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Type of document: Contract Notice
Country: United Kingdom

1. Title: C4ISR SCHEDULER – SHORT DEADLINE
2. Awarding Authority: Ministry of Defence, Defence Digital MIX C4ISR, GB. Web:
3. Contract type: Service contract
4. Description: Off-payroll (IR35) determination Supply of resource: the off-payroll rules will apply to any workers engaged through a qualifying intermediary, such as their own limited company
Summary of the work Including but not limited to:
Production of reporting detail on status/quality of project plans
Providing evidence to support robust governance/reporting
Ensuring Risk/Resource adjusted plans are produced
Provide evidence for decision making
Effective planning/scheduling
Monitoring/development of delivery schedule.
Update priority workstreams and other related documents
Support C4ISR Governance meetings.
5. CPV Code(s): 72000000, 72260000, 72261000, 72262000
6. NUTS code(s): UKK, UKK1, UKK15
7. Main site or location of works, main place of delivery or main place of performance: Location South West England
Address where the work will take place DD C4ISR are based at Mustang Building and Building 405, Westwells Road, MOD Corsham, SN13 9NR.
8. Reference attributed by awarding authority: Not provided.
9. Estimated value of requirement: Maximum day rate £650 ex VAT
10. Closing date for applications 13.3.2023 (23:59:00).
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 Wednesday 8 March 2023 at 11:59pm GMT
Latest start date Sunday 23 April 2023
Expected contract length 4 months, including extension periods: 12 months + 6 months pending financial approval
About the work
Early market engagement
Who the specialist will work with Civilian, Military and contractors within the MOD and wider Defence industry.
What the specialist will work on Support the C4ISR Programme Manager in any reports and returns/activities that need to be completed and expected. Provide project scheduling updates in consultation with the relevant Project Manager and ensure that the appropriate project controls are in place to ensure the schedules are Defence Digital compliant.
Schedules to be assured and ensure that risks/dependencies are documented within the schedule information and be able to adapt to both waterfall and agile approaches.
Act as Scrum Master for Stand Up sessions and engage with the Project Managers to ensure the latest position for the Kanban Board and the priority workstreams
Working arrangements The successful candidate will need to work between 4 and 5 days per week. Opportunities for some home working are available. This individual will report to the C4ISR Programme Manager in DD MIX.
Security clearance Valid SC clearance must be in place prior to the contract starting and for the duration of the contract due to the projects the individual is required to work with.
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
Give an example of your Expert level usage of Microsoft Project-On-Line with experience of developing/maintaining an Integrated Master schedule (IMS) of multiple projects including linking dependencies, baselining, and tracking (10%)
Demonstrate recent experience of working within a large-scale IT software & hardware multi-year delivery programme in the last 5 years (10%)
Demonstrate experience and knowledge in Agile scheduling, including leading Scrum reporting, managing Kanban boards, representing prioritisation of work and backlogs (10%)
Conformation of Expertise in Schedule Risk Analysis (SRA) application and processes and presenting results to support business cases (10%)
Give an example of generating, analysing, and presenting accurate and current reporting including High light reports (HLR) and Business Progress Reports (BPR), etc. (10%)
Demonstrate experience of tracking supplier payment planning and creating financial views to support financial outcome planning (FOO) (10%)
Provide an example of your ability of managing project management product and artefacts and configuration control (10%)
Expertise of organising, preparing, and running monthly Programme Reviews with reference to the scheduling for the Programme manager (10%)
Give an example of your understanding regarding programme objectives and risk (use of ARM) and proactively linking these to scheduling (10%)
Nice-to-have skills and experience
Give recent experience of incorporating Defence ISP Agreement Plans and Demands into schedules (5%)
Experience of adherence to Defence EPMO scheduling policies and standards (5%)
How suppliers will be evaluated
All suppliers will be asked to provide a work history.
How many specialists to evaluate 3
Cultural fit criteria
Knowledge and experience of working at a senior/influencing level in a large (>150 people) multi-disciplinary team responsible for delivering a complex capability to a customer (25%)
Provide experience of training and assisting others in planning & scheduling to Best practice standards (25%)
A time you have remained transparent and collaborative when making decisions (25%)
A time you have worked as a team with a complex organisation and other suppliers, including knowledge and experience of scaled Agile ways of working (25%)
Additional assessment methods
Evaluation weighting
Technical competence
70%
Cultural fit
10%
Price
20%
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