Provision of ADS Develop as a Service

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Why the Work is Being Done The ADS DaaS will provide a cost effective, flexible and scalable development service that can meet the demands of the Army’s application development ambition which is delivered by ADS. This is in order to support and deliver enhancements to the existing application services and also meet new requirements by providing specialist technical development resources. Problem to Be Solved DaaS will be responsible for the provision of outcomes consistent with the full DevSecOps cycle for the delivery of software applications. This is inclusive of, but not limited to: • Business Analysis outputs. Including Discovery and outcomes in support of Agile project teams throughout development. • Software development outputs, with particular emphasis on Oracle APEX and .Net. • Test/Quality Assurance outputs, with particular emphasis on Oracle APEX and .Net. • Scrum Masters and other Agile projects roles. IF YOU REQUIRE A COPY OF THE STATEMENT OF REQUIREMENT PLEASE E-MAIL: Toni.Prince177@mod.gov.uk To Note: The Technical Evaluation (70%) will be divided as follows: Written Proposal: - EOI - 5% - Technical - 42% - Case Studies - 6% - References - 2% - Presentations - 15% Who Are the Users As a Software House ADS needs to secure technical outcomes from specialist resource in order to continue to deliver applications and services to the Army business areas. Early Market Engagement Work Already Done Existing Team The existing DaaS teams consists of around 80 Business Analysts, Developers, Testers, Scrum Masters and Delivery Managers. These resources operate within the ADS framework which is a multi-vendor environment with enabling support provided by military personnel and crown servants. Current Phase Live Work Location Army Headquarters, Andover, SP11 8HT Working Arrangments The supplier will deliver in line with ADS direction and in accordance with the ADS operating model, policies and standards. ADS uses Azure to provide a remote development capability. Once code is ready for deployment it is brought onto ADS on-premise cloud dev/test environments, to be deployed through the DevSecOps pipeline onto the Army Hosting Environment via system integration/security testing/pre-production. Expenses are to be in accordance with MOD Statement of Business Travel Guide. Costs will not be paid to and from the normal place of work. Security Clearance All teams members will require security clearance. The minimum acceptable level is BPSS. On a case-by-case basis some resource will require SC. Additional T&Cs DEFCON 5J (Edn 18/11/16) Unique Identifiers, DEFCON 76 (Edn 12/06) Contractors on site, DEFCON 129J (Edn 18/11/16) Electronic business Delivery Form, DEFCON 513 (Edn 11/16) Value Added Tax, DEFCON 516 (Edn 04/12) Equality, DEFCON 518 (Edn 02/17) Transfer, DEFCON 531 (Edn 11/14) Disclosure of Information, DEFCON 534 (Edn 06/17) Subcontracting/Prompt Payment, DEFCON 537 (Edn 06/02) Rights of Third Parties, DEFCON 550 (Edn 02/14) Child Labour/Employment Law, DEFCON 566 (Edn 10/20) Change of control of contractor, DEFCON 642 (Edn 06/14) Progress meetings, DEFCON 658 (Edn 10/17) Cyber, DEFCON 694 (Edn 07/18) Accounting for Property of the Authority. Skills & Experience Demonstrable experience within the last 3-years of delivering multiple, concurrent and complete Agile delivery-teams comprising Scrum Masters, Testers, Developers and Business Analysts, to meet business requirements. (0.25%) Demonstrable experience of delivering services into an Agile/DevSecOps organisation. Working within SCRUM/Kanban frameworks within multi-skilled development teams capable of contributing to the team beyond development. (0.25%) Demonstrable experience within last 3 years of delivering SFIA level 5 (or higher) development resources with a minimum of 5 years’ recent experience in Oracle APEX outputs. (0.25%) Demonstrable experience of delivering SFIA level 5 (or higher) development resources with a minimum of 5 years commercial experience with Microsoft .Net and frameworks such as React. (0.25%) Demonstrable experience within last 3 years of delivering SFIA level 4 (or higher) Manual and Automated Test resources, using Selenium and Cypress based testing frameworks. (0.25%) Demonstrable experience within last 3 years of delivering SFIA level 5 (or higher) Scrum Master, Business Analyst and Delivery Manager resource. (0.25%) Demonstrable experience in SQL Server, SSRS/Power BI. (0.25%) Demonstrable experience in PL/SQL, Oracle Database 11g/12c, BI Publisher and WebLogic server, Oracle RESTful Data Services (ORDS), ApexSec Security Console. (0.25%) Demonstrable experience of providing DevSecOps expertise to build and manage applications using container technologies and application security tools. (0.25%) Demonstrable expertise in automated unit testing using tools and frameworks including utPLSQL version 3, SQL Developer, MSTest, NUnit and XUnit. (0.25%) Demonstrable experience with last 3 years of successfully integrating systems via APIs, including on-premise and other cloud-based services, including Azure and Amazon AWS. (0.25%) Demonstrable experience within last 3 years of building secure web applications that manage personal/sensitive data in-line with sector security/compliance regulations (eg, JSP 440 for the MoD sector). (0.25%) Demonstrable experience in developing RESTful web services across different technologies and securing those services via OAuth2. (0.25%) Demonstrable experience using Static Code scanning tools to diagnose security issues within applications. (0.25%) Demonstrable experience in Windows 2012 R2/2016, 2019, Red Hat Linux 6.x and 7.x operating systems. (0.25%) Demonstrable experience of developing and supporting the release applications using ALM tooling including technologies such as Git, TeamCity 9.x., Confluence, Ansible, JIRA and TFS/Azure DevOps. (0.25%) Demonstrable experience of using Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) using tools such as Cucumber, Specflow and Test Driven Development (TDD) using tools such as XUnit and NUnit. (0.25%) Demonstrable experience within last 3 years of delivering applications and services exploiting some of the following - cloud services, low code such as MS PowerApps, Flow and Dynamics. (0.25%) Nice to Haves Experience of working within Government Digital Services (GDS) standards. (0.25%) Demonstrable experience within last 3 years’ experience of providing SFIA level 4 to 6 developers for some of these development technologies Java, Go, Python and Node JS. (0.25%) No. of Suppliers to Evaluate 3 Proposal Criteria Provide a summary of ADS’ requirement and your proposed solution. (6.00%) Explain how you’ll meet ADS’s requirement. How this approach/methodology will meet ADS’ policy goals/user needs. What you’ll deliver, how it will continue to be managed to ensure ongoing quality. (8.00%) Describe the approach for transition and commencement of service. (4.00%) Provide evidence of skills and experience of the team who will be doing the work and how these will meet ADS’ essential and desirable requirements. (5.00%) Provide the team structure, roles and responsibilities and explain how this will integrate within ADS and maintain continuous development activity. (4.00%) Explain your ability to mobilise the team resources and scale up or down quickly. (3.00%) Explain how you plan to retain key resources/skills for the duration of the contract and your approach to maintaining service continuity. (1.00%) Explain how you will ensure quality and consistency whilst maintaining flexibility for ADS to meet evolving business requirements. (3.00%) Explain how the proposal will optimise costs and generate efficiencies, including minimising transition costs between the current team and the new supplier. (3.00%) Provide any KPIs and SLAs that you would be prepared to commit to for this contract. (2.00%) Describe any risks and dependencies associated with your proposal and how you will manage them. (1.00%) Describe your exit plan for the transition to an alternative supplier at the end of the contract. (2.00%) Cultural Fit Criteria Evidence your success in working with a product owner to derive requirements. (1.00%) Evidence your commitment to an open and collaborative working relationship at all levels with a no blame culture embraced. (1.00%) Evidence your commitment to working collaboratively within a multi-vendor delivery environment with effective communication and co-ordination across stakeholders. (2.00%) Explain your plan to add value to ADS through the use of innovation and continuous improvement. (1.00%) Payment Approach Capped time and materials Assessment Method Case study Reference Presentation Evaluation Weighting Technical competence 70% Cultural fit 5% Price 25% Questions from Suppliers No questions have been answered yet Budget range the authority will not be releasing the budget for the core requirement as we want to ensure vfm is achieved via competition. please note there will be a non-guaranteed limit of liability of c£22m for additional requirements throughout the duration of the resulting contract based on approved bcs. these additional requirements will be through an agreed tasking order form.