Internet Connection Record 2

Tender description

Why the Work is Being Done The NCA is developing requirements for the Internet Connection Record National Service to be delivered by Home Office. The ability to require Telecommunications Operators (TOs) to retain limited information about a person’s / device’s internet activity came about as a result of passage of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016. As part of developing those requirements and enhancing our understanding of associated risk, issues and dependencies, it is proposed to run a limited ‘live trial’ of ICR capability over a six month period from August 2019, with one or more UK TOs. This trial will run from the NCA. Problem to Be Solved In order to support the trial above the IDU requires a network appliance integration and bespoke software development service. The trial will prove the technical achievability, and operational value of ICRs. The service is required to configure Gigamon collection capability, identical to that which will be used within the TO engaged in the trial, in order to allow work on trial data manipulation in advance of the trial starting. This individual will also be responsible for designing and configuring the data flow and enrichment requirements for the trial including enabling the disclosed data to be ‘categorised’ from external datasets. . Who Are the Users The recipients of the outputs of this work will be the project team for the trial activities. Early Market Engagement Enquiries have indicated that the required resource is available from companies on the DOS3 Framework.. Work Already Done Significant work has already been invested in ICR service provision by a joint Home Office and NCA team and from which this Live Trial has been developed. Existing Team IDU CCIC staff will support the trial. Current Phase Discovery Work Location IDU CCIC, Spring Gardens Estate, London Working Arrangments The service will be required on a call off basis up to an estimated maximum of 40 days of effort to be delivered over the course of the FY (to the end of March 2020). It is anticipated that the work will be front loaded with less support required during and after the trial. Security Clearance Minimum SC cleared with NCA Top Up. Additional T&Cs Additional terms will be sent out shortlisted suppliers. These will include FOIA terms as the NCA is not subject to FOI requests. Security terms to include Security aspects letter, information security. Shortlisted suppliers will be required to utilise Bravo during the assement stage. At this stage you will need to create an account on the Bravosolutions E-Sourcing portal. Skills & Experience Experience with Gigamon network monitoring equipment integration and configuration - 30 Points Experience of building and integrating network logging solutions - 15 Points Experience of network data enrichment using reference data sets and other source data - 25 Points Ability to assist with pre-release and release processes including final testing, correction and documentation preparation - 5 Points Strong understanding of JIRA and Confluence - 5 Points Experience with Elasticsearch / Kibana - 5 Points Experience of configuring log analysis applications and databases - 20 Points Knowledge and experience of working with UK Law Enforcement (specifically prior experience with the NCA) - 20 Points Nice to Haves Solution Architecture - 5 Points Ability to write structured, maintainable, commercial quality code to a consistent predefined standard - 5 Points Familiarity with communications data and targeted intercept - 20 Points No. of Suppliers to Evaluate 4 Proposal Criteria The proposed approach and methodology - 5 Points Other relevant skills and experience which may be of benefit to operational activities - 5 Points Cultural Fit Criteria Working closely with a range of government employees and other consultancies and specialists. Ideally demonstrating having worked successfully in a rainbow team such as this on prior engagements - 5 Willingness to be flexible to accommodate the needs of the organisation - 5 Points Payment Approach Time and materials Assessment Method Written proposal Case study Work history Evaluation Weighting Technical competence 75% Cultural fit 5% Price 20% Questions from Suppliers Budget range