QA & Core Systems ADM Partner

Tender description

Contract Award Notice for QA & Core Application Development and Services, awarded through the CCS Framework Agreement - Digital Outcomes and Specialists (RM1043iv). The scope of services within this Call-Off Contract includes but is not limited to: For the provision of Application Development and Maintenance Services and Quality Assurances capabilities as a managed service to support and accelerate the delivery of specific programme outcomes within Buyer's core systems and potentially digital systems. Services and outcome requirements include, but is not limited to: * Core Application Development and Maintenance (ADM) Services (including DevOps, testing, project management and QA); * Demand management, resource management, planning, change management, delivery performance management, quality management, account management, knowledge transfer, and governance services; * Full service operation - E2E application delivery and management (incl. design, test and architecture services); * Transition Services; * Elicitation and informing strategic options, solution design, solution architecture; * Programme, project / delivery management, and quality management services; * Legacy Migration and Remediation Services; * Data Services including data management, data integration, data modeling, data architecture, data integrity, database management, data mining, big data; * Platform Services including multi-platform, multi-operating system, multi-database environments (including open source, Cloud, on-premise, noSQL etc.); * Solution Integration Services including service design, service management, service integration, end user support, training, end-user provisioning, solution integration, service tooling, and security tooling; * Inbound and Outbound communications technologies (including scanning, workflow, electronic correspondence, document storage, document formatting); * Drive forward existing complex architectures, balancing competing demands of challenging delivery, with effective management of technical debt, and achieving key strategic objectives; * Work on systems heavily integrated into a complex legacy estate, involving heterogeneous platforms and different delivery methodologies; * Build complex micro service, service orientated and event based architectures; * Operate at scale and effectively prioritise and manage significant backlogs of work across a number of Agile delivery teams, including knowledge sharing/transfer; * Operate in a DevOps culture to deliver effective continuous integration, continuous delivery, nfrastructure automation, test automation and application monitoring leading to tangible business benefits.