Our services

Three levels of service are available through the North West SDE.

These services are aligned with the National SDE network commercial approach, which ensures a consistent service offer and user experience across the SDE network.

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Provision of a secure research environment, including delivery of data into the secure environment; research tools, archiving storage where required and tech support.

Charge to include:

Secure data environment workspace configuration including data engineering to supply assets and data provider charges associated with provisioning data.

Technology – third party platform base cost contribution, project specific compute, storage and tool charges and sundry software licences.

Consultancy as a Service (CaaS)

Research support and advisory services (data analysis and clinical support).

Charge to include:

People with subject matter expertise used to support the researcher based on a national rate card price per day/hour.

Data as a Service (DaaS)

Published and agreed, bespoke data sets.

Charge to include:

A negotiated price for bespoke data sets that may include pricing for royalty or intellectual property if the output from the project is to be commercialised at a later date.

Service charges

Each project request will be individually evaluated based on several factors including type of request and complexity.

Timelines

Timelines will be dependent on type of request and complexity. This will be agreed during the enquiry/application process.