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Type of document: Contract Notice
Country: United Kingdom

1. Title: CBR RECOVERY PHASE SURGE LOGISTICS MODEL
2. Awarding Authority: Defence Science Technology Laboratory (dstl) on behalf of DEFRA, GB. Web:
3. Contract type: Service contract
4. Description: Construction of a CBR incident Recovery Phase model
5. CPV Code(s): 72210000, 72000000, 72300000, 72320000
6. NUTS code(s): UKJ, UKJ3, UKJ36, UKK15
7. Main site or location of works, main place of delivery or main place of performance: Location No specific location, for example they can work remotely
Address where the work will take place Development anywhere in UK. Demonstration at Porton Down.
8. Reference attributed by awarding authority: 1000164122
9. Estimated value of requirement: Budget range Anticipated budget is from £30K to £50K
10. Closing date for applications 21.5.2021 (11:59 pm).
11. Address to which they must be sent: For further information regarding the above contract notice please visit
12. Other information: Deadline for asking questions Friday 14 May 2021 at 11:59pm GMT
Latest start date Friday 18 June 2021
About the work
Why the work is being done
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has asked Dstl to provide Operational Analysis (OA) support to aid Defra to understand, and plan for, the consumable requirements of Recovery Phase , operatives responding to a CBR incident in the UK mainland.
Problem to be solved
“Defra have requested resilience planning support via the production of a simulation model that can:
determine and quantify the items of CBR-specific consumables, or equipment, that would be required in the Recovery Phase of a credible CBR incident;
determine strategies that can ensure access to these items e.g. through stockpiling, call-off contracts or via strengthening supply chains;
provide initial assessment of these strategies through quantitative analysis; and,
indicate which consumables are causing the most impact on the Recovery Phase time.
Who the users are and what they need to do
The User of the model will intially be Dstl analysts who will use a simulation model to investigate the procurement strategies available to Defra. Defra would also like to be able to use the model at a later date.
Early market engagement
Any work that’s already been done
An initial set of high-level statements of requirements and potential use cases have been captured. These will need to be explored further by Dstl and the supplier partnering prior to the production of a formal requirements document.
Existing team
The supplier will have access to Operational Analysts, CBR Recovery Phase Subject Matter Experts, Simul8 experts and V&V experts within the CBR division at Dstl.
Current phase
Discovery
Working arrangements “There should be a kick-off meeting to agree the approach. A teleconference at OFFICIAL-SENSITIVE/or a physical meeting at Dstl Porton Down each weeks should be scheduled to discuss:
Update on technical progress
Progress versus project schedule
Risks/issues
Design documentation and results of model testing and pass/fail of Test scripts
The delivery should be
a documented set of requirements
a validated and verified model against these requirement
model documentation
test script design and documentation
All documentation must conform to Dstl software guidance.
Security clearance Due to the short timescale available to the project, staff must be already cleared to work at OFFICIAL-SENSITIVE. Off-site premises will be required to hold OFFICIAL-SENITIVE material.
Additional information
Additional terms and conditions
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
Provide Experience of eliciting and documenting software requirements
Experience of producing measurable software requirements
Experience of working in complex scientific domains
Experience of writing simulation models in Simul8
do you hold clearance to OFFICIAL-SENSITIVE level information prior to the start of the project
Can you complete the requirement within 3 months of the contract start date?
Nice-to-have skills and experience
Experience of identifying test cases for software requirements
Previous experience with working to Dstl software guidelines
How suppliers will be evaluated
All suppliers will be asked to provide a written proposal.
How many suppliers to evaluate 5
Proposal criteria
Suitability of the provided outline work-plan, identifying relevant tasks, staffing, and technical and management approaches.
Evidence that the proposed staff have the requisite expertise and work experience to undertake their identified tasks.
How well risks and dependencies have been identified and whether offered approaches to manage them are appropriate.
The suitability of proposed deliverables and the clarity of their definition; including evaluation of their compliance with specified requirements.
Cultural fit criteria
Work as a team with our organisation and other suppliers
Be transparent and collaborative when making decisions
Have a fail-fast and no-blame culture that encourages people to learn from their mistakes.
Used to providing “government-source” software, with sufficient documentation such that others can enhance/maintain it.
Payment approach Fixed price
Additional assessment methods
Evaluation weighting
Technical competence
50%
Cultural fit
20%
Price
30%
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