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Type of document: Contract Notice
Country: United Kingdom

1. Title: OBC2 – FURTHER WORK TO INCREASE CAPABILITY OF SECRET IT
2. Awarding Authority: Ministry of Defence, GB Email: Anne.OBrien112@mod.gov.uk. (Anne O’Brien)
3. Contract type: Service contract
4. Description: The Awarding Authority is considering a procurement for a Technical Delivery Provider from a single supplier, providing DevSecOps resources with technical skill sets to an ongoing multi-year, multi-million pound project, within a wider project team. This Request for Information (RFI) serves as an early stage of market engagement, to gather information about the number of relevant suppliers available in the market, and their associated size. By answering this RFI, suppliers indicate their capability in this field and their potential interest in supplying resources to Defence Digital. There is no commitment from Defence Digital to procure any resources described herein, nor will this form serve as a means of selecting preferential suppliers for any procurement process that may occur.
The remit of the Delivery Provider will be fully defined at the time of any ITT.
The Delivery Provider would be procured as a large team (approximately 20-50 people), comprised of several smaller teams, each with a different focus and related technical skill set. These teams will likely change in size over the course of the contract, reflecting shifts in requirement priorities, and will be expected to work in an agile environment. The currently planned set of teams and a brief description of their roles is as follows:
Platform Team. Develop, deliver and support a new build workspace hosting environment and the user access devices with which to access it.
Workspace Team. Develop, deliver and support the new build workspace (desktop operating systems and client-hosted services) used by end users.
Services Team. Develop, deliver and support the services used by end users and other services in support of the new build workspace.
Data/Apps Remediation Team. Transitioning historic services and associated secure data.
Operations Team. Supporting live services.
This RFI is to assess the scale and availability of appropriately skilled resources.
5. CPV Code(s): 72000000, 72212000
6. NUTS code(s): UKK, UKK1, UKK11
7. Main site or location of works, main place of delivery or main place of performance: South West (England), Gloucestershire, Wiltshire And Bristol/Bath Area, Bristol, City Of.
8. Reference attributed by awarding authority: Project Code 705209452-RFI
2022/S 000-025907
9. Estimated value of requirement: Not provided.
10. Listing Deadline 5.10.2022 (12:00:00).
11. Address to which they must be sent: You must register or log in at Web: to participate in this tender.
12. Other information: Notes Default Additional Notes
Procurement Route Other
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TKR-2022922-EX-1885201