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Product Specific Terms – MSP - Workspace Managed Service

1.

Supplier Obligations

Supplier shall:

1.1.

Reactive Support

1.1.1.

respond to Workspace Incidents and / or Workspace Service Requests raised by a Customer Named Contact in accordance with the Service Level Agreement;

1.1.2.

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

1.1.3.

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

1.1.4.

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;

1.1.5.

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 Managed 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.

Success Plan

1.2.1.

collaborate with the Customer to create a success plan that sets out how the Supplier and the Customer will work together during the Term;

1.3.

Monthly Operational Reviews

1.3.1.

meet with the Customer, if requested, once a month for the Term to review the delivery of Workspace Managed Support in order to improve service quality and identify more efficient ways of utilising Workspace (“Operational Review”);

1.4.

Support Specialist

1.4.1.

provide the Customer with access to a Support Specialist, as required;

1.5.

Customer Success Manager

1.5.1.

provide the Customer with a Customer Success Manager;

1.6.

Quarterly Business Reviews

1.6.1.

arrange Quarterly Business Reviews with the Customer;

1.7.

Roadmap Calls

1.7.1.

arrange Bespoke Workspace Roadmap Calls with the Customer;

1.8.

Google Escalation

1.8.1.

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

1.8.2.

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

1.8.3.

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

1.8.4.

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

1.8.5.

provide Google TSS final outcome to the Customer.

2.

Customer Obligations

2.1.

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; and

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 Managed Support;

2.1.5.

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

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 (Consumer Price Index) for contracts with Qodea Limited/Qodea Technology Limited, or ECB HICP (Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices) for contracts with Cloud Technology Solutions Nederlands B.V./Appsbroker Europe GmbH), 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 prior to the end of the relevant Term or Renewal Term.

4.

Definitions

4.1.

The following definitions apply in these Product Specific Terms:

Bespoke Workspace Roadmap Calls: means a session to review the latest Google product updates and roadmap reviews including impact analysis and change management actions which have been tailored to the Customer’s needs and licence SKUs.

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 assigned to the Customer, 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.

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 in the Customer’s Workspace Environment

Quarterly Business Reviews: means strategic reviews of the Customer’s usage of the Customer’s Workspace Environment in order to improve service quality and assist the Customer to utilise Google Cloud.

Service Level Agreement or SLA: means:

Priority Level

Description

Response Time

Availability

Available Support Channels*

P1

Production Outage

30 minutes

24/7

Phone outside of Business Hours.
Support Portal or Email during Business Hours.

P2

Severe Production System Issues

2 Hours

Business Hours

Support Portal, Email or Phone during Business Hours

P3

Minor Issues in production / non-production

1 Business Day

Business Hours

Support Portal, Email or Phone during Business Hours

P4

Change Request, Service Requests and questions

2 Business Days

Business Hours

Support Portal or Email

*Available Support Channels

Support Portal

https://support.qodea.com

Email

help@support.qodea.com

Phone

+44 161 302 5125

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

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

Support Specialist: means an individual to deal with service requests that require escalation from the service desk.