Army Headquarters IAS - ISM Developer (ARMYHQ2/00193)

Tender description

Who Speclialist Work With The Specialist Company will be required to work with the Authority and other Suppliers to ensure coherent delivery of the services. The Specialist Company must have the necessary office facilities to support their own off-site working. It is anticipated that the Specialist Company will agree with the Authority to spend varying degrees of time located at the Authority’s site for face-to-face meetings and to carry out work of a security sensitive nature. What Specialists Work On Produce proposed design solutions for enhancements to the suite of ASP.Net applications. Formulate estimates and provide development expertise for new, and enhancements to existing, requirements for the suite of ASP.Net applications, based on the prioritised business requirements from the Product Owner. Provide ad hoc support to troubleshoot problems with ASP.Net applications in the live environments. Support the Continuous Integration and release management procesess for the ASP.Net applications. Where the Work Takes Place The place of delivery of the contract shall be at such location as agreed between the Specialist Company and the Authority. Early Market Engagement N/A Working Arrangements The Specialist company shall use its own initiative as to the manner in which services are to be delivered; for the avoidance of doubt, the Specialist Company shall not be supervised, directed or controlled regarding how the services are delivered. The Specialist Company shall use its own equipment where security requirements permit. The Specialist Company is expected to provide the services on such hours/days as required to meet any deadlines, as agreed between the Specialist Company and the Authority. The Specialist Company shall provide the necessary resources to support the Services which shall include one or more specialists Work Location The place of delivery of the contract shall be at such location as agreed between the Specialist Company and the Authority. Security Clearance Security Clearance (SC) will be required for the duration of the role. Incumbents are to follow both the letter and spirit of Army Headquarters security regulations. Additional T&Cs These MOD DEFCONs form part of this Call Off Contract: 5J (Edn 18/11/16) Unique Identifiers 76 (Edn 12/06) Contractors on site 129J (Edn 18/11/16) Electronic business Delivery Form 516 (Edn 04/12) Equality 520 (Edn 18/11/16) Corrupt gifts and payments of commission 522 (Edn 18/11/16) Payment and Recovery of Sums Due 531 (Edn 11/14) Disclosure of Information 534 (Edn 18/11/16) Subcontracting and Prompt Payment 566 (Edn 07/14) Change of control contractor 642 (Edn 06/14) Progress meetings The following DEFFORMS will be used: 111 Appendix - Addresses And Other Information 10 Acceptance Of Offer Of Contract Skills & Experience 5+ VB/ C#/ ASP.Net with Visual Studio 2012, 2013 & 2015 incl ASP.Net WebForms & MVC 5 // Web Services / AJAX / State Management / Web Farm Deployment). 5+ yrs experience in building Secure Web Applications including knowledge of how to mitigate common risks listed by OWASP 5+ yrs experience and demonstrable ability in Net Framework Versions (2.0, 3.0, 3.5 and 4.5). 5+ yrs experience and demonstrable ability with .Net entity framework 3.5, 5 and 6. 5+ yrs experience and demonstrable ability in Dev Express ASP .NET suite. 5+ yrs experience and demonstrable ability in SQL Server 2008/20112/2014/2016 (Database Design / Normalisation / Indexing / Stored Procedures / T-SQL / Full Text Search/ Audit CDC/ Temporal Tables). 5+ yrs experience and demonstrable ability in SQL Server 2008 &2012 Reporting Services (including Report Builder v1). 5+ yrs experience and demonstrable ability in SQL Server 2008 &2012 Integration Services 4+ yrs, experience and demonstrable ability in building deployment packages using Windows Installer XML (WIX);and building ASP.Net web applications with SpreadSheet Gear excel integration component. Experience and demonstrable ability in building deployment packages using IIS WebDeploy 3+ yrs experience and demonstrable ability with authentication and authorisation of web application and web services using federated identity and claims based authentication. 3+ experience and demonstrable ability building OData web services using ASP.Net Web API and WCF Data Services & building applications with Korzh EasyQuery components. 3+ yrs experience and demonstrable ability in building Single Page Applications using Durandal, Breeze, and Knockout. 3+ yrs, experience and demonstrable ability with UI frameworks such as JQuery UI and Kendo Web UI. Proven experience of the of TFS across the full application lifecycle including Agile planning, Build, Test and Release Management Experience with managing source control with Git/ TFS Git Knowledge, experience and demonstrable ability with javascript and typescript. An understanding of analysis / requirements capture using tools such as Enterprise Architect and Balsamiq Nice to Haves Knowledge, experience and demonstrable ability in test driven development (NUnit, XUnit Selenium and SpecFlow). Knowledge, experience and demonstrable ability in DNS / Kerberos / SETSPN / Trusted Sub System Model. Knowledge and experience in with continuous integration servers such as Jenkins/Hudson Experience of building web applications with ASP.Net SignalR Experience of using Unity IoC Experience of using ASP.Net bundling and minification. Experience of building ASP.Net applications with AppFabric Cache Experience of building ASP.Net applications with Service Bus 1.1 Experience with FluentMigrator Knowledge, experience and demonstrable ability in IIS 6,7 & 8 Application Pools / Web Farm. Design and configure a Content Security Policy with Asp.Net web applications Interpersonal and communication skills sufficient to explain Microsoft .NET ideas and concept to non-technical managers. Experience of preparing detailed development estimates; the capacity to work to deadlines, and to inform non-technical management of progress. No. of Specialists to Evaluate 3 Cultural Fit Criteria Work as a team within our organisation and other suppliers. Transparent & collaborative when making decisions. Has a no-blame culture and encourages people to learn from their mistakes. Previous experience of working within a Defence environment No commercial allegiance to any technology vendor Assessment Method Evaluation Weighting Technical competence 75% Cultural fit 5% Price 20% Questions from Suppliers Budget range £482.65