Digital Permission’s Delivery Team

Tender description

Summary of the work The initial requirement is to stand-up teams to deliver within the Digital Permissions Programme, focusing on (Discovery, Alpha and Beta phases) and potentially wider Border Force IT portfolio. Expected Contract Length 24 months Latest start date Thursday 21 September 2017 Budget Range £4 to 5 million Why the Work is Being Done Border Force has a requirement for a supplier to supplement existing resources to deliver discrete phases of work aligned to the Digital Permissions programme, specifically focusing on GDS Discovery, Alpha and Beta phases. Problem to Be Solved Monday 21st September 2017 Who Are the Users Users include citizen, Border Force Officers and wider government agencies to secure UK borders, and detect criminal behaviour. Work Already Done There are currently resources in place on the programme and there are some work streams that have commenced. Existing Team There is an existing team in place working within Border Force. The new supplier will need to work collaboratively with other areas of the programme and other suppliers, some of which are currently being procured. Current Phase Discovery Skills & Experience • Experience in building services to meet the Digital by Default Service Standard. • Experience of deploying multidisciplinary teams of Tech Leads, Developers, Business analysts, User researchers, Content designers, and Interaction Designers to deliver Discovery, Alpha and Beta phases to the GDS service standard • Experience of delivering the expected outcomes for the Discovery, Alpha and Beta phases. • Experience in designing services that meet both user needs and business objectives. • Demonstrate capacity and flexibility to delivery multi-disciplinary teams that can be stood up and rolled-off according to a forward schedule that is reviewed on an ongoing basis. • Demonstrate experience of capturing and handing over the outcomes to another team. • Experience in proving the benefits of a user-led approach in a deadline-driven environment Nice to Haves • Experience of taking service through the GDS Service Assessment • Experience in building citizen or staff facing digital services to secure the Border • Experience of developing digital services that interface with carriers (air, rail and maritime) • Evidence of resources that have existing SC clearance that will support the speeding up of on-boarding teams. • Evidence that technical resources have experience of: o Use and knowledge of Java 8, Scala, Spring Boot, NodeJS, HTML5/CSS, Docker and Kubernetes, SOAP, and REST. • Use and knowledge of an existing DB flavour already used in the Home Office e.g PostgreSQL, or NoSQL DBs such as MongoDB. • Use and knowledge of GitHub, GitLab, Drone, Jenkins. Work Location Lunar House and Apollo House, Croydon and Marsham Street, London, as well as other Home Office locations on request. Working Arrangments The service will be required to work to standards and practices set by GDS and the Home Office Centres of Excellence. Resources are expected to work as a discrete delivery team focussed on a specific outcome. They will be required to adopt common agile practices of daily stand-ups, end of sprint show and tells, and retrospectives. The team is expected to work on client site, 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 SC clearance, and in certain circumstances, DV clearance. Additional T&Cs Individual statements of work (SoW) will be agreed aligned to the discrete delivery phases that are requested and subject to satisfactory performance of the supplier and HO needs. This contract is non-exclusive. The intention is the provision of a service with defined outcomes where the supplier is responsible for deliverables, risk, and provision of individuals to deliver the outcome. If this was to be executed in this manner then it would probably be deemed outside the intermediaries’ legislation but could be affected by factors outside HO control. IPR in any developed technology will rest with HO. No. of Suppliers to Evaluate 5 Proposal Criteria • Identify named team members including CVs and relevant experience • Ability to mobilise the team quickly and approach to service continuity • Ability to flex up and down resources, whilst ensuring quality and consistency • Approach and methodology to meeting the requirements outlined in RFP • Approach to ensuring value for money • Demonsrate experience of GDS Service Assessment Cultural Fit Criteria • Ability to function effectively and collaborate in a multi-supplier environment • Working successfully in complex public sector organisations • Approach to proactive issue management, problem resolution and improving ways of working Payment Approach Time and materials Evaluation Weighting Technical competence 60% Cultural fit 10% Price 30% Questions from Suppliers No questions have been answered yet.