BDC - ESB Agile - Digital Outcomes

Tender description

Summary of the work To supply trained resources in ESB Agile to suppliment internal Council resources for up 70 days lasting until March 18. Expected Contract Length one year - March 2018 Latest start date 20th March 2017 Budget Range Fixed price to deliver 70 days @ 8 hours per day over the course of the contract Why the Work is Being Done Work in currently required to suppliment the Council's techical skills in the ESB Agile system. This application builds applications to enable the Council to deloiver full digital by default. The Council has a finite amount of resources and specific work packages are required to be under taken to suppliment the agile building of digital transactions. Problem to Be Solved Customers must be able not only to access their data online but services must be delivered on-line and digital by default. Who Are the Users As a customer I need to access my details online; request services and for those services to be provided with recourse to any human intervention so that i an get whant i want when i want it Work Already Done The Council already has several digital by default transations using Agile ESB, it wishes now to suppliment them. Existing Team The Council already has a team delivering digital transations, the extra resourse will compliment it. Current Phase Live Skills & Experience Have indepth and professional ESB Agile experience and must have delivered in the past using this application solution Work Location The supplier will be expected to work part of the time at Worksop, with the remaining done remote Working Arrangments The resource must work within the existing team, because of the dependancies whn developing digital by default transactions. No. of Suppliers to Evaluate 3 Proposal Criteria • Techical solution • Value for money Cultural Fit Criteria Must be fully conversant with digital by default Payment Approach Fixed price Evaluation Weighting Technical competence 75% Cultural fit 5% Price 20% Questions from Suppliers 1. How many contractors do you need and of what specialties, please? What model of ESB Agile are you using? The work will be undertaken as work packages. (for a number of days.) There is no model assigned to ESB Agile, rather it is an application which is currently at release 16.9 2. Please can you confirm the resource you need for this project, we are assuming it's Scrum Masters? Thr resource will be required to use the ESB agile application to built on which is currently at 16.9 3. So you are seeking consultants for Meritech's bespoke "ESB Agile" application? Can't these only be sourced from Meritech themselves? The Council welcomes tenders from anybody who wishes to place a proposal. The council understands that esb agile is widely supplied to organisations in Different forms. The council refers suppliers to Pentagull who is the application owner. 4. Is "ESB Agile" an open source application? If not, what was the rational behind choosing a closed source product which locks you in to a single vendor (ESB Agile limited - itself a partnership between Meritech and Pentagull)? The application is community based whereby all users may share each other developed processes within the builder digital platform. Indeed the Council has been very successful in not only sharing thier developed processes but also aquiring process from others so not to re-invent and spend wasted time. For the purposes of this requirement there are no processes or plug-ins which are available to the Council from that Community, therefore technical resources are require to enable these and they will inturn be fed into the wider community and user base.