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Type of document: Contract Notice
Country: United Kingdom

INFORMATION SERVER DATASTAGE ETL DEVELOPER – SHORT DEADLINE
Contract type: Service contract
Contracting authority: MOD, Defence Equipment and Support. Web: , BS34 8JH.
Object of the contract
Location East of England.
Address where the work will take place RAF Henlow. Bedfordshire SG16 6DN
Working in a joint Awarding Authority to maintain and support Supply Chain & Engineering middleware solutions & data feeds, in fulfillment of large scale contracting for availability and contracted logistics supply contracts.
CPV: 72000000, 48820000, 48800000, 72261000, 72267000, 72262000, 72260000, 72300000
Administrative Information
Closing date for applications 26.2.2018 (23:59)
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Other Information
Deadline for asking questions Wednesday 21 February 2018 at 11:59pm GMT
Latest start date Tuesday 3 April 2018
Expected contract length 12 months with option of 6 months extension
Early market engagement None
Who the specialist will work with Working as part of a technical in-house team with responsibility for the development and maintenance of logistics data feeds to industry and other services. The team comprises of system designers, analysts, architects and data SMEs
What the specialist will work on Working primarily in IBM Information Server 8.7 (may move to later version within contract period) DataStage, part of their Infosphere toolkit there is a need to develop and test against emerging requirements for business to business, data integration and data migration services. This will include new customers of existing services, new data source requirements and new delivery endpoints working with new and existing stakeholders within industry and internal to Awarding Authority.
Work setup
Working arrangements Five days a week on-site (to a maximum of 175 days in the 12 month period) working as part of a technical in-house team and reporting to the team leader who will allocate work priorities. DE&S IT will be provided. This post does not support remote working.
Security clearance SC Clearence is required prior to commencement of the contract
Additional information
Additional terms and conditions We reserve the right to extend for 6 months.
We will follow Awarding Authority T&S, however at the beginning of each SOW we will have a conversation with the winning supplier to understand the travel required. This position has been assessed against the Crown Commercial Services framework as being outside of IR35.
Skills and experience
Buyers will use the essential and nice-to-have skills and experience to help them evaluate suppliers’ technical competence.
Essential skills and experience
Must have very strong understanding of SQL, including the execution and use of functions and stored procedures for Oracle, Informix, DB2 & Teradata DBMS (min 3 yrs experience) – 1%
Must demontsrate they have strong data management and data handling skills, including experience in handling a wide variety of data types including BLOB, CLOB and unstructured data types – 1%
Must demonstrate their ability to read and understand DataStage code, in particular Universe code & procedures and set application parameters – 2%
Must be able to write and develop DataStage code (min 3 yrs experience) – 2%
Must demonstrate their experience and understanding of Entity Relationship Diagrams and data mapping documentation – 1%
Extensive experience in data integration techniques with DB2, Oracle, Informix, Teradata, SQL and Postgres dbms, and MQ & FTP (min 3 yrs exp) messaging & data transfer applications – 1%
Must demonstrate in their response their knowledge of Architectural ETL patterns and processes – 1%
Must demonstrate in their response their ability to perform Data Quality operations using QualityStage & Information Analyzer – 1%
Must have extensive knowledge of developing XML, XML Schemas & XSLTs ((Style Sheet Transformation).(min 1 year exp) – 1%
Thorough understanding of the OAGI Supply Open Standards framework (min 1 yr exp) – 1%
Must demonstrate in their response their ability to analyse, diagnose and resolve complex logic and coding issues in development and test environments – 1%
Must demonstrate in their response their ability to follow strict standards for performing unit and link testing of software component – 1%
Must demonstrate in their response their ability to produce module design artefacts, specifically module specifications and logic flow diagrams – 1%
Must demonstrate in their response their ability to clearly and confidently communicate with other technical and non-technical stakeholders, both verbally and in writing – 1%
Nice-to-have skills and experience
Must clearly define their experience of working with MoD data – 0.5 %
Must clearly define their knowledge of Linux operating systems – 0.5%
Must clearly define their knowledge of MoD Supply Chain & Engineering Information systems, notably MJDI, GoldESP, LITS – 1%
Must clearly define their experience of working within Virtualised environments using Remote access workstations usng Citrix – 0.5%
Must clearly define their knowledge of HP’s BTO Service Manager for incident management – 0.5%
Must clearly demonstrate their understanding of ITIL Service Management functions 0.5%
Must clearly define their familiarity with current Software Development Lifecycles & delivery frameworks (e.g. V model, Agile) – 0.5%
How suppliers will be evaluated
How suppliers will be evaluated
How many specialists to evaluate 3
Cultural fit criteria
Demonstrates flexibility (e.g. the Ability to shift tasks to meet changing priorities)
Share knowledge and experience with other team members
Take responsibility for their work
Assessment methods
Work history
Interview
Evaluation weighting
Technical competence
70%
Cultural fit
10%
Price
20%
Questions asked by suppliers
Please could you advise the max day rate for this role?
There is no maximum rate set and all rates will be considered
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