UK_1552- Business Continuity Platform

The procurement of a Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) will enable a more integrated and automated approach to managing the Business Continuity Management program of the British Council, by supporting corporate services and countries with standardised templates of key documentation (Business Impact Assessment, Business Continuity Plans, Training, Exercising, Response Arrangements), and built-in guidance, as well as analysis of plans and dependencies.

The overall goal of this project is to provide a single system in which all BC governance, framework, incident report, exercises etc... will be featured and to clarifies roles and responsibilities within the BC program as well as increase staff's overall engagement in organisational resilience.

For this system to be successfully integrated within the British Council's operating environment, the SS&C team will need a single supplier to deliver the following requirements:

- Provide clear and easy to navigate business impact analysis, and business continuity plan templates (and accompanying guidance for staff who require additional support during yearly updates)

- Act as a repository for all governance documentation of the business continuity program

- Contain a training and exercising module, supporting the delivery of plan testing, and ensuring that identifies learning are allocated to relevant staff, actioned, and implemented.

- Support the SS&C team's incident management delivery and information dissemination when dealing with emergencies

- Support compliance and documentation return and concentrate all BC administrative tasks into one environment