713710451 (DInfoCom/0282) Provision of ADS Integration as a Service (IaaS)

Tender description

Which phase the project is in Not applicable Existing team The Team will be working with the Army Digital Solution Data Pillar Team and the wider Army Digital Solution Team throughout the contract. Address where the work will be done Army Headquarters, Andover Working arrangements The contract is to be delivered in a collaborative manner to ensure Army and Defence requirements are understood and met. Attendance by employees at various meetings, workshops, scrums, planning and technical sessions for the mutual benefit of both parties is required. The supplier is to provide a monthly update meeting and a quarterly progress meeting (attended remotely or face to face.) Provide more information about your security requirements: Security Check (SC) Provide more information about your security requirements (optional): Security Clearance (SC) will be required for the duration of the role. Incumbents are to follow both the letter and spirit of Army Headquarters security regulations. Latest start date 2025-05-01 Enter the expected contract length: 2 years, 1 month Extension period: 1 year Special terms and conditions The Authority has assessed this requirement outside the scope of IR35. This assessment has been conducted in accordance with the MoD Intermediaries Legislation IR35 Guidance and is deemed as an output/outcome based contract. Whereby the supplier is responsible for managing their resources to deliver the required outputs, and they have responsibility and liability for the all the work and its delivery. Are you prepared to show your budget details?: No Indicative maximum: NA Provide further information: The Authority will not be releasing the Budget for the Core requirement as we want to ensure VFM is achieved via competition. Confirm if you require a contracted out service or supply of resource Contracted out service: the off-payroll rules do not apply Summary of work Contract for an IaaS capability that will permit ADS to continue delivering key integration services on behalf of the Army and services and advice to wider Defence. The contract will be designed to fulfil the technical requirement and capacity demanded by the business to maintain current and projected capability. Where the supplied staff will work South East England Why the work is being done The work is being done to provide key integration services (including MoD's ‘Application Programming Interface (API) First’ directive) through the design, development, sustain and maintain of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and the various gateways these flow through whilst providing advice and guidance to the wider Army and Defence. The business problem you need to solve APIs enable the passage of data from one system to another and are controlled by gateways that provide security and access to that data. This requires robust documentation, increased levels of security, comprehensive testing, routine versioning, and high reliability to ensure data continues to flow to enable Defence capabilities. These requirements often go beyond the scope of most software-based activities and the use of APIs necessitates dedicated suitably qualified and experienced personnel to deliver the services. First user type: The users of this service are Army and Defence Business Teams who require new API interfaces and/or wish to use existing interfaces for the purpose of using data for applications, capabilities, and analytics and/or require deployment, support and licences for an API Gateway to be deployed in Defence environments outside of the Army Hosting Environment/Army Cloud.