Technical Support and Development of the StanMIS Application

Tender description

UK Defence Standardization (DStan) has developed a Through Life Standardization Management Toolset “StanMIS” to enable the implementation of processes described in JSP 920 “Standardization Management Policy”. StanMIS is a .NET web application incorporating tools to conduct and manage a number of Standardization Management (SM) processes to meet UK MOD capability, including: • Standardization Management Plan (SMP) tool • Standards Requirement Verification (SRV) tool • Interactive Defence Standard (Def Stan) drafting template • Standards portfolio management • Decision Support Tool to enable intelligent standards selection • Ratification tool for the approval of NATO Standardization Agreements (STANAGs) • Watchlist tool for monitoring standards configuration data • Custom filtering and reporting tools StanMIS is hosted on the MOD Intranet at http://mou.isg-r.r.mil.uk/StanMIS/ and there is a “cut-down” internet version which will be hosted as part of the DStan website at https://www.dstan.mod.uk/. There is a requirement to further develop the toolset to meet new and changing requirements in SM and to refine existing processes. The management, searching and selection of historic (i.e. up-issued, withdrawn or superseded) needs to be incorporated for projects supporting legacy equipment and where project requirements cross multiple editions of the same standard. Additionally, a tool is required to enable UK Defence Standardization to better meet its legal deposit requirements and to support licencing agreements with third party suppliers of standards. Further improvements to existing processes are listed below. Scope of Work to be managed The following additional features shall be added to the toolset: • A Defence Standards Portfolio Archive Management Tool. • A Legal Deposit Management Tool. • Improved Defence Standard drafting template and associated processes. • Through life assurance process for SMPs. • Improvements to report building and information sharing. • Improved management of Operational Datasets in SMPs. • Improvements to administration tools.