Scottish Enterprise
P21-0036 Microsoft Dynamics Developer
14 Incomplete applications
13 SME, 1 large
24 Completed applications
23 SME, 1 large
Important dates
- Published
- Monday 15 June 2020
- Deadline for asking questions
- Wednesday 17 June 2020 at 11:59pm GMT
- Closing date for applications
- Monday 22 June 2020 at 11:59pm GMT
Overview
- Specialist role
- Developer
- Summary of the work
- An exciting digital transformation programme putting Microsoft Dynamics CRM at the heart of our processes and interactions with users. The programme has started and will continue to develop a web front end to interact with users through a secure account space to and from CRM to power transactions with users.
- Latest start date
- Thursday 25 June 2020
- Expected contract length
- 9 months
- Location
- Scotland
- Organisation the work is for
- Scottish Enterprise
- Maximum day rate
- £650 this rate is to include all costs and expenses
About the work
- Early market engagement
- Who the specialist will work with
- Working within an Agile service design, delivery and support team of circa 30 people responsible for digital transformation activities across the organisation. It’s a multidisciplinary team with software developers, testers, designers, user researchers, Dynamics developers, service designers and product owners. The Dynamics developer will work closely with all of the team as well as the users of the CRM system across the business.
- What the specialist will work on
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The specialist will support the implementation of SE’s digital transformation. Primarily the role will initially focus on a workstream covering the following activities:
1. Data Quality, Compliance and Security - Delivering new practices to significantly reduce data quality issues entering Dynamics 365,
2. Services to Partners
We will onboard other partners and provide more responsive and predictive approaches that enables their business operations in line with Microsoft’s roadmap of supported features.
3. Continuous Integration Build
Automating the test code and building and deploying the solutions. We currently use Visual Studio for the development site and Team City for CI build.
Work setup
- Address where the work will take place
- The supplier is expected to supply a resource to work as part of the team. A core team is based in Glasgow city centre and work standard working hours of 9-5 Mon-Fri. It is expected that the resource would be available for physical meetings and coworking at times but remote working is available.
- Working arrangements
- The supplier is expected to supply a resource to work as part of the team. A core team is based in Glasgow city centre and work standard working hours of 9-5 Mon-Fri. It is expected that the resource would be available for physical meetings and coworking at times but remote working is available.
- Security clearance
- Baseline Personnel Security Standard level clearance is required for this role.
Additional information
- Additional terms and conditions
- This role is outwith 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
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- Javascript front end and C# Plugin/workflow Development
- Microsoft Flow / Logic Apps
- Continuous Integration Build
- Form Design
- Business Rules Development
- Business Process Flow Development
- Microsoft Azure Development
- Sharepoint Integration
- Nice-to-have skills and experience
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- SSRS Writing Skills
- FetchXML Experience
- Experience modifying SiteMap
- Dialog development / replacement
- Security Role Profiling
- Data migration
- Writing technical specifications for planned work
- Advanced Find Query Development
How suppliers will be evaluated
All suppliers will be asked to provide a work history.
- How many specialists to evaluate
- 4
- Cultural fit criteria
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- Work as part of an agile team, helping others clear priority tasks as required
- Deliver value to customers early and often.
- Be transparant and collaborative in decision making.
- Take responsibility and ownership of tasks.
- Challenge the status quo.
- Additional assessment methods
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- Reference
- Interview
- Evaluation weighting
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Technical competence
75%Cultural fit
5%Price
20%
Questions asked by suppliers
- 1. Is there a current incumbent?
- Yes
- 2. Given the current Covid-19 restrictions, do you have a minimum number of days a week you would expect the developer to be on site? Will this change as Covid-19 restrictions ease?
- Given the current environment we are all working from home, once restrictions have been lifted the task's performed will determine the location therefore we are unable to say how many days a week will be needed on site going forward.
- 3. If the suitable Candidate doesn't currently hold Baseline Personal Security Standard level clearance would they still be considered due to the expected start date?
- Yes they would, they would be expected to apply for the clearance should they be successful.
- 4. As the closing date is 22nd June, you are proposing that shortlisting, interviewing and contracts all take place within 2 days.
- Depending on the amount of submissions there may be a slight delay on the start date but our evaluation team are hoping to complete everything within this timeline.
- 5. Is the £650 per day inclusive of VAT?
- This is excluding VAT.
- 6. Once the restrictions are lifted, the person might need to be onsite for this role. Can you please specify the location(s) where the work needs to be performed?
- The location would be one of our Glasgow offices.
- 7. Please can you clarify if there is an incumbent? Thank you
- Yes I can confirm there is an incumbent supplier.
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8. What is the likelihood percentage that the incumbent will be the successful candidate?
A. 25% B 50% C. 75% D. 100%
Please select the closet option - This is an open and transparent procurement process, we will evaluate all responses as per the guidance of the framework.