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Product Specific Terms - MSP - Workspace Managed Disaster Recovery Tenant Support

1. Supplier Obligations

The Supplier shall:

1.1.1 Reactive Support

1.1.2 respond to Workspace Incidents and / or Workspace Service Requests raised by a Customer Named Contact;

1.1.3 reclassify the priority of a Workspace Incident and / or Workspace Service Request raised by the Customer where incorrectly prioritised by the Customer;

1.1.4 track and report Workspace Incidents and / or Workspace Service Requests raised by the Customer in the Supplier Support Portal;

1.1.5 diagnose and guide the Customer through the Workspace Incidents and / or Workspace Service Requests. The Supplier will not resolve the Workspace Incidents and / or Workspace Service Requests for the Customer as part of this service. This service is limited to diagnosis and guidance to enable the Customer to resolve;

1.1.6 reserve the right to reject a Workspace Incident and / or Workspace Service Request or levy additional Charges where any of the following apply: (i) undue risk would be caused to the Customer’s Workspace Environment; (ii) additional expertise beyond the scope of Workspace Support is required; and / or (iii) 1 Business Day or more effort or resources from the Supplier is required, in which case the Supplier will initiate the Workspace Incident and / or Workspace Service Request be managed under a separate Professional Services contract;

1.2 Customer Success Manager

1.2.1 provide the Customer with access to a Customer Success Manager;

1.3 Google Escalation

1.3.1 When the Supplier escalates an Incident to Google TSS on behalf of the Customer, the Google TSS Guidelines and the Google SLA shall apply, the Supplier shall:

1.3.2 classify the priority of an Incident based on Google categorisation at the point of escalation to Google TSS;

1.3.3 work with Google TSS to identify the cause(s) of an Incident and progress Incident through to Incident resolution;

1.3.4 gather information from the Customer required by Google TSS and transfer the information back to Google TSS;

1.3.5 provide Google TSS final outcome to the Customer;

2. Customer Obligations

The Customer shall:

2.1.1 register Customer Named Contacts in the Supplier Support Portal;

2.1.2 report all Workspace Incidents and / or Workspace Service Requests via the Available Support Channels set out in the SLA;

2.1.3 cooperate with the Supplier as required to enable the Supplier to perform its obligations;

2.1.4 remedy issues in services delivered by the Customer’s third-party suppliers that affects Workspace covered by this Workspace Support;

2.1.5 be solely liable for implementation decisions and system changes made by the Customer;

2.1.6 provide the Supplier with all information and evidence required by Google TSS where there is a claim for Google service credit (in accordance with the Google SLA), in order for the Supplier to make a claim for service credit to Google for and on behalf of the Customer;

3. General

3.1 Unless otherwise set out in the relevant Order Form, the Supplier shall invoice the Customer annually in advance.

3.2 The Supplier may increase the Charges annually. This increase will be based on the preceding month's announced inflation rate (either ONS CPI or ECB HICP, as applicable), plus an additional 5%. If the applicable inflation rate is negative, only the 5% additional charge will apply.

3.3 The relevant Order Form shall auto-renew at the end of the relevant Term, for 12 month periods (“Renewal Term”) at the Supplier’s then current pricing unless either party gives at least 30 days prior written notice of non-renewal.

4. Definitions

4.1 The following definitions apply in these Product Specific Terms:

Customer’s Domain

means as defined in the relevant Ordering Document.

Customer Named Contact

means a Customer appointed individual authorised to raise Incidents and / or Service Requests with Supplier Support.

Customer Success Manager (“CSM”)

means a Supplier subject matter expert available during Business Hours. The Supplier individual assigned to the Customer may be replaced with an alternative Supplier individual of equivalent level and skill at any time and at the Supplier’s sole discretion.

Customer’s Workspace Environment

means the Customer’s Domain which utilises Google Workspace for disaster recovery purposes.

Supplier Support

means the service desk that acts as a single point of contact for all Customer Service Requests and / or Incidents.

Google Technical Support Service (“Google TSS”)

means the then-current Google technical support service for Customers use of Workspace provided by Google to Customer via communications through the Supplier.

Google TSS Guidelines

means Google's technical support services guidelines then in effect. TSS Guidelines are available at: https://workspace.google.com/terms/tssg.html

Google SLA

means the Google service level agreement then in effect for Google TSS and available at: https://workspace.google.com/terms/sla.html

Google Workspace

means a software as a service product owned by Google that groups all the cloud-based productivity and collaboration tools developed by Google for businesses and more particularly described at https://workspace.google.com/terms/user_features.html, as amended from time to time.

Incident

means an unplanned interruption or reduction to the Customer’s Workspace Environment.

Service Level Agreement or SLA

means:

P1

Production Outage

Availability: Business Hours

Available Support Channels: Support Portal or Email

P2

Severe Production System Issues

Availability: Business Hours

Available Support Channels: Support Portal or Email

P3

Minor Issues in production / non-production

Availability: Business Hours

Available Support Channels: Support Portal or Email

P4

Change Request, Service Requests and questions

Availability: Business Hours

Available Support Channels: Support Portal or Email

Available Support Channels

Service Request

Means a request for information, advice, reporting or for a pre-approved Customer change or access to the Customer’s Workspace Environment.

Service Request: means a request for information, advice, reporting or for a pre-approved Customer change or access to the Customer’s Workspace Environment.