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Document Title: POA Customer Service Major Incident Process
Document Type: Process (PRO)
Release: Not Applicable
Abstract: This document describes the Customer Service Major Incident
Management Process.
Document Status: APPROVED
Author & Dept: Mike Woolgar — RMG BU CS Service Delivery Manager
Internal Distribution: Peter Thompson, Adam Parker, Mike Woolgar, lan Venables, Dave

Keeling, Andy Gibson, Steve Parker, Dave Jackson, Mike Stewart,
Nick Crow, Neneh Lowther, Dave Wilcox, lan Mills ,Tom Lillywhite
Michael Jacklin, Sarah Hill, Leighton Machin, Karen Harrod, Sandie
Bothick, Susan Appleby-Robbins, Adrienne Thompson, Claire
Drake, Bill Membury, Vince Cochrane, Pat Lywood, Saha
Saptarshi, Steve Bansal, Tony Atkinson, Saheed Salawu, John Hill

External Distribution: Dave Hulbert (POL), Mark Weaver (POL), Gary Blackburn (POL)
Alan Simpson( POL)

Security Risk YES

Assessment Confirmed

Approval Authorities:
Name Role Date
Gaeten Van Achte RMG BU Service Director

Note: See Royal Mail Group Account HNG-X Reviewers/Approvers Role Matrix (PGM/DCM/ION/0001) for
guidance.

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0 Document Control

0.1 Table of Contents

0 DOCUMENT CONTROL.

0.1 Table of Contents.
0.2 Document History.
0.3 Review Details..
0.4 Acceptance by Document Re’
0.5 Associated Documents (Internal & External
0.6 Abbreviations.
0.7 Glossary...

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0.8 Changes Expecte

0.9

0.10

1 INTRODUCTION..

1.1. Process Owner.

1.2 Process Obje

1.3. Process Rationale.

2 MANDATORY GUIDELINES.....

3 DEFINITION OF A MAJOR INCIDENT. 10

3.1 Incident Classification...
3.2. Influencing Factors in calling Major Incident..
3.3. Major Incident Triggers.
3.3.1 Network Triggers...
3.3.2 Infrastructure Components Trigger:
3.3.3 Data Centre Triggers....
3.3.4 On-Line Services Triggers.
3.3.5 Security Triggers...

4 CALLING THE MAJOR INCIDENT......

5 PROCESS FLOW.....

5.1 Process Description (Any reference below made to T, = Time of incident occurring. Hence
T+3 = Time Incident Occurred plus 3 minutes). eae

6 CONFERENCE CALLS

6.1. Tech Bridge...
6.2. Service Bridg:

7 FORMAL INCIDENT CLOSURE & MAJOR INCIDENT REVIEW....
7.1 Calculating Liquidated Damages payable on Major Incidents.......

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8 FUJITSU SERVICES ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES DURING A MAJOR
INCIDENT...

8.1 Role of the HSD IMT.
8.2. Role of the Major Incident Manager.
8.3 Role of the Problem Manager...
8.4 Role of the Technical Recovery Manager.
8.5 Role of the SDUs: Technical Teams / Thir
8.6 Role of the Service Delivery Manager Who Owns the Affected Service.

9 POST OFFICE / FUJITSU SERVICES INTERFACES.

10 APPENDICES

10.1 List of Templates...
10.2 Major Incident Manager Contact Details.
10.3 Out of Hours Duty Manager Contact Details.
10.4 Service Delivery Managers Contact Details.
10.5 Escalation Communication Protocol.
10.6 Major Business Continuity Incidents (MBCI
10.7 Security Major Incidents.

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0.2 Document History

Version No. Date Summary of Changes and Reason for Issue Associated Change -
CP/PEAK/PPRR
Reference
ot 03-Oct-06 First draft — to detail the Major Incident Escalation process. Draft
taken from Horizon Document CS/PRD/122, V1.0.
1.0 11-Oct-06 Revision following comments from Reviewers
2.0 02-Sep-08 Changes for Acceptance by Document Review: insertion of

Section (0.4) containing table of cross references for Acceptance
by Document Review and addition of note to front page. No other
content changes.

24 24-Feb-2009 I Changes made for Acceptance by Document Review by Fiona
Woolfenden including the removal of references to CS/PRD/O74
which has been Withdrawn and replaced by SVM/SD/PRO/0018
and other tidying up changes.

Other changes to update Contact details.

22 14-Apr-2009 Some Personnel Name changes and POA to RMG BU +
Abbreviations. Security Updates to sections 5.1, 6.3, 8.2.1, 9.0,

23 3-June-2009 Some Personnel Changes and minor changes following review in
May 2009

3.0 T-duuly-2009 Following security audit 2 minor changes. Alan Simpson now on
distribution and 6.3, an extra bullet entry added at end of list

3.0 7-duly-2009 Following security audit 2 minor changes. Alan Simpson now on
distribution and 6.3, an extra bullet entry added at end of list.

34 14-Jan-2010 Changes following director failing to sign off v3.0, plus minor
contact changes.

40 26-Mar-2010 I Approval version

44 18-May-2010 I Following team restructure, the process has been significantly
reviewed

42 03-Jun-2010 Updated following minor comments provided during review cycle

of version 4.1. This version will be presented for approval at v5.0

5.0 07-Jun-2010 _I Approval version

0.3 Review Details

Review Comments by

Mike Woolgar, Adam Parker & RMGADocumentManagement@} _.

Review Comments to

Mandatory Review

Role Name

RMG BU Service Director Gaeten Van Achte

RMG BU Head of Service Operations Tony Atkinson

RMG BU Service Operations Lead SDM. Saheed Salawu

Optional Review

Role Name

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RMG BU Business Continuity Manager Adam Parker

RMG BU Service Delivery Manager Engineering Susan Appleby-Robbins

RMG BU Service Delivery Manager On-Line Mike Stewart

Services

RMG BU System Support Centre Manager Pete Thompson

FUJITSU HSD Operations Manager Michael Jacklin

FUJITSU SMC Manager Saha Saptarshi

RMG BU Data Centre Operations SDM Claire Drake

RMG BU HSD SDM Sandie Bothick

FUJITSU Acceptance Manager David Cooke

Issued for Information — Please restrict this

distribution list to a minimum

Position/Role Name

RMG BU Service Delivery Manager: Networks lan Mills

RMG BU CISO. Tom Lillywhite

Unix Team Leader Andy Gibson

NT Team Leader Adrienne Thompson

Network Manager Dave Jackson

DC Operations Manager John Hill

(* ) = Reviewers that returned comments

0.4 Acceptance by Document Review

The sections in this document that have been identified to POL as comprising evidence to support
Acceptance by Document review (DR) are listed below for the relevant Requirements:

NFR DR Internal FS Pt Document Document Section Heading
ince Ref NFR Reference Section Number
SER-2200 SER-2178 Whole Document
SER-2202 SER-2179 Whole Document
SEC-3095 SEC-3266 3.3.5 Security Triggers
SEC-3095 SEC-3266 10.5 ‘Security Major Incidents

0.5 Associated Documents (Internal & External)

Reference Versiot Date Title Source
PGM/DCM/TEM/0001 Fujitsu Services Royal Mail Group Account I Dimensions
(D0 NOT REMOVE) HNG-X Document Template
CS/IFS/008 RMGA/POL Interface Agreement for the PVCS
Problem Management Interface
CS/PRD/021 RMGA Problem Management Process PvCS
CS/PRO/110 RMGA Problem Management Database PVCS
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Procedures
PA/PRO/001 Change Control Process PvCS
CS/QMS/001 Customer Service Policy Manual PvcS
SVM/SDM/SD/0001 Service Desk — Service Description Dimensions
CS/PLA/O15, Horizon Systems Service Desk and PVCS
Business Continuity Plan
SVM/SDM/PLA/0001 HNG-X Support Services Business Dimensions
Continuity Plan
SVM/SDM/PLA/O002 HNG-X Services Business Continuity Plan Dimensions
SVM/SDM/PLA/0030 HNG-X Engineering Service Business Dimensions
Continuity Plan
SVM/SDM/PLA/0031 HNG-X Security Business Continuity Plan Dimensions
SVM/SDM/SD/0011 Branch Network Services Service Dimensions
Description
SVM/SDM/PRO/0018 CS Incident Management Process. Dimensions

Unless a specific version is referred to above, reference should be made to the current approved

versions of the documents.

0.6 Abbreviations

Abbreviation Definition

AtG Advice & Guidance

BCP Business Continuity Plan

HSD Horizon Service Desk

IMT Incident Management Team

Iso International Standards Organisation

ITIL Information Technology Infrastructure Library

KEDB Known Error Database

KEL Known Error Log

MBCI Major Business Continuity Incident

MIM Major Incident Manager

MIR Major Incident Report

MSU Management Support Unit

ocp Operational Change Proposal

PO Post Office

POL Post Office Limited

RFC Request For Change

RMG BU. Royal Mail Group Business Unit

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scT Service Continuity Team
SDM(s) Service Delivery Manager(s)

(NB: Throughout this document SDM refers to a person responsible for the Service,
and the SDM could work in, but not limited to, the Service Delivery, Service
Support, Release Management or Security teams.

SDU Service Delivery Unit

SLT Service Level Targets

SMC Systems Management Centre

SRRC Service Resilience & Recovery Catalogue
ssc ‘System Support Centre

TB Technical Bridge

TRM Technical Recovery Manager

VIP VIP Post Office, High Profile Outlet

0.7 Glossary

T Time of incident occurring

T+3 Time Incident Occurred plus 3 minutes

0.8 Changes Expected

Cee

0.9 Accuracy

Fujitsu Services endeavours to ensure that the information contained in this document is correct but, whilst every
effort is made to ensure the accuracy of such information, it accepts no liability for any loss (however caused)
sustained as a result of any error or omission in the same.

0.10 Security Risk Assessment

Security risks have been assessed and it is considered that there are no security risks relating specifically to this
document.

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1 Introduction

1.1 Process Owner
The owner of this process is the RMG BU Lead SDM, Service Operations.

1.2 Process Objective

The key objective of the process is to ensure effective and efficient management of Major Incidents,
through:

e Improvements of communication channels.

e Clarify the need to communicate awareness of potential incidents

e Improved accuracy of reporting against status of incident

e Allowing technical teams the right amount of time to diagnose and impact an incident
e Avoid unnecessary alerting of the customer

e Demonstrate to the Post Office a more professional approach

e Provision of clear defined roles and responsibilities

e Defined reporting/update timelines through duration of a major incident.

e Improved governance

e Assessing which incidents are major and which are ‘Business as Usual’

1.3. Process Rationale

This document outlines the communication and management process and guidelines to be followed in
relation to Major Incidents impacting the live estate.

The methodology defined within this document augments the existing SMS framework process presently
deployed within the live estate.

The aim of the document is to provide a pre-defined process on which future major incident
communication and management will follow and that any parties involved in that process provide
updates /receive updates at defined intervals from inception to closure of any major service impacts.

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Mandatory Guidelines

Whilst it is important to maintain a balance between:

a) Allowing the technical teams the right amount of time to diagnose and impact an incident

b) Avoid unnecessary alerting of the customer

c) Assessing which incidents are major

The following guidelines should be adhered to.

During HSD IMT Core Hours (Monday — Friday 08:00 — 18:00 and Saturday 08:00 - 14:00) HSD.
IMT should be the first point of contact for operational contact between Fujitsu and the end user.
Outside these hours SMC acts as the first point of contact.

Any activity detailed in this document which is assigned to the HSD IMT is handed over to SMC
outside the HSD IMT Core Hours.

The relevant technical teams who are monitoring and aware of a potential major incident must
page/call the appropriate Major Incident Manager (Duty Manager out of hours) as soon as
possible, rather than wait This is not limited to major incidents alone, but must be delivered
wherever a state other than Business as Usual has been detected. The Major Incident Manager
must in turn communicate the potential incident, to POL SD for awareness and monitoring in
POL. This is usually done via the HSD IMT in hours.

The Major Incident Manager (or Duty Manager out of hours) is responsible for communicating
both up the Fujitsu Organisation and across (see appendix 10.3) to their counterpart in POL.
Where this is impractical (i.e. leave, out of hours, unavailable), the initiative should be taken to
jump up the organisation. The important fact is that the customer is informed in a timely manner
and at the correct touch point. This communication should be by voice or direct SMS. The
communication should include the date, time, name, nature of problem, severity, if service
affecting, likely impact, and the owner for contact.

The Major Incident Manager (Duty Manager OOH) should also initiate communication using
SMS via HSD IMT, 08.00 to 18.00 Monday to Friday, and Saturday 08.00 to 14.00. Outside of
these hours, SMS should be via SMC.

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3 Definition of a Major Incident

3.1 Incident Classification

As a general rule a Major Incident will always be an incident rated as severity level A (critical) in the
RMG BU Customer Service Incident Management Process Details document (SVM/SDM/PRO/0018)
version 2.0, or a series of connected lower severity rated Incidents which combine to have a significant
business impact. However not all incidents rated at severity level A qualify. This is because the severity
levels do not necessarily translate to the global business impact on POL’s business. For example a
single counter post office which is unable to transact, regardless of its business volumes is rated as a
Severity A.

For simplicity, Incidents are classified into three impact levels: High, Medium and Low.

High — An Incident that has occurred with a significant and potentially prolonged adverse impact on POL
business. Typically these Incidents will initially require a significant amount of reactive management
before they can be controlled and resolved.

Medium — An Incident that has the potential to cause significant impact to POL business but can be
controlled and mitigated against through effective management.

Low — An Incident that requires business attention but if managed effectively will not have significant
impact on POL business.

3.2 Influencing Factors in calling Major Incident

It is important that a major incident is defined as such, because of its business impact on the day when it
occurs, rather than simply being defined as a major incident because it appears on a list. The following
parameters will also feed into the consideration of whether a major incident exists, as follows:

e Duration i.e. how long has the vulnerability to service already existed

e Impact across the estate, including consideration of whether a service is merely degraded or
actually stopped

e Time at which the event occurs in relation to the 24 hour business day
e Time of year - eg Christmas / Easter / End of month/quarter DVLA

e Anticipated time before service can be resumed

e Impact to POL Branches, customers, clients or brand image

e Business initiatives e.g. product launches

3.3 Major Incident Triggers

The criteria below could trigger a major incident, however as detailed in 3.2, the influencing factors must
be considered. As such the list below can never be exhaustive, whilst if an incident occurs which is not
detailed, this should not be precluded from being a major incident.

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3.3.1. Network Triggers

Network Major Incident triggers are as follows:
« Complete or significant outage of Central network
« Complete or significant outage of BT network

« Complete or significant outage of VSAT sites

3.3.2 Infrastructure Components Triggers
Infrastructure component Major Incident Triggers are as follows:
e Total loss of environments providing individual on-line service capability
« Breach of access to data centres
e Breach of security
« Virus outbreak

3.3.3. Data Centre Triggers

Data Centre Major Incident triggers are as follows:
e Network/LAN outage
« Loss of data centre

e Breach of security

3.3.4 On-Line Services Triggers
On-Line services Major Incident Triggers are as follows:
e On-line service unavailable within Data centre (not counter level)
e Number of Branches not able to provide on-line services — as defined by POL

* 3% party provided service failure — Link, Fujitsu Group

3.3.5 Security Triggers

Security major incident triggers are as follows:
e Actual or suspected attacks on the Fujitsu Services RMG BU Network or Information System.
e Theft of IT equipment / property, including software

In the event of a Security Major Incident (which may also include PCI Incidents), the security incident
management process as detailed in

SVM/SDM/PRO/0018 Appendix A must also be followed by the security SDM.

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SVM/SDM/PLA/0031 HNG-X Security Business Continuity Plan defines the actions to be taken if
security violations are identified. This must also be followed by the SDM owning the service.

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4 Calling the Major Incident

During business hours the Major Incident Manager declares and manages Major Incident (with
handovers to the Duty Manager where applicable.)

Where the impact of the incident is not immediately obvious, and it is not clear if Major Incident should
be called, escalation and discussion with the RMG BU Lead SDM, Service Operations, RMG BU Head of
Service Operations or RMG BU Service Director should occur, and a collective decision made. If Major
Incident is not called, the incident should be monitored until closure, to ensure that the impact does not
increase to Major Incident.

In the event that multiple Services are impacted, multiple Major Incident Managers will be appointed by
RMG BU Lead SDM, Service Operations, RMG BU Head of Service Operations or RMG BU Service
Director, who will remain in this role until incident closure.

Out of hours the Duty Manager is responsible for declaring Major Incident.

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5.1 Process Description (Any reference below made to T, = Time of incident occurring. Hence T+3 = Time Incident Occurred plus 3 minutes).

I Box Title

‘Description: ae

Key timescales: [A

Action owner

Major incident identi ed?

Incident identified, the definition of an incident is “Any event which is not part of the standard operation of a service and
which causes, or may cause, an interruption to, or a reduction in, the quality of that service.” (SVM/SDM/PRO/0018). An

Incident may be reported from within POL domain, a supplier domain or other route

Major Incident Triggers Met?

An initial impact assessment of the incident is undertaken by I T+3
members of the RMG BU Service Team taking into account

impact on: All timescales

quoted within
Live Service, Financial Integrity, Business Image this document

The incident is profiled as a Major Incident as outlined within a8 be
this document, including consideration of all influencing improved , upon
factors, time, geographical coverage, business impact, wherever
security, public perception, duration and relevant business ossible
initiatives coinciding at POL and decision taken to call Major Pr

Incident.

The Major Incident Manager will consult with the Business
Continuity Plans (Ch 10.6) to identify if potential MBCI or
MBCI triggers have been met and inform RMG BU Business
Continuity Manager if appropriate.

POL SD will be informed by the Major Incident Manager of the
incident & the incident will also be escalated to Service
Delivery / Service Support team managers, if this has not
already occurred.

T+5

With agreement from RMG BU Service Delivery Manager, or
Duty Manager out of hours, SMS will be sent to RMG BU and
POL Management alerting to the potential existence of a Major

Major Incident Manager

Major Incident Manager

HSD IMT (in hours)
SMC (out of hours)

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Incident.

BAU Incident Process

If Major Incident is not declared then the BAU Incident process is followed —- POL SD will be informed that there is no MI &
a closure SMS sent. The SDM for the service should ensure that the Incident is re-impacted during its lifecycle to ensure
that the impact has not increased. If, subsequently the incident is declared Major Incident, move to box “Incident

Investigation and Diagnosis started”.

Incident Investigation & Diagnosis Relevant internal SDUs / Third Parties contacted to initiate I T+ 5 Major Incident Manager
investigation & diagnosis.
Major Incident Report opened Major Incident Manager
Tech Bridge scheduled & agenda distributed.

Tech Bridge The Tech Bridge is chaired by the Major Incident Manager with I T + 15 Major Incident Manager

assistance from the Technical Recovery Manager. The Tech
Bridge is SERVICE FOCUSSED.

The Tech Bridge aims :

e To discuss & agree the recovery investigation & resolution
of Major Incidents

e To provide a forum for up-to-date progress reports

e To aid communication, and the creation of Technical
Bridge Minutes which are distributed to all involved parties
and RMG BU & POL Management. This ensures that
Major Incident progress is known by all.

* To collate information for inclusion on the Service Portal.

Attendees at the Tech Bridge include, but are not limited to,
RMG BU Service Management, SDU, Third Parties, POL, CS
Security & POL Security Managers

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The Tech Bridge follows a set agenda which covers:

Roll call, Summary of Incident, Incident Overview,
Current Impact, Current Investigation / Recovery Action,
Remedial Actions, Actions to carry forward to Major
Incident Review

The agenda template is stored on

7 nder Service Support > Major Incident -
Management Templates

Following the Tech Bridge, a further SMS will be sent,
providing an update on the Incident

If the outcome of the Tech Bridge is that the Incident is
determined Business As Usual (low) then an SMS
communication will be sent stating that the Incident is not a
Major Incident.

From this point forward, SMS communication, timing and
delivery requests, becomes the responsibility of the Major
Incident Manager. 30-minute updates should be the norm

The Major Incident Manager will also distribute minutes
following the conference call.

TRM will provide summary minutes to the MIM who will
distribute the minutes.

At the time agreed at the first Tech Bridge, the subsequent
Tech Bridges are held. The same agenda is followed, and
progress on actions / recovery is provided.

If no clear recovery path is identified, the decision is then
taken on whether to escalate for Service Bridge direction

Tech Bridge +
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Clear recovery path identified

If during the conference call a clear recovery path is identified, this should be discussed and agreed on the call. Following

agreement the recovery should be implemented.

If there is no clear recovery path, further investigation will be undertaken.

Recovery / Investigation The Technical Recovery Manager will liaise with the SDUs and I T + x Technical Recovery Manager
/or third parties during the investigation / recovery.
Where appropriate a Technical Bridge will be called for a
technical discussion of the Major Incident.
Tech Bridge 1+ T+x Major Incident Manager
Service Bridge The nature of the incident determines which RMG BU Service I Timescale Major Incident Manager

Team members and POL Managers are involved in the
Service Bridge but it would include all or some of the following:

POL

Major Incident Manager (Service Bridge Chairman)
Technical Recovery Manager (if appropriate)

RMG BU Service Director

RMG BU Head of Service Operations

RMG BU Lead SDM, Service Operations

3rd party Executives (if appropriate)

Appointed working group representatives as appropriate

The purpose of the Service Bridge is to:

Provide appropriate direction on Incident resolution

dependant on
impact and
nature of
incident.

POL Service Manager

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Provide added impetus to restoration of service ASAP
Define communication intervals to Key Stakeholders

Provide focused Incident Management in line with the
impact and severity of the Incident.

Incident Resolution

Once the incident is deemed to be resolved, final Tech Bridge
is held to agree & confirm resolution of incident. Major Incident
Review date to be set at the final Tech Bridge.

SMS communication sent confirming resolution of incident.

Draft Major Incident Report distributed within 24hrs of
resolution of Major Incident.

Major Incident Manager

Major Incident Review & formal Incident
Closure

Formal Closure of the Major Incident & a review of the Incident
including consideration of:

Lessons learnt

Incident definition

What went well

Timeline

Changes required to infrastructure

A review of the Major Incident Communication Process
Root Cause Analysis * if known at this point

Business impact

Action plan

Service Improvement Plan update

RMG BU Lead SDM,
Operations

Service

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6 Conference Calls

6.1 Tech Bridge

Dial in details: I GRO I Participant code: 72551658#

This is a technical conference for experts to discuss and analyse the incident enabling an appropriate
action plan to be formulated to restore the service to POL without delay. The Technical Conference Call
will baseline the anticipated response, covering resolution, time and resources required.

The Technical Conference Call will be incepted as required by the Major Incident Manager.

Invitations to the Tech Bridge will be via SMS, email or voice. The dial in details will be provided at the
same time as the meeting invitation.

The Tech Bridge will be incepted at T + 15, and at regular intervals during the Major Incident, the exact
scheduling will be discussed and agreed at each preceding Major Incident Call.

Each Tech Bridge follows a set agenda which will be distributed with the meeting invitation where
possible. The conference call is chaired by the Major Incident Manager with the recovery managed by
the Technical Recovery Manager.

Following each Tech Bridge, a set of minutes will be published, which will subsequently form part of the
Major Incident Report stored on
~ ~ ~ under Service Support

> Major Incident Reports.

6.2 Serv

ice Bridge
~_GRO__ [Participant code: 48461705#

This is a Service Focussed call for Service Management (including technical recovery manager) and
POL to discuss the service impact of the Major Incident and to receive updates on progress of the
Incident.

The purpose of the Service Bridge is to provide a focused area from which strategic decisions can be
made regarding a Major Incident.

Attendance will be mandatory from the following or their designated representative:
e¢ RMG BU Service Director
« RMG BU Head of Service Operations
e RMG BU Business Continuity Manager
e RMG BU Service Delivery Manager / Owner (Business line specific)
« POL Head of Technical Services
e POL Service Delivery Manager
e POL Business Continuity Manager
* 3% Party Account/Service Delivery Manager
e RMG Security Manager (If MI is a PCI or Major Security Incident)
e POL Security Incident Manager (If MI is a PCI or Major Security incident)

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Actions within the Service Bridge include:

.

Agreement of Containment Plan

Documentation of all agreed actions with owners, and timescales
Consistent management of the major incident across all involved locations
Management of potential / MBCIs within POL & RMG BU

Co-ordinate meeting times and locations

In the event of a major incident requiring a Service Bridge to be incepted, it is envisaged that this will be
in place at T+60. Participants required in the Service Bridge will be contacted via SMS as appropriate.

The Major Incident Manager will call and chair a Service Bridge. The chair person’s code is held by the
RMG BU Service Director, RMG BU Head of Service Operations, RMG BU Lead SDM, Service
Operations. The Chairman will enter the call prior to the attendance of other callers and enter a
designated PIN, allowing direct entry for subsequent callers.

The TRM will be responsible for attending any meetings and providing appropriate root cause analysis
and corrective action detail

The Major Incident Review is chaired by the Major Incident Manager and follows a set agenda, which
should be distributed with the Major Incident Review meeting invite, along with the draft copy of the
Major Incident Report.

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7 Formal Incident Closure & Major Incident Review

The purpose of a Major Incident Review is:

1. To understand the Incident that prevented a Service or Services from being delivered.
2. To confirm impact to the business, during and after the Incident and agree number of branches
impacted and duration of Major Incident.
3. To confirm the end-to-end recovery process & timeline and identify that all documented
processes were followed.
4. To analyse the management of the Incident & the effectiveness of the governance process.
5. To identify corrective actions to:
i. prevent recurrence of Incident
ii. minimise future business impact
iii, improve management of Incidents
6. To formally close the Major Incident

Output: To confirm details provided in the draft MIR provided to POL, update with corrective actions and
redistribute. The agreed impact of Major Incident must be sent to Branch Network Service Delivery
Manager for inclusion in the Counter Availability SLT Figures.

If this review highlights areas where improvements can be made, an agreed Service Improvement Plan
will be produced with appropriate actions, owners and timescales. Service Management will track all
actions to resolution. Third party actions will be reviewed at Service Review meetings.

__IRRELEVANT. under Service Support

Templ

It is critical that the number of branches impacted and the duration of the Major Incident is agreed at the
Major Incident Review and this agreement must come from POL. If for some reason POL is not present
at the Major Incident Review meeting, a separate conversation must take place. This information is
required because Major Incidents affect Counter Availability and Liquidated Damages (LDs) are paid on
Counter Availability as detailed in 7.1 below.

7.1 Calculating Liquidated Damages payable on Major
Incidents.

Liquidated damages are payable on Major Incidents which qualify as Failure Events as detailed in the
Branch Network Service Description (SVM/SDM/SD0011). Failure Event is defined in this document as
an event or series of connected events which causes one or more Counter Positions to be deemed to be
Unavailable due to a Network Wide Failure or a Local Failure. Ongoing failures will be deemed to be part
of such Failure Event until the Failure Event is closed in accordance with the Incident closure and Major
Incident Review process as detailed in section 7.0.

For a Failure Event the Incident Closure & Major Incident Review Process will require Post Office and
Fujitsu Services to agree the number of Branches and Counter Positions affected and the duration of the
outage;

The duration of the Incident must be agreed with Post Office & rounded to the nearest 30 minutes as
detailed in the Network Wide Rounding Table below

Network Wide Rounding Table

Duration of Incident Deemed duration for the
purposes of LD
calculations
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30 minutes or less 30 minutes

More than 30 minutes I 1 hour
but less than 1 hour

1 hour or more but less I 1 hour
than 1 hour 30 minutes

1 hour 30 minutes or I 2 hours
more but less than 2
hours

N hours or more but I N hours
less than N hours 30
minutes

N hours 30 minutes or I (N+1) hours
more but less than
(N+1) hours

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8 Fujitsu. Services Roles and Responsibilities
During a Major Incident

This section defines the roles and responsibilities individuals and teams have with regard to the Major
Incident Escalation Process.

8.1. Role of the HSD IMT

The role of the Horizon Service Desk Incident Management Team (HSD IMT) in the event of a Major
Incident is two-fold

e Receive & log calls from the Post Masters, and communicate the progress of investigations to
any PMs who call into the desk.

« The HSD IMT should also send impact details (to include calls offered, abandoned, queuing) to
the Major Incident Manager, who is managing the Incident. This template should be completed
every 15 mins from the point of declaring Major Incident, until the Major Incident Manager asks
for this to cease.

8.2 Role of the Major Incident Manager

The primary role of the Major Incident Manager in a Major Incident is to facilitate the management of the
Incident, through investigation and diagnosis to resolution, with the aim of making the process as
efficient & effective as possible. The Major Incident Manager acts as the central point for
communication and non-technical information flow, allowing the Recovery Manager to focus on the
technical & the resolution of the Incident. The Major Incident Manager is also responsible for creating
and maintaining all the associated documentation.

The Major Incident Manager:
e Has responsibility for creating the Major Incident Report
« Manages the communication, internally within RMG BU.
e Communicates progress of Incident with POL SD

e Identifies Business & Service impact, though discussions with the users, POL SD & HSD IMT —
providing this input into the Tech Bridge.

e Calls & chairs the Tech Bridge
e Distributes the Tech Bridge minutes provided by TRM (if appropriate).
e Liaises with SSC to update the Service Portal

Following resolution of the Incident the Major Incident Manager schedules and chairs the Major Incident Review
and creates the Major Incident Report Document.

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8.3 Role of the Problem Manager
The problem manager ensures that corrective actions/ investigations are tracked and completed
following the major incident.

Any corrective actions arising from the Major Incident Review will be added to the corrective actions log
and tracked through to completion. The updates will be distributed to POL as required, and in the case of
a Security Major Incident associated with PCI failures, then the POL Security team will receive a copy of
the report.

8.4 Role of the Technical Recovery Manager

The primary functions of the Technical Recovery Manager is to act as Recovery Manager co-ordinating
and managing the restoration of Service, managing the technical teams and acting as the
communication point for the technical teams and 3” parties.

The Technical Recovery Manager:
« Manages the technical recovery of the Incident — liaising with SDUs & Third Parties.

e Provides updates on the recovery, when technicians / representatives of technical teams are
unable to attend the Tech Bridge.

« Provides the MIM with tech bridge summary minutes
«Is the only person to liaise directly with the technical teams, including technical third parties.
e Provides summarised minutes from Tech Bridge to MIM including:

o Current status including impact and risk

o Planned recovery activities including timelines

o Root Cause Analysis, corrective actions, and their corresponding action owners and
timelines (where known)

The TRM will be responsible for attending any meetings and providing appropriate root cause analysis
and corrective action detail.

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8.5 Role of the SDUs: Technical Teams / Third Parties

The role is to investigate the Incident, and in the event of no pre-determined recovery options, suggest
and evaluation of potential recovery options to resolve the Incident.

The technical teams should not be contacted by any party other than the Technical Recovery Manager.

The Technical Teams / Third Parties should send an attendee to the Tech Bridge and the associated
Major Incident Review meeting. Where attendance on the Tech Bridge is not possible, a full update
MUST be provided to the TRM to ensure that the Bridge can be updated.

8.6 Role of the Service Delivery Manager Who Owns the
Affected Service

« Attends Post MI review

e Responsible for any further action proposed by the problem manager that falls outside of the MI
closure criteria.

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9 Post Office / Fujitsu Services Interfaces

The Post Office / Fujitsu Services interfaces are all detailed in the Process Description, section 5.1,
however for ease the interfaces have been extracted into the table below.

POL SD & POL management stakeholders updated — updated within 15 minutes of the major incident
and after this as per agreed timeline.

Draft MIR (timelines) provided — provided by the Major Incident Manager within one working day

MIR (timelines, root cause analysis, corrective actions) provided - provided by the Major Incident
Manager within one working week

Service Bridge invitation — when MI has been unresolved for greater than an hour or it is deemed
appropriate.

As detailed under Appendix 10.3, escalation of the Major Incident will also occur; this activity running
concurrently to the interfaces detailed above.

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10 Appendices
10.1 List of Templates
ntral share. :
Ln IRRELEVANT, _I under Service Support
> Major Incident Management Templates
NAME OF I DESCRIPTION/NOTES DISTRIBUTION
TEMPLATE “ ee : : Q ae
Major Incident I The Major Incident Report contains all the information about I POL

Report Template I a Major Incident. This document is distributed to POL. RMG BU Senice Support & Service Delivery

RMG BU Head of Service Operations
RMG BU Service Director
RMG Core Service Support Teams

Major Incident I Standard format for Major Incident Review minutes. I Attendees of MIR
Review Minutes Ensures that information is collected in correct format for

inclusion in other reports / to be taken to Service Review. RMG BU Service Support & Service Delivery

RMG BU Head of Service Operations
RMG BU Service Director
RMG Core Service Support Teams

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10.2 Major Incident Manager Contact Details

* Mike Stewart —

e Mike Woolgar

10.3 Out of Hours Duty Manager Contact Details

OOH Duty Manager Pager, is to be used between the hours:
17.30 - 09.00 Monday PM to Thursday AM

17.00 - 09.00 Friday PM to Monday AM
Outside of these times, please contact the Major Incident Manager

10.4 Service Delivery Managers Contact Details

AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY I EXAMPLE INCIDENTS FSC AaTION CONTACT DETAILS BACK UP
Infrastructure issues. Network Incidents I lan Mills/Claire I { ~ Tony Atkinson
bac”! IGROI "
Data centre issues te 7
NT/ UNIX / Data Centres Storage Incidents
All network issues NT /UNIX Incidents
Banking and Online Services I Online Service outages I Mike Stewart Pager Tony Atkinson
(Inc: DVLA, Debit Card, EPAY) .
1st point of f
contact *
Mobile 3” point of contact
Banking and Online Services I Online Service outages I Mike Woolgar Pager Tony Atkinson
(Inc: DVLA, Debit Card, EPAY)
2nd point of
contact
Mobile 3° point of contact
Reference data escalations New product not Dave Wilcox Kevin Mckeown
functioning 4
APS/TPSISAPIPOLFS, LFS _IFiles Not delivered, Data] Mike Stewart Pager Saheed Salawu
Transfer
1* Point of
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Contact Mobile 3 point of contact
APS/TPSISAPIPOLFS, LFS _IFiles Not delivered, Data] Mike Woolgar Pager Saheed Salawu
Transfer
2nd point of
contact
Mobile 3 point of contact
Business Continuity Invoking business I Adam Parker Tony Atkinson
continuity incident .
Engineering Major issue with I Susie Appleby- Nominated by
engineering service Robbins Leighton Machin
OBC Escalations OBC job going wrong/ I lan Venables Chris Bourne
press involved /unhappyI
postmaster
Major software problem —_I Major software problem} Steve Parker
HSD/ PostShops Major TFS call logging I Sandie Bothick
issues. Major PostShop
outage
Security Security Issues I Tom Lillywhite
Virus Alerts
Release Management / Service I _ Issues caused by Sarah Bull Gaeten Van Achte
Introduction Releases ~ ,
smc Monitoring/ eventing of I Saheed Salawu Tony Atkinson
data centre environment}
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10.5 Escalation Communication Protocol
The primary principle:

Up”
and
“Across

Example:
MIM would escalate up to RMG BU Lead SDM, Service Operations and across to PO SD.

10.6 Major Business Continuity Incidents (MBCI)

For Horizon the MBCI triggers are listed in:
e Horizon Services Business Continuity Plan (CS/PLA/079)
e Horizon Support Services Business Continuity Plan (CS/PLA/080)
e Horizon Service Desk Business Continuity Plan (CS/PLA/015).
For HNG-X the MBCI triggers are listed in:
« HNG-X Support Services Business Continuity Plan (SVM/SDM/PLA/0001)
e HNG-X Services Business Continuity Plan (SVM/SDM/PLA/0002)
« HNG-X Security Business Continuity Plan (SVM/SDM/PLA/0031)
« HNG-X Engineering Service Business Continuity Plan (SVM/SDM/PLA/0030).

These documents should be referred to as appropriate in the event of Major Incident to determine if

Business Continuity needs to be invoked.

10.7 Security Major Incidents

In the event of a security major incident, the incident processes as detailed in the RMG BU Customer

Services Incident Management Process (SVM/SDM/PRO/0018 Appendix A) must also be followed.

SVM/SDM/PLA/0031 HNG-X Security Business Continuity Plan defines the actions to be taken if security

violations are identified.

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