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1051-DPS Risking Search Data Discovery - SR624137341

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27,000,000 GBP

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Summary of the work Impacting Demand/Delivery Management Business Requirements Solution Design Reporting and Dashboarding Code Delivery System Administration Incident and problem management Operations Management Tenant Support, including User Management Event Management/ HPI Management – Provide support when required Change Management – Evaluate change within SLA’s Code Change to support evergreening Capacity/performance management Expected Contract Length 24 months Latest start date Monday 20 September 2021 Budget Range Up to £27,000,000.00 Why the Work is Being Done Data Platform Services (DPS) provides enterprise-wide platform engineering capabilities that enable the building of reporting, searching, risking, advanced analytics and cognitive services. DPS provides the core platform capabilities needed by: • Chief Data Office to implement enterprise data management, manage data sharing and acquisition and provide advanced analytics exploitation services. • Customer Groups to assemble, build and run line of business data services. • Various data consumers within HMRC Business to exploit data, within a supported self-serve framework. DPS offers the supporting capabilities that enable HMRC to become a data-driven and insight-led organisation, drive data innovation and adoption of emerging AI/ML technologies. Problem to Be Solved HMRC has a large and complex legacy Data Analytics estate which needs simplification, and consolidation and transformation to meet the challenges the department now faces. HMRC design and build services to provide environments on which to provision, prepare and transform data and provide services to exploit that data across the organisation, and other government departments. Who Are the Users All HMRC customer groups (Customer Compliance, Customer Services, Customer Strategy and Tax Design, Corporate, VOA) need platform services they can consume for data on which they can build their specific line of business exploitation services. HMRC Chief Data Office needs platform services which enable Data Management, Governance and Data sharing. Other Government Departments rely on the Platform for receiving data for use within HMRC, and sharing HMRC data for their use. Early Market Engagement N/A Work Already Done DPS has been working since 2018 on a new strategy for provision of Data and Analytics services based around a hybrid hosting model with a Logical Data Warehouse at its core. There is a significant amount of work remaining to continue delivery of that evolving platform roadmap. The new platform products will have been delivered at handover, and the focus will be upon extending their use across the data analytics estate and wider enterprise. Currently building services in the cloud and migrating the legacy estate. Existing Team Suppliers will be working with a number of HMRC teams including Data Platform Services. This will also include colleagues from within HMRC, including different suppliers and with project & programme teams. Current Phase Not applicable Skills & Experience • Experience working with and leveraging the benefits of AWS Cloud hosted services/ Microsoft Azure Cloud hosted services. • Experience working with a range of Search products including Elastic, Cloudera Search and Solr. • Experience defining and implementing Risking rules in Drools/risking rules in SAS Decision Manager. • Experience designing, building and administering Graph databases, preferably Neo4j • Experience creating performant solutions with Indexing and search on TB’s / PB’s of data including Cloudera CDH, Oracle and MYSQL. • Experience designing and defining risk rules through Red Hat BRMS. • Experience working with Data Discovery including apache tika and tesseract. • Experience designing, building and managing microservices architected system. • Experience building and managing containeraised applications. • Capability for Java/ Python programming and development • Use of enterprise source control products • Experience with Data Discovery solutions on Data lakes • Creating performant and resilient risking solutions for a large enterprise, including post and real time risking • Supporting 24x7 Search and Risking services. • Experience Managing and Administering Search services • Designing and building solutions fully conformant with WCAG 2.0. • Experience of customer facing issue and incident resolution • Producing and maintaining technical documentation and a Knowledgebase. • Providing accurate and timely information to maintain a Configuration Management Database • Working safely within a UK based secure engineering environment at Security Clearance level. Nice to Haves • Experience with Red Hat Linux 6 and late. • Data discovery work focused on value from unstructured or semi structured data. • Experience/knowledge of working with Government Digital Strategy (GDS). Work Location Primary Location will be agreed as per instruction in each SOW onboarded during the agreement. The Primary Location assigned will be Salford or Southend on Sea. Full address details below. Trinity Bridge House 2 Dearmans Place Salford, Manchester UK M3 5BS Alexander House 21 Victoria Avenue Southend on Sea UK SS99 1AA The supplier shall cover all Travel and Subsistence costs to the Primary Location. Upon request by the Authority, supplier personnel shall expected to travel to other HMRC locations in the UK and the cost of this travel will be covered by HMRC's Travel and Subsistence Expenses policy. Working Arrangments The supplier will be required to co-locate with the existing platform teams, mixed teams comprising both internal staff and other contractors, up to 2 days per week. Travel will be required to other HMRC Delivery Centres. No additional expenses chargeable to HMRC for travel or accommodation in agreed base office locations per SOW. We expect the successful supplier to provide upskilling to permanent staff to increase internal capability. Up to 24 hour support maybe required for some products and services. Some evening and weekend working maybe required for delivery teams. Example: weekend deployments. Security Clearance All supplier personnel assigned to this work shall have BPSS clearance in place for contract commencement date. All supplier personnel assigned to this work shall be eligible to apply for SC clearance. The supplier, with support from the Authority, shall apply for SC clearance on the contract commencement date. Additional T&Cs HMRC Mandatory Terms No. of Suppliers to Evaluate 5 Proposal Criteria • Accountability- successful delivery of project or outcome under time constraints whilst demonstrating value for money. Operating a service to agreed standards and implementing remedial action where outcomes are not met. • Agility - delivering iteratively and incrementally within a context of evolving requirements following SCRUM and Kanban approaches • Knowledge embedding - making knowledge capture and sharing part of day to day activities. Ensuring successful handover at any required stage of a project or a service. • Delivering business value – making sure business requirements are understood, validated via positive challenge and delivered against while understanding the value being generated (i.e. business intent) • Innovative thinking – think outside the set of existing organisational constraints to arrive the most appropriate and efficient route to deliver desired outcomes • MVPs – effective definition and delivery of true MVPs that shorten time to delivering business value • Reusability by design – ensuring solutions are formulated from reusable capabilities as well as ensuring new capabilities are reusable • Simplicity by design – a clear focus on producing and positively challenging solutions to be as simple as possible • Design for minimising build and run costs • Responsive mobilisation – ability to resource work and start delivering in 4-5 weeks • Enough capacity to ensure supplier can cope with DPS demand, in the specified locations • Enough depth and breadth of capability across the supplier resource pool, in the specified locations • Supplier teams are expected to use HMRC's collaboration software like Jira, Confluence and Teams • Experience with Cloud development • Microservices design and development • Experience working in Agile framework and/or Scrum Cultural Fit Criteria • Demonstrate action to support health and wellbeing, including physical and mental health, in the contract workforce. • Influence staff, suppliers, customers and communities through the delivery of the contract to support health and wellbeing, including physical and mental health. • Inclusive and accessible recruitment practices and retention focussed activities including those provided in the Guide for line managers on recruiting, managing and developing people with a disability or health condition. • Implementing the 6 standards in the Mental Health at Work commitment and, where appropriate, the mental health enhanced standards in Thriving at Work • Public reporting by the tenderer and its supply chain on the health and wellbeing of staff comprising the contract workforce, following the recommendations in the Voluntary Reporting Framework. • Engagement plans to engage the contract workforce in deciding the most important issues to address. • Methods to measure staff engagement over time and adapt to any changes in the results. • Processes for acting on issues identified. Payment Approach Fixed price Assessment Method • Reference • Presentation Evaluation Weighting Technical competence 60% Cultural fit 10% Price 30% Questions from Suppliers 1. How do the requirements for this opportunity work alongside those being delivery today via “Data Platform Services – Search, Discovery and Risking Requirements (11641)” which was awarded last year? How do the two work together? Thank you for your question.The expectation is that this opportunity will be used to examine the market opportunities and to replace the existing contract as the funding under those contracts is exhausted. 2. Can you outline the expected timetable of events following the submission of this Tender on July 14th 2021? Thank you for your question.Please see attached the indicative timeline.14 July 2021 – opportunities close15-27 July 2021 – evaluation and moderation phases28 July 2021 – proposal issued11 Aug 2021 – proposals received 12-24 Aug 2021 – evaluation and moderation phases25-31 Aug 2021 – presentations phase1 Sept 2021 – final moderation 2-19 Sept 2021 – internal approvals, contract creation20 Sept 2021 – contract start 3. Are you open to evidences outside UK? Thank you for your question.Unless specifically stated in the requirements, experience outside the UK can be submitted. We would recommend using recent and relevant UK based experience as this would give greater understanding of your company technical and resource abilities to delivery to the UK market. 4. Given the size and complexity of the task, does the Authority intend to de-risk the programme by appointing multiple suppliers or does it intend to put all of its’ ‘risk eggs’ into one supplier basket? Thank you for your question.The expectation is for a single supplier to be appointed for this contract.

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