used as a standalone service
- Cloud deployment model
- Hybrid cloud
- Service constraints
- No constraints.
- System requirements
- N/A
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Email or online ticketing
- Support response times
-
Each call is allocated a priority as follows:
1. Business Critical impact
2. Major Operational impact
3. Minor Operational impact
4. Minor Operational inconvenience
5. System Operation not impeded - 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
- Onsite support
- Yes, at extra cost
- Support levels
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Civica will respond to application related incidents as below and will take all reasonable steps to achieve a resolution within target timescales. Civica will respond to incidents relating to availability of cloud services in an accelerated timeframe: Level 1 - 2 working hours - 1 working day. Level 2 - 2 working hours - 5 working days. Level 3 - 2 working hours - 30 working days. Level 4 - 2 working hours - 60 working days. Level 5 - TBA
Support Hours
Civica proactively monitors the infrastructure during the service hours, with our monitoring teams being automatically alerted to significant events. If a severity 1 Incident is observed by the team, i.e. a service-down failure, on-call engineers proactively work to resolve the problem promptly.
Reactive support is available from the Civica Service Desk via:
- Email – Support Requests/Incidents are logged 24x7x365 and actioned during support hours;
- Web portal – available 24x7x365 for logging and reviewing progress of Service Requests /Incidents. New requests are actioned during support hours;
- Telephone – the Desk can be contacted directly during Support Hours.
Support Hours are 09:00 to 17:00, Monday to Friday, excluding English public holidays - Support available to third parties
- No
Onboarding and offboarding
- Getting started
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Key stages in the on-boarding process comprise the following, managed under Civica’s Project Management Methodology which is based on PRINCE2.
• Customer completes scoping document detailing their requirements for the review
• Customer provides details of their Revs & Bens software
• Customer arranges access to their Revs & Bens system for the SPD Review Team
• Customer provides data files for loading
• Customer provided with signposting information for their staff regarding SPD Reviews
• Purchase Order raised based on estimated caseload and timescales finalised based on customer requirements
• Specification for any dedicated communication links agreed and plan provided
• Service commencement
• Regular monthly updates
Customers must provide 30 days’ written notice of termination, or otherwise in accordance with the Contract.
All data is held on and dealt with on the client system. Some anonymized data may be held by Civica and will be deleted at the end of the contract period. - Service documentation
- Yes
- Documentation formats
- End-of-contract data extraction
- We will facilitate the off-boarding process at the end of the contract. Data resides on customer systems for this service
- End-of-contract process
- At the end of the contract the client will either have the choice of extending the contract to the next G-Cloud framework version or converting to our standard rolling contract. Alternatively clients could do out to market and retender for the service.
Using the service
- Web browser interface
- Yes
- Supported browsers
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- Internet Explorer 10
- Internet Explorer 11
- Microsoft Edge
- Firefox
- Chrome
- Safari 9+
- Application to install
- No
- Designed for use on mobile devices
- No
- Accessibility standards
- None or don’t know
- Description of accessibility
- N/A
- Accessibility testing
- N/A
- API
- No
- Customisation available
- Yes
- Description of customisation
- The service can be customised to meet individual client requirements .
Scaling
- Independence of resources
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Underlying hardware is dynamically allocated and balanced using VMware Dynamic Resource Scheduler (DRS). DRS ensures virtual servers are allocated the appropriate physical hardware resources at all times. DRS also enables virtual servers to be migrated to different physical hardware so system availability is maintained during planned or unplanned maintenance.
Storage is allocated via a flash storage array capable of maintaining high IOPS throughput.
Analytics
- Service usage metrics
- No
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Not a reseller
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Other security clearance
- Government security clearance
- Up to Developed Vetting (DV)
Asset protection
- Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Data storage and processing locations
- United Kingdom
- User control over data storage and processing locations
- No
- Datacentre security standards
- Supplier-defined controls
- Penetration testing frequency
- At least once a year
- Penetration testing approach
- Another external penetration testing organisation
- Protecting data at rest
- Physical access control, complying with another standard
- Data sanitisation process
- Yes
- Data sanitisation type
- Deleted data can’t be directly accessed
- Equipment disposal approach
- Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v.30, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001
Data importing and exporting
- Data export approach
- N/A
- Data export formats
- Other
- Other data export formats
- N/A
- Data import formats
- Other
- Other data import formats
- N/A
Data-in-transit protection
- Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
- Other
- Other protection between networks
- N/A
- Data protection within supplier network
- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
Availability and resilience
- Guaranteed availability
- Civica’s standard core hours are 7am-7pm, Monday to Friday (excluding UK Bank holidays). Access to the service (remote access to data centre, domain names, network connections, IP addresses, hosted software and equipment) during core hours will have an uptime availability of 99.99%
- Approach to resilience
- Available on request.
- Outage reporting
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Infrastructure related scheduled maintenance will not occur between 07:00 and 19:00 Monday to Friday excluding English Bank Holidays. Maintenance will be arranged with a minimum of 3 working days’ notice, and will include a detailed description of the planned works, planned outcomes, and a detailed back-out plan, unless otherwise stated.
Unplanned outages will be notified via the Civica Service Desk.
Identity and authentication
- User authentication needed
- Yes
- User authentication
- Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
- Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
- Two factor authentication.
- Access restriction testing frequency
- At least once a year
- Management access authentication
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- 2-factor authentication
- Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
- Dedicated link (for example VPN)
Audit information for users
- Access to user activity audit information
- Users have access to real-time audit information
- How long user audit data is stored for
- User-defined
- Access to supplier activity audit information
- Users have access to real-time audit information
- How long supplier audit data is stored for
- User-defined
- How long system logs are stored for
- User-defined
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
- ISOQAR
- ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
- 06/12/2017
- What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
- NA
- ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Other security certifications
- Yes
- Any other security certifications
- Cyber Essentials Plus
Security governance
- Named board-level person responsible for service security
- Yes
- Security governance certified
- Yes
- Security governance standards
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- ISO/IEC 27001
- Other
- Other security governance standards
- Cyber Essentials Plus
- Information security policies and processes
- In order to provide a wide range of services to public and private sector organisations, Civica maintains an active information security programme. This programme requires regular internal and external audit inspection of both physical and logical data protection structures. The policies and procedures are aligned to ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus certifications.
Operational security
- Configuration and change management standard
- Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Configuration and change management approach
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All hosted assets metadata is stored in a Configuration Management Data Base. This data base is access controlled to authorised staff only. The CMDB provides information essential to the secure hosting of client critical services.
Civica's Change Management process ensures that all changes are considered and planned, and appropriate, and that there is a clear audit trail of all changes. - Vulnerability management type
- Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Vulnerability management approach
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Civica has vulnerability management processes in place for ISO27001 and PCI-DSS. These processes are externally audited on an annual basis to ensure continued compliance.
For external vulnerability scanning, Civica employs the services of an external ‘CHECK’ approved provider to perform an annual penetration test against the external management IP interface. Supporting this, Civica is also certified to the CESG approved Cyber Essentials scheme. For high value financial hosted system, Civica also maintains a PCI-DSS v3.1 certification. In scope systems are subject to month internal and external vulnerability scans as well as a full penetration test twice a year. - Protective monitoring type
- Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Protective monitoring approach
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Civica take a proactive approach to information security through a process of continual monitoring and review. As part of a documented risk assessment methodology to identify and manage information security risks a dedicated security team update the risk register monthly.
Civica has a network monitoring solution in place ‘OpsView’ as well as a full antivirus and anti-malware solution. These technologies check the hosted services for errors, infections and unexpected network traffic and are support by Cisco IPS/IDS at the perimeter layer. This monitoring service provides defence in depth, against compromise, by detecting infections and suspicious networking activity within the environment. - Incident management type
- Conforms to a recognised standard, for example, CSA CCM v3.0 or ISO/IEC 27035:2011 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Incident management approach
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Civica have developed an Incident Management process (PRM07) under ISO 20000 standards which details both the Incident and Service Request Management processes.
The Civica Service Desk manages end user Service Requests, Incidents and Requests for Change (RFCs) which can be logged by e-mail, telephone and web portal.
Monthly customer reports will detail incident information.
Secure development
- Approach to secure software development best practice
- Conforms to a recognised standard, but self-assessed
Public sector networks
- Connection to public sector networks
- No
Pricing
- Price
- £0.04 to £1.66 a user a year
- Discount for educational organisations
- No
- Free trial available
- No
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 g-cloud@civica.co.uk.
Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.