Mindful Contract Solutions Limited
Virtual Commercial Management services & Discrete commercial work packages
You will have access to a Commercial consultant at a fraction of an FTE cost. Whether you need a sounding board, deep-dive expertise or full-fledged management, we have options on a retainer basis to cover your needs. Additionally, discrete support available for commercial case drafting, sourcing, negotiations & dispute.
Features
- Contract & commercial management
- Commercial advice for Cloud transformation programmes
- ERP commercial negotiations: Oracle Cloud, SAP, Workday
- Help choosing vendors
- Sourcing and procurement strategy and implementation
- Evaluation of CCS Frameworks available
- Supplier relationship management
- Sourcing panel attendance, negotiations and dispute management on discrete basis
- Commercial case drafting and review on discrete basis
Benefits
- Experienced GCloud supplier: Delivered £10m+ of services to Government
- Refreshing risk-adjusted alternative model to individual contractor hiring.
- IACCM, MCIPS & MCIArb certified & SC cleared consultants
- Network of associates include ex-management consultants at realistic day rates
- Costs fraction of a fully loaded FTE
- Smooth CCS/Cabinet Office approval of new provision
- Managed exit out of existing contracts
- Fully transparent price breakdown
- Properly insured for the consultancy trade
- VAT potentially recoverable under Contracted Out Service heading 55
Pricing
£600 to £7,500 a unit
Service documents
- Pricing document (pdf)
- Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card (pdf)
- Service definition document (pdf)
- Terms and conditions (pdf)
Framework
G-Cloud 12
Service ID
9 8 7 5 4 6 2 3 6 0 2 7 6 4 1
Contact
Planning
- Planning service
- Yes
- How the planning service works
-
We have led and assisted in drafting commercial and economic cases for cloud implementation, on the five case (5 case) model.
We can lead or assist in establishing your sourcing / procurement strategy and plan.
We can lead or assist in supplier selection through use of Government frameworks (such as GCloud, DOS, etc.) and in contract drafting. - Planning service works with specific services
- No
Training
- Training service provided
- Yes
- How the training service works
- We provide bespoke training through an instructor-led delivery model.
- Training is tied to specific services
- No
Setup and migration
- Setup or migration service available
- Yes
- How the setup or migration service works
-
We undertake a contracts and commercial review to discover any foreseeable risks and propose and implement a mitigation strategy.
Where customers wish to exit an ongoing implementation contract in order to make a move to cloud services, we assist in identifying the most effective exit route and in the re-procurement of terminated services to introduce cloud suppliers. - Setup or migration service is for specific cloud services
- No
Quality assurance and performance testing
- Quality assurance and performance testing service
- No
Security testing
- Security services
- Yes
- Security services type
-
- Security strategy
- Cyber security consultancy
Ongoing support
- Ongoing support service
- Yes
- Types of service supported
-
- Buyer hosting or software
- Hosting or software provided by a third-party organisation
- How the support service works
- We work closely with your service management function, providing them with a commercial and contract touch point, and give proactive and reactive advice on supplier or contract issues that emerge or could emerge.
Service scope
- Service constraints
- Not known
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Email or online ticketing
- Support response times
- Within one business day.
- 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
- Support levels
- We endeavour to respond to issues and enquiries within one business day, with due regard to the urgency and importance of the underlying matter to the Buyer.
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Not a reseller
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Other security clearance
- Government security clearance
- Up to Security Clearance (SC)
Pricing
- Price
- £600 to £7,500 a unit
- Discount for educational organisations
- No
Service documents
- Pricing document (pdf)
- Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card (pdf)
- Service definition document (pdf)
- Terms and conditions (pdf)