Structure Life Cycle Planning Tool
Structures Life Cycle Planning Tool is a web based decision support tool for Bridge Engineers and managers for Life Cycle planning, whole life costing, prioritisation and financial planning. Allows the decision maker to develop what-if scenarios to identify the appropriate level of funding for maintenance ensuring predefined performance targets.
Features
- User driven analysis for single/group/whole structures stock
- Develop What-if Scenarios based on Financial/Target Condition Constraints
- Comes with four pre-defined Maintenance Strategies
- Support for developing custom maintenance strategies
- Life cycle planning, Financial planning, Deterioration modelling
- Element/Component level analysis
Benefits
- Intuitive web based user interface is easy to learn
- Developed based on DfT Structure Asset Management Planning toolkit
- Supports multi span bridges
- 13 Standard reports and custom report builder
- Export to excel and share analysis
- Present multiple scenarios to stakeholders
Pricing
£2,500 an instance a year
- Free trial available
Service documents
Request an accessible format
Framework
G-Cloud 10
Service ID
5 2 1 6 1 2 3 8 2 0 6 8 6 9 0
Contact
FSW IT Solutions Limited
Jonathan Wheatley
Telephone: 020 3551 9320
Email: info@fswit.co.uk
Service scope
- Software add-on or extension
- Yes, but can also be used as a standalone service
- What software services is the service an extension to
- BridgeStation, Advanced Bridge Management System
- Cloud deployment model
- Private cloud
- Service constraints
- None
- System requirements
- None
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Email or online ticketing
- Support response times
- One Hour
- User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- Yes
- Online ticketing support accessibility
- None or don’t know
- 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
- Email support, phone support and support portal is included in the product price. On site support is available at additional costs. Details of the support is specified in service definition document.
- Support available to third parties
- Yes
Onboarding and offboarding
- Getting started
-
Assistance in importing their existing data.
Onsite Training.
Knowledge base and help guides. - Service documentation
- Yes
- Documentation formats
-
- HTML
- End-of-contract data extraction
- Exports to Microsoft Excel.
- End-of-contract process
- Exporting data to MS Excel format at no additional cost.
Using the service
- Web browser interface
- Yes
- Supported browsers
-
- Internet Explorer 7
- Internet Explorer 8
- Internet Explorer 9
- Internet Explorer 10
- Internet Explorer 11
- Microsoft Edge
- Firefox
- Chrome
- Safari 9+
- Opera
- Application to install
- No
- Designed for use on mobile devices
- Yes
- Differences between the mobile and desktop service
- Responsive Layout for desktop and mobile devices.
- Accessibility standards
- WCAG 2.0 AA or EN 301 549
- Accessibility testing
- None
- API
- Yes
- What users can and can't do using the API
- Standard APIs are available to connect/interact with Customer's legacy system ie outlook or GIS etc. These APIs are configured/issued/enabled after consultation with client's requirement at no additional costs. These APIs are not publicly available.
- API documentation
- No
- API sandbox or test environment
- No
- Customisation available
- Yes
- Description of customisation
-
The customisation can be done with instructions from buyers at additional costs. Example
1) Developing API to interact with any existing work system,(ie GIS Maps, Outlook, or other software) etc.
2) User Interface (i.e. custom user logo, background colours ),
3) Develop custom maintenance strategy etc.
Scaling
- Independence of resources
- Dedicated database and application instances,dynamic memory and bandwidth allocation based on demand and performance.
Analytics
- Service usage metrics
- No
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Not a reseller
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Other security clearance
- Government security clearance
- Up to Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS)
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
- Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 3.0)
- Penetration testing frequency
- At least once a year
- Penetration testing approach
- In-house
- Protecting data at rest
- Physical access control, complying with CSA CCM v3.0
- Data sanitisation process
- Yes
- Data sanitisation type
- Deleted data can’t be directly accessed
- Equipment disposal approach
- A third-party destruction service
Data importing and exporting
- Data export approach
- Exports option to MS Excel for data tables and PDF/GIF exports for chart images etc.
- Data export formats
- CSV
- Data import formats
- CSV
Data-in-transit protection
- Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
-
- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
- Legacy SSL and TLS (under version 1.2)
- Data protection within supplier network
- IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
Availability and resilience
- Guaranteed availability
- 99%
- Approach to resilience
- Available on Request
- Outage reporting
- Email Alerts
Identity and authentication
- User authentication needed
- Yes
- User authentication
- Username or password
- Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
- Each user is given a security profile with fixed expiry date for access. All access are logged.
- Access restriction testing frequency
- At least every 6 months
- Management access authentication
-
- Dedicated link (for example VPN)
- Username or password
Audit information for users
- Access to user activity audit information
- Users contact the support team to get audit information
- How long user audit data is stored for
- Between 1 month and 6 months
- Access to supplier activity audit information
- Users contact the support team to get audit information
- How long supplier audit data is stored for
- Between 1 month and 6 months
- How long system logs are stored for
- At least 12 months
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- No
- ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Other security certifications
- No
Security governance
- Named board-level person responsible for service security
- Yes
- Security governance certified
- No
- Security governance approach
- Internal process
- Information security policies and processes
- Internal Information Security Policy, explicitly outlined and agreed in Service Level Agreement with the buyer.
Operational security
- Configuration and change management standard
- Supplier-defined controls
- Configuration and change management approach
- Assertion that the goals are met
- Vulnerability management type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Vulnerability management approach
- Assertion that the goals are met
- Protective monitoring type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Protective monitoring approach
- Assertion that the goals are met
- Incident management type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Incident management approach
- Assertion that the goals are met
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
- £2,500 an instance a year
- Discount for educational organisations
- No
- Free trial available
- Yes
- Description of free trial
- Full access for limited period (one week)