Resource Services Support Framework Agreement

Tender description

To appoint a number of contractors to a framework for the provision of resource services to Energia Group and its subsidiary businesses. Applicants will be assessed in accordance with the Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016, as amended on the basis of information provided in response to pre-qualification questionnaire ("PQQ") in line with those instructions and selection criteria outlined in the Project Information Memorandum (PIM). Copies of the PIM and PQQ are available on request by email to procurement@energiagroup.com. Completed PQQs must be returned to Energia electronically at the address in section 1 before the specified deadline. Energia Group NI Holdings Limited is the procuring entity for itself and on behalf of Energia Corporate and IT, Power NI and Energia Retail, their affiliated subsidiaries and trading entities (Participating Organisations) that are wholly owned by Energia Group NI Holdings Limited and Energia Power and Energy Holdings DAC. Lot 1: Mobile and Web Application Development Lot 1 shall be used to obtain front-end applications (web and mobile system development (IOS and Android platforms)) services, along with any midtier applications if required. Lot 1 shall include services for the full end to end delivery of an application or for the provision of skilled personnel to support Energia Group with the delivery of an application. Energia Group anticipates the following of areas for front end mobile and web application development: • MS.NET, HTML5, CSS3, C#, Razor, Blazer Web Assembly, SQL, HTML5, React Native; • Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery using Azure DevOps or Jenkins CI; • Web apps hosted on Azure PaaS cloud infrastructure; • Azure API development. Lot 2: SOFTWARE TESTING AND QUALITY ASSURANCE Lot 2 shall be used to obtain software testing and quality assurance services. Lot 2 shall include services for a 'testing as service' model or for the provision of skilled personnel to support Energia Group with the testing of applications. Lot 2 Testing as Service The testing as a service model shall include the outsourcing of one or more of the following non-exhaustive elements: • test design - the preparation of test strategies, test plan and test cases; • test management - the managing, reporting and scheduling of technical resources for test execution, managing test risk and managing quality assurance; • test data preparation - the preparation test data for test execution; • test execution - execution of user acceptance testing, regression, functional or performance testing; and • test automation - the development and support of code to automate functional or non-functional performance testing. Lot 3: CLOUD NATIVE AND BACKEND ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS DEVELOPMENT Lot 3 shall be used to obtain development services for cloud native and backend engineering applications. Lot 3 shall include services for the full end to end delivery of a cloud native applications or for the provision of skilled personnel to support Energia Group with the delivery of cloud native applications. Energia Group anticipates calling-off the following areas for cloud native applications development: • MS.NET, C#, SQL; • Application architecture, • Microservice architecture; • Event driven architecture; • Big Data and High-Performance Computing; • Re-architecting of existing applications to meet a new target operating models; • Azure Cloud Platform and design and implementation services: o Serverless PaaS architecture; o DevSecOps; o DevOps; o Infrastructure as Code development;, o Cloud platform configuration; o Polyglot persistence; o Asynchronous processing; o Designing for failure; o Iterative frequent update management; o Automated self-management processes; o Azure Integration services; and o API design, development and support. Lot 4: PROJECT RESOURCING This lot will be used to meet any shortfall in any project personnel experienced by Energia Group and will include (but is not limited to): • project managers; • solution architects; • application architects; • technical analysts; • QA analysts; • QA test automation developers; • developers; • business analysts; or • trainers.