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NquiringMinds Ltd
NQM Population and Infrastructure Modelling Suite
The NQM Population and Infrastructure Modelling Suite comprised four separate but complementary modules:
• Population Scenario Modelling
• Revenue and Accounts Analytics
• School Pressure Analytics
• GP Pressure Analytics
The tools help local authorities plan for the future, anticipate costs and right size infrastructure investments.
Features
- Import and configure and view national level demographic models
- Rapidly construct and compare different population scenario
- Assess the impact or new housing build
- Better plan Local authority budgets across all revenue lines
- Assess demographic impact on schools and school places
- Assess demographic impact on health care provision (GPs)
- Create add-in modules for new infrastructure analysis
- Easy to use based interface
- Super scalable: modelling billions of records in hours.
Benefits
- Consolidate your demographic modelling tools across the organisation
- Run and compare different new-build housing scenario
- Calculate infrastructure investments needed to support demographic changes
- Better more consistent budget planning tools across the local authority
- Better utilisation of investment budgets
Pricing
£0.015 to £0.03 per person per year
- Education pricing available
- Free trial available
Service documents
Framework
G-Cloud 9
Service ID
654447358795620
Contact
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 |
All NQM applications are based on the NQM TDX (Trusted Data Exchange). All applications come with the requisite licenses and technical modules and integration, to ensure the application works at the appropriate scaling level |
| Cloud deployment model | Hybrid cloud |
| Service constraints | None |
| System requirements | Minimum browser level required for full UI |
User support
| Email or online ticketing support | Email or online ticketing |
| Support response times | 4 hours |
| 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 | Web chat |
| Web chat support availability | 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday |
| Web chat support accessibility standard | None or don’t know |
| How the web chat support is accessible | Web link |
| Web chat accessibility testing | None |
| Onsite support | Yes, at extra cost |
| Support levels | SFIA rate card costs |
| Support available to third parties | Yes |
Onboarding and offboarding
| Getting started |
Users can self-provision through the website. Normal onboarding will entail workshop and training (2 day) with access to web-based documentation |
| Service documentation | Yes |
| Documentation formats | HTML |
| End-of-contract data extraction |
Our core platform supports several models fo data extraction * Download as CSV * Complete database replication * Custom export process through open API |
| End-of-contract process | At end of contract user will be notified to extract key data (30 day notice) then the machines(s) will be wiped and decommissioned. |
Using the service
| Web browser interface | Yes |
| Supported browsers |
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| Application to install | No |
| Designed for use on mobile devices | Yes |
| Differences between the mobile and desktop service | Mobile site is optimised for use on small screens |
| Accessibility standards | None or don’t know |
| Description of accessibility | NA |
| Accessibility testing | None |
| API | Yes |
| What users can and can't do using the API | Fully documented REST API avialable on website |
| API documentation | Yes |
| API documentation formats | HTML |
| API sandbox or test environment | Yes |
| Customisation available | Yes |
| Description of customisation |
Licensed third party users can extend the solution in many ways - new data sources - new data visualisation - new data analytics components - integrated with 3rd party enterprise systems and website - integrate with mobile applications |
Scaling
| Independence of resources | Real-time monitoring and dynamic machine provisioning |
Analytics
| Service usage metrics | Yes |
| Metrics types |
Uptime Transactions Network traffic Disk usage CPU load |
| Reporting types |
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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 |
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| User control over data storage and processing locations | Yes |
| Datacentre security standards | Managed by a third party |
| Penetration testing frequency | At least once a year |
| Penetration testing approach | Another external penetration testing organisation |
| Protecting data at rest |
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| Data sanitisation process | Yes |
| Data sanitisation type | Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation |
| Equipment disposal approach | In-house destruction process |
Data importing and exporting
| Data export approach |
We support standard methods via - CSV - JSON - XML Customer exporters can be written |
| Data export formats |
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| Other data export formats | JSON |
| Data import formats |
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| Other data import formats | JSON |
Data-in-transit protection
| Data protection between buyer and supplier networks |
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| Data protection within supplier network | TLS (version 1.2 or above) |
Availability and resilience
| Guaranteed availability | 99.5, assured by contractual commitment |
| Approach to resilience | Available on request |
| Outage reporting |
Dashboard API Email and SMS alerts |
Identity and authentication
| User authentication needed | Yes |
| User authentication |
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| Other user authentication | We support a plugin architecture for authentication that can be adapted to multiple scenarios |
| Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels | Core TDX platform supports multiple tiers of access restriction from access control list to certificate assertions. These are documented in our security whitepaper |
| Access restriction testing frequency | At least every 6 months |
| Management access authentication |
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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 | No |
| ISO 28000:2007 certification | No |
| CSA STAR certification | No |
| PCI certification | No |
| Other security accreditations | No |
Security governance
| Named board-level person responsible for service security | Yes |
| Security governance accreditation | No |
| Security governance approach | Assured by independent validation of assertion |
| Information security policies and processes | Internal policy |
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 | Yes, assured by independent validation of assertion |
| Vulnerability management type | Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402 |
| Vulnerability management approach | Yes, assured by independent validation of assertion |
| Protective monitoring type | Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402 |
| Protective monitoring approach | Yes, assured by independent validation of assertion |
| 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 | Yes, assured by independent validation of assertion |
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 | £0.015 to £0.03 per person per year |
| Discount for educational organisations | Yes |
| Free trial available | Yes |
| Description of free trial | Limited 1-month trial of basic services |
Documents
| Pricing document | View uploaded document |
| Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card | View uploaded document |
| Service definition document | View uploaded document |
| Terms and conditions document | View uploaded document |