The One McConnell Intranet is complete and in daily use. Training and microsites are in UAT. Find it Win it is a deep working demo, ready to prove. The Utopia planner is built and heading for UAT. This programme takes all of it - plus the full Utopia platform - to complete, adopted and running as one system: Dan building, Katie managing the programme and everyone's way into it.
Over the past months McConnell has commissioned a set of applications one at a time: the intranet, training, project microsites, bids, and now the Utopia planner. All of it exists as working software today: one system complete and in service, two in UAT, a bid engine built and ready to prove, and the planner heading for UAT. What the estate has not had is what Beth's One McConnell picture asks for: one sign-in, one plan, one front door, and someone whose job is to run it all properly. That is what this programme buys. Not new licences and not a restart - everything finished, integrated, adopted by the people it was built for, with a managed service wrapped around it.
Everything below is already built and running on McConnell's own Cloudflare and AWS accounts in the UK, signed into with your normal Microsoft accounts. Shown honestly, stage by stage - because the programme's whole job is to take every one of them to complete, adopted, and running as one system.
Built, delivered and in daily use across the business. Ongoing enhancements are currently quoted piece by piece - inside this programme they are simply included.
Your Microsoft 365 tenantThe matrix, certificates, bookings and weekly HR sync, in UAT now with tweaks landing as they surface. And the scope has grown: a per-employee portal and McConnell-authored course delivery (LMS) are part of this programme.
mcconnell-training.pages.devResident community sites with updates, email notifications and unsubscribe, in UAT. The programme closes UAT out and cuts production over onto the McConnell projects domain.
mcconnell-projectmicrosites.pages.devA working demo with serious depth behind it: a tender radar, drafting with citations from 17,000 of McConnell's own bid documents, scoring and Word export. Completion and bid-team rollout sit inside this programme - the walkthrough is being scheduled now.
mcconnell-finditwinit.pages.devYour Utopia model and all ten working-group action plans, live in the planner with owners, dates and a cited assistant. Heading for UAT - and the full platform grows through the pipeline below.
mcconnell-utopiapm.pages.devThe Utopia document you shared draws one integrated platform: a project questionnaire that generates a real project plan, and one place where documents, safety, quality and training meet. That is exactly what this programme delivers - and because the pieces already exist and work, six months is enough.
And the assistant you met in the Utopia planner extends across the estate - grounded only in McConnell's own data, running on McConnell's own AWS, in the UK.
Months 1 to 3 complete development across the estate - by the end of month 3 every deliverable is built and demonstrated. Months 4 to 6 are structured UAT, rollout and tuning: pilot groups first, then everyone, with the final month for polish, documentation and handover. UAT is where we finalise and tweak, with your people using the real thing.
The fee is the same every month, and the programme can be paused at any month end. The detail of each month is below.
Utopia is not one feature. It is your ten working groups - Safety Controls, Procedures, Systems, Training, Programme Trackers, Customer Care, Commercials, KPI's, Dashboards and General - becoming one platform. Here is the full set from your workbook, your Utopia document and our calls: where each piece stands, and where the programme takes it.
You are not paying for a bench of consultants. You are paying for the person who built every application in this estate, and a certified programme manager whose job is to make the whole thing run like clockwork - and to be the one person you contact about any of it.
A programme this size fails when everything is urgent and nothing is planned. So the engagement runs on a simple service rhythm, managed by Katie under ITIL 4 practice. You always know what is happening, what is next, and where your request sits.
A 45 minute demonstration of working software every two weeks. Progress you can see, not status you have to take on trust.
One hour with Simon and Beth: progress, decisions, the backlog and the month ahead. The programme's single decision point.
Every request goes to Katie through one channel. Nothing gets lost in inboxes, and nothing depends on catching anyone at their desk.
Every request is acknowledged by the next business day, triaged, and planned into the programme - visibly.
Delivery is remote, with on-site sessions planned in advance where they earn their place: UAT workshops and training days.
Meetings are booked in advance and work is planned into phases. Anything live and broken jumps the queue; everything else joins the plan rather than interrupting it.
That is how new ideas get in without a change-order fight, and how the programme stays on its fixed fee.
Hosting stays on McConnell's own Cloudflare and AWS accounts at their usual low running cost, and AI usage runs under the monthly spending ceilings already in place. Nothing in this programme creates a per-seat licence.