Institutional

Digital service transformation with Govform behind you

For governments, public institutions and regulated organisations that need more than access to software.

Combine the Govform Digital Service Builder with the support, assurance, delivery and commercial relationship needed for complex or mission-critical services.

The operating model

When the service matters, the operating model matters too.

Some organisations simply need a powerful platform. Others need the platform provider to participate in delivery.

Institutional is for the second group. It creates a contracted relationship around Govform that can include dedicated support, tailored service levels, assurance, implementation, migration and bespoke technical requirements.

01Central, federal and national government
02Government agencies and regulators
03Regional and local public authorities
04Health and public-service organisations
05Universities and research institutions
06Public corporations
07Justice and regulatory bodies
08Highly regulated organisations
Central Government pricing

Enhanced support for government services

Central government services use an Enhanced tier, with governance and assurance support, additional security hardening, and hosting in a separate government cloud environment.

Each service is priced separately. Its page count and monthly transaction volume determine which Enhanced tiers it qualifies for. Each service pays its own tier's monthly support fee, plus transaction charges.

A small service on Tier 1 and a high-volume service on Tier 3 would have combined support fees of £1,254 a month (£47 + £1,207), plus their respective transaction charges.

Enhanced Tier 1

£47/month
Support per service, plus transaction charges
  • Per transaction£1.21
  • PagesFewer than 25
  • Monthly transactionsUp to 500

Enhanced Tier 2

£358/month
Support per service, plus transaction charges
  • Per transaction£0.61
  • PagesFewer than 50
  • Monthly transactionsUp to 1,500

Enhanced Tier 3

£1,207/month
Support per service, plus transaction charges
  • Per transaction£0.066
  • PagesNo limit
  • Monthly transactionsNo limit

Estimate the cost of one service

Enter its page count and expected monthly transactions. We'll show the lowest-cost tier for which it qualifies.

Prices exclude VAT and are introductory pricing for the first three services. This is an estimate for one live service; bespoke Institutional support, delivery and contract terms are agreed separately.

Estimated monthly cost

Enhanced Tier 1

Monthly support for this service£47.00
100 transactions × £1.21£121.00
Total for this service / month£168.00
Private Cloud

Your whole service estate. Your own cloud.

For central government departments and other organisations running 100 or more services, Private Cloud combines fixed platform pricing with the freedom to host Govform in your own cloud.

Discuss Private Cloud

Fixed pricing for 100+ services

Fixed platform prices covering 100 or more services, for predictable budgeting across your estate.

Complete isolation from the shared platform

Your Govform application and data run in your own dedicated environment, separate from Govform’s shared cloud.

Your cloud, your control

Self-host in AWS, Google Cloud or Azure, within your organisation’s own cloud accounts and security boundaries.

A deeper partnership

The same powerful Digital Service Builder. A different level of partnership.

Your teams use the same platform for accessible applications, portals, data collections, workflows and transactional services. What changes is the relationship around it.

01

Dedicated support

Named contacts, agreed escalation routes and customer-specific service levels where required.

02

Architecture and integration

Complex integrations, identity architecture and service patterns spanning multiple systems.

03

Security and assurance

Questionnaires, technical workshops, evidence requests and resilience discussions.

04

Delivery and migration

Service design, implementation, service builds, migration programmes and estate conversion.

05

Governance and operations

Regular governance and account-level engagement for broader delivery programmes.

06

Bespoke procurement

Formal procurement, negotiated contracts, tailored packaging and contractual review.

Complete journeys

Build more than forms

Citizen-facing, business-facing and internal services where a basic form-and-email tool is not enough.

01

Applications and registrations

Branching journeys with validation, evidence, saved progress and authentication.

02

Regulatory returns

Structured datasets, calculations, validation and operational-system integration.

03

Case management frontends

Find, view and update records held in another system.

04

Portals and multi-stage services

Homepages, multiple journeys, task lists and saved work.

05

Reviews and approvals

Review, approval, return-for-changes and multi-party authorisation.

06

Eligibility and decisioning

Trusted APIs, rules and server-side results that control the journey.

07

Evidence-heavy services

Secure documents, privacy processing and configurable validation.

08

Operational workflows

Notifications, APIs, assignment, document generation and downstream actions.

Connected architecture

Integrate Govform into your existing technology estate

Use Govform as the user-facing service layer while retaining authoritative data and business processes in the platforms you already operate.

Institutional engagements can include solution design for patterns beyond documented standard integration.

PeopleStaffPartners
GovformService layer
IdentityCase dataEvidence

Lookup and validate

Check information against authoritative data before a user proceeds.

Retrieve and update

Fetch an existing record and send authorised changes back.

Submit to case management

Transform service data for a downstream operational system.

Notify multiple parties

Trigger messages and actions for applicants, staff and systems.

Store evidence where needed

Use Govform storage or your SharePoint, S3, Google Cloud Storage or Azure Blob Storage, with streaming delivery of large files and confirmed bulk returns.

Orchestrate journeys

Call systems in sequence and route users using the resulting status.

Identity

Know who the user is, when the service needs to

Build authenticated journeys for known users, staff and organisational accounts. For complex identity models, work directly with Govform on the architecture.

  • Save and return
  • Multiple concurrent applications
  • Role-based journeys
  • Group access
  • Reviewer access
  • Record management
  • Internal staff services
  • Shared submissions
Secure content

Uploaded content is part of the threat model

Accept evidence files up to 20 GB where configured, with storage and processing limits matched to your service. CDR scans first and reconstructs supported single-file uploads, with a 50 MB default limit. For your own supported store, choose Govform scan-first or parallel scanning (currently up to 5 GB), or use your destination’s controls without Govform scanning.

  • Rebuild supported Office files without unsupported active components
  • Rasterise PDFs into controlled image-only representations
  • Inspect links in supported Office documents
  • Let users review reconstructed documents
  • Strip image metadata, resize images and blur detected faces where configured

Compare upload, storage and security options

Darcy AI

AI-assisted delivery with human governance

Darcy can create pages, draft accessible content, construct logic and make targeted changes. In institutional environments, it works within Govform access and change-management mechanisms, with human control and version history.

Controlled delivery

Three test environments. Controlled production releases.

Build and test in Prototype, QA and Early Access QA before releasing to Production. Review full service version history, compare changes and revert to an earlier version, then add the assurance and release processes your organisation requires.

01

Prototype

Design services, test journeys and validate ideas.

02

QA

Test integrations, permissions and release candidates.

03

Early Access QA

Assess upcoming platform features using your service journeys.

04

Production

Promote approved versions through controlled release.

Technical design reviewsSecurity evidenceGo-live assuranceOperational readinessResilience discussionsRelease planning
Choosing the right route

Cloud Estate or Institutional?

The distinction is intentionally simple.

Cloud Estate

Operate the platform yourself

For organisations with significant capacity needs and the capability to run the platform.

  • Build and maintain your own services
  • Use documented capabilities and standard integrations
  • Work with standard security evidence
  • Use ticket-based product support
  • Purchase against published commercial terms
Explore Cloud Estate
Scale deliberately

Support for transformation, not just implementation

Start with a handful of legacy services, establish a reusable architecture and prove the operating model. Then expand across programmes or the wider institution.

Internal teams, systems integrators and delivery partners can build on Govform while we provide the product, enablement and agreed support.

01Platform governance
02Reusable service patterns
03Integration conventions
04Common identity approaches
05Migration prioritisation
06Delivery standards
07Service templates
08Training and enablement
Commercial model

Arrangements built around the institution

Enhanced tier rates for central government are published above. For bespoke Institutional engagements, we agree platform capacity, delivery and the service relationship with you.

Discuss your requirements
Service estate sizeProduction usageSupport model and SLAsDelivery involvementMigration requirementsIntegration complexityAssurance requirementsIdentity and infrastructureProcurement obligations
Questions

Institutional FAQ

Practical answers about support, delivery and the right commercial route.

Ready when you are

One platform for rapid service delivery. An institutional relationship when the mission requires it.

Give teams and partners a platform they can use repeatedly, with deeper support, assurance and delivery when the work demands it.