This G-Cloud 10 service is no longer available to buy.

The G-Cloud 10 framework expired on Tuesday 2 July 2019. Any existing contracts with Civica UK Limited are still valid.
Civica UK Limited

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
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
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
PDF
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
  • 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
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
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
  • 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
  • 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
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
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
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
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.