Home Office Border Client Side Architecture

Tender description

Why the Work is Being Done The Home Office Border Systems Portfolio has a requirement for the procurement of a service to deliver Service, Solution and Technical Architecture Service capabilities. Problem to Be Solved A Service, Solution and Technical architecture service is required to deliver across the main domains of business, data, application and infrastructure. The Home Office is seeking capability across multi disciplines areas within the departments and programmes. Focussing on both technical architecture/design and also assurance of suppliers’ designs against requirements, industry best practice and HMG/HO strategy and standards; may include design artefact production for specific problem areas. Interpretation of requirements, ensuring the relevant programme provides a secure and value for money solution, meeting current needs and planning future growth and throughput, achieving HMG IA system accreditation marked OFFICIAL and above. Who Are the Users Border Force is a law enforcement command within the Home Office. We secure the UK border by carrying out immigration and customs controls for people and goods entering the UK. We Edit are responsible for: •checking the immigration status of people arriving in and departing the UK •searching baggage, vehicles and cargo for illicit goods or illegal immigrants •patrolling the UK coastline and searching vessels •gathering intelligence •alerting the police and security services to people of interest. The Supplier is tasked with transitioning the existing service to a disaggregated services model. Services required across the various service "Towers". Early Market Engagement None Work Already Done These Services have previously been procured via GCloud. Existing Team There is an existing team in place working within the Programme. The new supplier will need to work collaboratively within the Programme and other suppliers. Currently there are a number of Technical Architects deployed under various programmes. As and when there is a need for these services, a statement of works detailing outcomes and deliverables shall be execute. Current Phase Not applicable Work Location Metro Point, Croydon and Marsham Street, London, as well as other Home Office locations on request. Working Arrangments The Architects need to be able to operate within a hub and spoke governance model and with other 3rd parties if required. The team is expected to work across the multiple sites, the main site is expected to be Croydon and be available during standard HO working hours. Expenses will conform to HO internal policies and will not be payable within the M25. Security Clearance Service Provider personnel need to be compliant with Security Clearance as a minimum if working in Home Office buildings. Depending on the nature of the role, if escalated and/or privileged access is necessary then there may be a requirement and in certain circumstances, DV clearance. Additional T&Cs Skills & Experience Are you able to provide resources with 5 years experience and deep technical expertise across a broad spectrum of architecture disciplines: Enterprise, application, integration, information, infrastructure, data, business and service. Provide demonstrable experience of technical governance within projects delivered to the GDS service standards and production of appropriate artifacts as projects move through discovery, alpha, beta and into live service. Provide evidence of resources capable of shaping and leading the overall enterprise architecture for HO DDaT portfolios, programmes and projects using open standards (such as TOGAF) Provide evidence of resources capable of developing, implementing and maintaining an architecture roadmap and the supporting implementation plan. Provide evidence of resources capable of architecting modern SOA and microservices architecture, with structured thinking around technical recommendations and presenting to a senior audience. Provide evidence of resource capable of architecting solutions within a large scale transactional and analytical data environment, utilising RDBMS and nosql technology. Please provide evidence of teams of up to 10 people comprising of Enterprise Architects, Business, Data, Application, Integration, Information, Infrastructure and Service Architects can be deployed. Nice to Haves Provide evidence of resources with experience of architecting, securing and sustaining enterprise solutions for on premise and large scale/hyperscale cloud providers. Provide evidence of applying TOGAF and using Enterprise Architects tooling such as Sparx EA. Provide evidence of innovations to previous engagements and projects. Provide evidence of bringing thought leadership to the wider community e.g. technical papers, conference talks or on social media. Provide a detailed understanding of detection services and related services. Demonstrate experience of working successfully in complex public sector organisations. Demonstrate success in the delivery of core infrastructure and/or distributed IT systems/programmes within the last 12 months. Demonstrate experience of of transitioning services from physical infrastructure to cloud. Proven track record of in a multi-supplier environment of bringing organisations together to deliver a shared objective. No. of Suppliers to Evaluate 5 Proposal Criteria All essential and nice to have requirements will be evaluated further as part of the overall proposal criteria below. Evaluation criteria have 8 categories: Specific Competencies 35%, Plan for initial phase 15%, Risk Management 15%, Ability to scale capability 10%, Performance Management 10%, Methodology 5%, Policy 5%, Security 5%. Specific Competencies: Includes all essential and nice to have technology criteria. Specific Competencies: Domain knowledge of business requirements and issues. Specific Competencies: Ability to transfer to Business as Usual. Security: Compliance with people security requirements. Methodology: Agile - Government Digital Service. Policy: Cloud - Open Source - IPR and Licensing - Technology Code of Practice Delivery Plan: Quality of delivery plan for first phase of engagement and statement of work. Scale Capability: Capability of increasing delivery or service capability in the medium to long term. Performance: Delivery and Service management reliability and repeatability - Client reporting and Quality management. Risk Management: Approach of delivering scope and scale of requirements to the overall contract scope and project plan over contract life. Cultural Fit Criteria Cultural Fit: Stakeholder Management - One Team approach - Development of Client capability - People Development - Innovation and Value for Money. Payment Approach Capped time and materials Assessment Method Written proposal Evaluation Weighting Technical competence 65% Cultural fit 5% Price 30% Questions from Suppliers Budget range £4 million to £5 million