Themis Data Transformation, Migration and Management Information

Tender description

Why the Work is Being Done The Home Office is seeking to replace an intelligence capability that is vital to the UK Law Enforcement Community. The legacy solution used for the management, storage and analysis of intelligence is a large monolithic application. The replacement capability will be developed within a modular framework based on a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) that provides greater speed of change and reduced operating cost. Problem to Be Solved The Authority is seeking either an individual supplier or consortium that can use evolutionary development techniques to deliver subsystems and provide capability to support data profiling, migration and transformation using system APIs. The activity also includes development of marts and initial reports for business MI to enable a transition to self service operation. Migration is an essential part of the ongoing development process and needs to be performed incrementally and repeatably on a combination of synthetic and live data across different environments. Who Are the Users The primary users of the THEMIS system overall will be from Law Enforcement and will include operational users (such as intelligence officers and operations managers) and business users (e.g. system administrator or inspectors). Some indicative examples of user needs for the Management Information component might include: - As an Inspector, I need to view a report showing the number of legal authorisations of a particular type that have been granted within a time window. - As an Operations Manager, I need to view the workload of my staff so that I can understand how to adjust the allocation of work. Early Market Engagement Work Already Done The Design and Architecture team have performed a significant amount of user engagement across all stakeholder organisation to define the user requirements. These have been captured as a business capability map, key capability concepts, user stories (capturing functional requirements), user journeys, scenarios, and user personas. These requirements have been used to develop an initial Themis architecture model that articulates the key elements of the Themis system as well as some key architecture principles informed by a proof of concept. Existing Team The Authority is supported by a Design & Architecture function which includes: - A product owner; - A business analysis team; - An architecture team. The remainder of the team will be procured to build the Themis solution as follows: - Lot 1: Framework and DevOps pipeline (supplier chosen) - Lot 2: Operations and Intelligence Management (procurement in process) - Lot 3: Process and Oversight (procurement in Q3 2019) - Lot 4: Analysis and Nominals (procurement in Q3 2019) - Lot 5: Data Transformation, Migration and MI (this lot) - Lot 6: UI Framework (procurement in process) Current Phase Discovery Work Location It is anticipated that development activities will be conducted from the suppliers own location. Some non-development members of the suppliers team will be required to work from locations in proximity to the Home Office (2 Marsham Street) in London on a regular basis for coordination activities. Work may be required at other locations nationally from time to time. Working Arrangments Suppliers are required to participate in collaborative planning and delivery involving the wider Themis supply chain for each programme increment using a tailored SAFe approach. This will require some members of the team to work in proximity to the Home Office (2 Marsham Street) in London on a regular basis, and some development activities will be conducted from the suppliers own location. For data migration it will be necessary to undertake some work at customer sites across the UK due to the protective marking of the material. Security Clearance SC level clearance is required as a minimum for staff working under this contract or any subcontracts. The supplier must have a location and technology to support development up to and including Official Sensitive. Additional T&Cs 1. Unless agreed, Home Office will retain ownership of the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) created during the contract. 2. Travel and Expenses will not be paid within the M25. 3. Key Supplier staff included in proposals will be expected to work on the contract. 4. Home Office reserves the right to agree fixed price Statements of Work when it is deemed prudent; the Supplier shall not unreasonably withhold its agreement to such requests made by the Home Office. 5. Sub-contracting is permitted. Skills & Experience Demonstrate experience in data transformation and enrichment. Demonstrate experience in performing automated and repeatable data migration. Demonstrate experience in delivering MI marts. Demonstrate experience of incremental delivery within a SOA/microservice-based architecture. Demonstrate understanding of entity, intelligence and authorisations data within the Law Enforcement or Intelligence domain. Demonstrate experience in the complete evolutionary software development lifecycle including testing and deployment. Demonstrate experience of working in an Official Sensitive environment. Have a suitable location and technology to support Software Development at Official Sensitive. Nice to Haves Demonstrate experience of delivering within a scaled version of agile e.g. SAFe. Provide evidence of successful collaborative delivery of an integrated solution where there were dependencies on other supplier teams. Demonstrate experience in software development using Open Source and relevant COTS technologies. Demonstrate expertise in complex IHMs (Information Handling Mod Provide evidence of recent successful delivery of technology into the Law Enforcement or Intelligence domains. Demonstrate experience of performing data migration by consuming APIs. No. of Suppliers to Evaluate 5 Proposal Criteria Approach and Methodology Value for Money Risk Team Structure and Composition Cultural Fit Criteria Work as a Team No-Blame Culture Knowledge Sharing Collaboration Payment Approach Time and materials Assessment Method Written proposal Case study Work history Presentation Evaluation Weighting Technical competence 57% Cultural fit 13% Price 30% Questions from Suppliers Budget range £1m - £3m