Digital Specialists and Programmes (DSP)

Tender description

Crown Commercial Service (CCS) as the Authority intends to put in place a Pan Government Collaborative Agreement for the provision of Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) specialists and facilitate large-scale digital transformation programmes to be utilised by Central Government Departments and all other UK Public Sector Bodies, including Local Authorities, Health, Police, Fire and Rescue, Education and Devolved Administrations. The lotting structure of this framework is as follows: Lot 1 - Digital Programmes Lot 2 - Digital Specialists Further information is included in the Additional Information section VI.3. Lot 1: Digital Programmes Digital Programmes will provide Supplier Staff to deliver strategic objectives through group(s) of projects that involve research, test, design, build, release, iteration, support and/or retirement of digital services, outcomes and deliverables. Buyers will define their specific requirements covered by the programme in their Statement of Requirements. The Supplier must work according to: ● the Technology Code of Practice, ● Service Manual, and ● understand what it means to work on one of the Discovery, Beta, Live or Retirement phases described in the Service Manual. and support Buyers: ● to comply with the above through successful Service Standard assessments: https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/digital-by-default ● to develop Services based on Open Standards Principles and accessible data protocols, to ensure they are interoperable: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-standards-principles/open-standards-principles ● to comply with any adopted open standards that are compulsory in government: http://standards.data.gov.uk/challenges/adopted Suppliers under this Lot are required to have the capability and capacity to provide the following Service Provisions that will comprise the group(s) of related projects to achieve the strategic objectives of a programme: ● DevOps Services support for ongoing live services; ● Digital Definition Services. Either separately or combined Discovery (as extended under Extended Discovery under Paragraph 4.3 below) and /or Alpha phases; ● Build and Transition Services either separately combining Beta phase and/or Retirement phases (including transition to Live). It is anticipated that Live will be covered by an appropriate competition for DevOps Services; ● End-to-End Development Services with the ability to combine the full set of agile phases of Discovery through to Live; and ● Data Management (and similar) Services primarily targeted at building, enhancing and maintaining data assets, migrating data from one system to another and analysis and reporting from such data assets. Lot 2: Digital Specialists Digital Specialists Suppliers will provide Buyers with individual Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) specialist(s) at identified role (or roles) to deliver a specific outcome (or specific outcomes) on a service, programme and/or project. Buyers will define their specific requirements in their Statement of Requirements. Digital specialists suppliers must: ● only provide specialists from their own existing team or through identified key subcontractors, ● offer evidence of competence in each role if requested by the buyer, ● ensure all roles support the government service design manual’s description (https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/the-team) of what you need to build a successful service. Digital specialists suppliers must provide all the Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) roles to be defined in the Framework Specification Any supplier wishing to provide services through an Agency model should be aware that other CCS agreements are available to offer services as an Agency.