PRECONVISION LIMITED
BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLAN
NOVEMBER 26th 2020
Business Name: PRECONVISION LIMITED
Address: 100 Bishopsgate, 18th Floor, TT02, City of London. EC2M 1GT. LONDON. UK.
Web/email/telephone: www.preconvision.co.uk hello@www.preconvision.co.uk 020 3745 6995
This Business Continuity Plan (BCP) is an internal operational document that is constantly monitored and updated to reflect our on-going business needs.
- The person with overall responsibility for our BCP is Christopher Breiner
- This BCP was last tested on November 26th 2020.
- This BCP has been distributed to Christopher Breiner (Director), Robert Bowels (Business Development Manager (Construction))
- Copies of this BCP are held at Apple iCloud Server.
- Our off-site recovery location is Rope Street, Surrey Quays, South Dock. LONDON
- Our premises were last tested for fire safety on November 26th 2020.
- Our emergency evacuation procedures were last tested on November 26th 2020.
- Our security system was last tested on November 26th 2020.
Potential Incidents:
It is useful to set out at the beginning of the BCP what all the potential risks to the business are and in each case what the level of risk is. How the business approaches the rest of this BCP will very much depend upon what the perceived level of risk is for each potential incident.
The following potential incidents could impact our business:
- Severe weather (low)
- Theft or vandalism (low)
- Fire (low)
- IT system failure (low)
- Restricted access to premises (low)
- Illness of key staff (low)
- Outbreak of disease or infection (high)
- Malicious attack (low)
- Disasters/incidents affecting suppliers (low)
- Disasters/incidents affecting customers (low)
Business Impact Analysis:
To prepare your business to cope with the effects of an incident (those listed above), set out below is a Business Impact Analysis (BIA) that identifies a business’ key products and services and how each would be impacted in the event of an incident within particular critical time frames.
Key Product(s) & Service(s) |
Client/Customer Support Administration & Legal Information Technology Research & Development |
Effect on Service:
Time Frame | Effect on Service (in the event of a specified disruption) |
First hour | Working from alternative environment with iPad Pro tablet |
First 24 hours | Working from alternative environment from an iPad Pro tablet/ laptop from cloud storage data |
24-48 hours | Rope Street, Surrey Quays. London. Working from iPad Pro tablet/ laptop, from cloud storage data |
Up to 1 week | Setup new office in Rope Street, Surrey Quays. London. Buy PC tower for better power performance |
Up to 2 weeks | Working from Rope Street Office, Surrey Quays. London. Working with PC tower and work station |
Beyond 2 weeks | Continue working from Rope Street Office, Surrey Quays. London. Working with PC tower and work station |
Resources required for recovery:
Time Frame | Resources Required (staff, documents, IT etc) | Relocation required? |
First hour | iPad Pro tablet, Laptop, connect to iPhone 5G network | Local café |
First 24 hours | iPad Pro tablet, Laptop, connect to iPhone 5G network | Local café |
24-48 hours | I.T. infrastructure setup | Rope Street Office, Surrey Quays. London |
Up to 1 week
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I.T. infrastructure setup | Rope Street Office, Surrey Quays. London |
Up to 2 weeks | I.T. infrastructure setup | Rope Street Office, Surrey Quays. London |
Beyond 2 weeks | I.T. infrastructure setup | Rope Street Office, Surrey Quays. London |
A Business Impact Analysis such as above will need to be done for each potential incident that the business identifies as the effect on service will be different for each incident.
Recovery Action Plan
Based on the above BIA, the tasks that the business will need to do in order to recover and within what time frame, should be listed here.
Task | Detail | Instructions/Contact Numbers | Completed (?) |
First hour | Find alternative safe place to work | Contact client for update, confirm no interruption of service | Within first house |
First 24 hours | Working from Rope Street, Surrey Quays, London address | Business as usual, keeping client informed at all times what is happening | Within 24 hours |
24-48 hours | Working from Rope Street, Surrey Quays, London address | Business as usual, keeping client informed at all times what is happening | Within 24-48 hours |
Up to 1 week | Working from Rope Street, Surrey Quays, London address | Business as usual, keeping client informed at all times what is happening | Up to 1 week |
Up to 2 weeks | Working from Rope Street, Surrey Quays, London address | Business as usual, keeping client informed at all times what is happening | Up to 2 weeks |
Beyond 2 weeks | Working from Rope Street, Surrey Quays, London address | Business as usual, keeping client informed at all times what is happening | Beyond 2 weeks |
Staff Contact Details
It is useful to have a full list of all staff contact details in the event of an incident.
Name | Home Address | Mobile Tel Number | Home Tel Number | |
Christopher Breiner | **************** | ************* | *********************** | ******************** |
Robert Bowles | **************** | ************* | *********************** | ******************** |
Paolo Grungo | **************** | ************* | *********************** | ******************** |
Adam J. Zygadlo | **************** | ************* | *********************** | ******************** |
Mark Summerfield | **************** | ************* | *********************** | ******************** |
Abi Philips | **************** | ************* | *********************** | ******************** |
Key staff – roles & responsibilities
In the event of a specified incident certain key staff should be assigned specific roles & responsibilities. This should be recorded below. In order to make sure that the relevant staff are fully up to date in their assigned role(s), they should receive relevant training and this should also be recorded below.
Name | Role | Responsibility | Date relevant training last received |
Christopher Breiner | Director | Overall responsibility for BCP | November 26th 2020 |
Robert Bowels | Business Development Manager (Construction) | Review BCP | November 26th 2020 |
Business contact details – suppliers & customers
Identifying key customers and suppliers is critical to business continuity planning. Their contact details should be set out below.
Supplier/customer | Company | Contact Details |
Joe Zygadlo | Zygabyte Computers | +44 (0) 1623 658888 |
Alternative Supplier Details
In the event that the supply chain to critical goods is interrupted, the business must be able to quickly identify alternative supply sources. These should be set out below.
Company | Details of goods supplied | Contact Details |
Alastair Head | StrongboxTechnology.com | +44 (0) 845 88 88 555 |
Other useful telephone numbers (for example utility companies)
In the event of an incident it is useful to have contact details of for example, utility companies, quickly to hand. This will enable the business to get up and moving whether at its own location or a different location as quickly as possible.
Company/Account Details | Contact | Telephone Number(s) |
Regus Signature/Head Office | Ceri Prinsloo | +44 (0) 207 039 8502 |
Insurance Details
This section of the BCP will help the business focus on whether it has sufficient insurance in place given the nature of the potential incidents it has highlighted at the beginning of the BCP and the details of its policies for when it needs to contact insurers following an incident.
Company | Contact | Telephone Number(s) | Policy Details |
AVIVA Business Insurance | Property – Buildings, Contents and Tools, Stock & Business Equipment (24 hours) | +44 (0) 345 030 7074 | 80024490CHC |
Back-up information/equipment register
This is one of the key sections of the BCP where the business sets out what information and equipment is critical to the functioning of the business, how that information is stored and backed-up. This register should also list where its Emergency Pack is kept and what it contains.
IT records/back-up details/data location | Two number SEAGATE external hard-drives with 4TB each of storage (within security key access metal storage cabinet)
& Apple iCloud Server |
Critical documents records/information location | Two number SEAGATE external hard-drives with 4TB each of storage (within security key access metal storage cabinet)
& Apple iCloud Server |
Asset register/inventories/
key equipment records |
Two number SEAGATE external hard-drives with 4TB each of storage (within security key access metal storage cabinet)
& Apple iCloud Server |
Emergency Pack contents & location | Two number SEAGATE external hard-drives with 4TB each of storage (within security key access metal storage cabinet)
& Apple iCloud Server |
Additional Notes
We will review and update our business continuity plan in 12 months