HMCTS CJSCP Agile Back End Development Services

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Why the Work is Being Done CJSCPP is a change programme to enable the CJS and agencies be more efficient and deliver a better service. For the first time, criminal case information will be kept together in one place. The CJSCPP is part of a wider portfolio of change being delivered by HMCTS under the HMCTS Reform Programme, affecting services in all jurisdictions. Problem to Be Solved Current CJS services are typically supported by paper and hard-media based processes which are expensive, subject to frequent delay and often baffling to citizens without legal training. The CJSCPP is designed to develop efficient, proportionate and accessible digital services delivering access to justice via appropriate modern channels. The MoJ is building the Common Platform which is a micro-services based architecture based on the JEE framework. The platform will provide service to CJS at all stages of the criminal justice process. This includes from arrest by police to canvassing opinion from the Crown Prosecution Service(CPS) through to the courts (both Magistrates&Crown). Who Are the Users 1) As a citizen, view and track my case and plea online, be alerted to changes and for the case to proceed efficiently. 2) As a prosecutor, understand case evidence to ascertain likelihood of a successful prosecution. 3) As a defence practitioner, understand the evidence of a case to best advise my client. 4) As a HMCTS admin, manage the delivery of justice services so the process is delivered efficiently. 5) As a member of judiciary, access all relevant information so that I can make a judgement 6) As a prosecuting agency, submit evidence to provide HMCTS with relevant information. Early Market Engagement None Work Already Done The Crime Programme is established and has embedded the Common Platform Programme, that has been running for a number of years. We have multiple services already live on the platform. A citizen facing service in the form of online plea. A service for CPS to use for working out charges that should be presented to suspects that police arrest. Our major focus over the next few increments is to deliver the complete process through the magistrate and crown courts. Existing Team Backend developers are required to develop functional back-end micro-services using the CPspecific framework&CQRSpattern using tools like Camunda to describe business-processes&integrate with individual micro-services to provide work-management solutions.CP Backend Developers use technologies such as Java8,JEE,JMS&JPA to help build micro-services&take them to live. The programme has over 80-developers(c.50Back-end)across multiple-teams.Although,there are currently more experienced-developers as the programme matures there is increased use of more standard developers resulting in a model whereby each team includes 1Tech-lead,3Backend-Developers,1Frontend-Developer supported by Quality-Assurance,Delivery-Manager,Release-Manager,Project-Manager,Business-Analysts&Devops.The programme is keen to develop a more flexible-resourcing approach based on appropriate experience and welcomes supplier’s views on how to achieve this whilst maintaining&improving delivery-output. Current Phase Beta Work Location Primarily Southern House, Wellesley Grove Croydon CRO 1XG (the "Base location”, although some visits to other locations in London may be required.). Working Arrangments The Service is being delivered against the GDS Service Manual using a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). SoW/Work-Orders will be issued to define the development outcomes of each project phase and typically span three to six months. The supplier's team will be required to work with onsite team at the base location working a five-day week. For works performed at a non-Base location and outside London (outside of the M25), all reasonable travel and expenses costs shall be met in accordance with the rates set out in the MoJ travel and subsistence policy. All expenses will require prior approval from HMCTS. Security Clearance Baseline Personnel Security Check (BPSS) which must be dated within three months of the start date. Some roles may require SC Clearance. For further guidance see: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-baseline-personnel-security-standard Additional T&Cs Liability Insurance:minimum level of cover £5,000,000; Professional Indemnity:minimum level of cover £1,000,000 Suppliers must be able to provide resources within a 2 week notice period with the necessary skills to minimise impact on delivery. The initial Statement-of-Work(SOW) will be Time and Materials but the Buyer reserves the right,in the contract,to use alternative payment mechanisms such as Fixed-Price or Capped-T&M for future SOWs. Expenses shall be submitted in line with the MOJ Standard T&Spolicy and agreed in advance of expenditure. Suppliers shall provide transparency to the Buyer on the rates paid to resources&any third-parties in the supply-chain,as detailed in the SOW. Skills & Experience You must be able to demonstrate your ability to deliver quality code at a consistently high rate of velocity to meet demanding delivery timescales (2%) You must demonstrate your experience in supplying developers that are familiar with clean code, TDD, unit testing (Junit), Mocking strategies (Mockito, Wiremock) (2%). You must demonstrate your experience in using the JEE standards (CDI, JPA, JMS, JSON-P) to write Java web applications (2%). Provide evidence of writing and debugging complex code using Java8 (Lambdas, streams, collections, map/reduce programming, functional interfaces) (1%) You must demonstrate your experience in designing systems that use Domain Driven Design (DDD), CQRS pattern and Event Sourcing to model complex business domains (2%). You must demonstrate your experience of using Source control systems such as GitHub and Gerrit. Deep understanding of, git, branching, merging and rebasing for feature development (1%). Provide evidence of your experience of close collaboration with Quality Assurance, Devops and other disciplines involved in high quality software development and systems (1%). You must demonstrate-your-experience-in using API first development to deliver features including tools such as RAML, Swagger, APIGee and Single Page Applications frameworks such as Angular or React (1%). You must demonstrate your experience of development practices in building micro-services on cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS (1%). Explain how you have previously addressed poor performance when supplying development resources working within multi-discipline teams (1%). This contract will-have-a-staged-implementation process, 30%resources by Sept/Oct, 20%by Mid-January and 50%by Early-March. Explain how you have provided resources of a similar number in response to increased demands (2%). Nice to Haves Please explain any previous experience you have of working closely with operations on Redhat Linux systems to diagnose issues arising in Production systems (1%) Please explain any previous experience of working with multi-vendor teams on a complex programme of work (1%). Please detail any experience you have had using the Digital by Default standard (1%). No. of Suppliers to Evaluate 5 Proposal Criteria Explain how for contract-duration you will: •Provide-a-flexible-resourcing approach,including rationale behind proposal; •Retain key resources •Sustain pricing whilst retaining suitably-experienced developers within changing-market conditions. •Maintain expected team velocity (5%) Explain your overall Development-Approach,Delivery Methodology and key artefacts to enable digital teams &deliver capability within-an-agile-environment, providing examples based on the initial-SOW how these complement the CrimeProgramme’s requirements (6%). Provide named-individuals-and CV’s to-meet initial requirements demonstrating experience working in agile multi-vendor teams.If proposing an alternative,more flexible resourcing approach explain the minimum experience required for each role (5%). Explain how-you’ll meet HMCTS’ need-for high-quality,appropriately-skilled developers&your ability to flex your service in-line with-the 2-week notice period&what internal tests/processing you’ll undertake to ensure developers match our requirements (5%). Describe your-approach to transition- and provide a plan for enabling-digital teams,delivering capability and ensuring that knowledge transfer is conducted during handover of project outputs to HMCTS BAU/maintenance team (5%). Describe how-you-will measure&manage quality and speed-of delivery teams and individuals for continuous improvement throughout the contract and specifically how you would meet the supplier targets for SOW001 (5%) Please provide-three-referenceable client-focussed case studies where your company have provided the desired service capability; please identify the proposed team member(s) that were part of the delivery team (5%) Describe your-proposals-for adding value during the term of the contract, i.e. ongoing initiatives to optimise costs and generate savings, and drive value out of resources used (5%). Cultural Fit Criteria Please describe your approach for working with multi-vendor teams across multiple projects at different locations (1%). Explain how you will ensure collaboration at all levels of the project & programme delivery between users,team members and management.Give examples of where you could apply collaboration in the SOW(1%). Please explain-how-you-would maintain a no-blame culture and encourage people to learn from their mistakes; provide examples of where this has been used (2%). Explain how you will maximise the value added by co-locating with the other disciplines during the initial launch set up, mobilisation / transition period (1%). Payment Approach Time and materials Assessment Method Written proposal Case study Work history Reference Presentation Evaluation Weighting Technical competence 60% Cultural fit 5% Price 35% Questions from Suppliers Budget range target rates range: £700 - £800 for tech lead and £500 - £600 standard developer. pricing will form 35% of the overall score the and pricing submission documents will be issued to suppliers who pass round 1. each statement of work shall detail the allocated spend to that particular project. the initial statement-of-work and roadmap is available upon request. it is recommended that interested parties request this document. transparent pricing – suppliers are expected to provide transparent pricing to enable moj full visibility of charges and costs including overheads and profit-margin in an auditable form.