Awarded to Techolony Limited

Start date: Monday 18 January 2021
Value: £220,000
Company size: SME

Royal Navy - MoD

RN Personnel Reserves Transformation Programme - Digital Specialist APEX Developer 2

3 Incomplete applications

3 SME, 0 large

8 Completed applications

7 SME, 1 large

• Published: Monday 16 November 2020
• Deadline for asking questions: Wednesday 18 November 2020 at 11:59pm GMT
• Closing date for applications: Monday 23 November 2020 at 11:59pm GMT

Overview

• Specialist role: Developer
• Summary of the work: APEX developer support to the RN Personnel Data and Information Exploitation Programme
• Latest start date: Monday 4 January 2021
• Expected contract length: 1 year
• Location: South East England
• Organisation the work is for: Royal Navy - MoD
• Maximum day rate: £730

About the work

• Early market engagement: This is a new role within an existing team.
• Who the specialist will work with: Navy, Navy Reserves and Civilian personnel, other contractors and support organisations operating in or contributing to the personnel management environment
• What the specialist will work on: To lead and undertake application design and development work for the Oracle and related applications to deliver and sustain the RN Personnel Information Exploitation Programme, its derivatives, sub-projects and related support activities with a specific focus on conversion of an existing application set to a new user cohort.

Work setup

• Address where the work will take place: Remote where possible; Whale Island, Portsmouth for meetings and some travelling to Land HQ at Andover and other Navy sites as required.
• Working arrangements: The developer will be working in a team, with outcomes generated by the team to a schedule demanded by the Authority.
• Security clearance: SC is essential. Navy/MoD cannot sponsor security clearance

Additional information

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:
  • Skilled and experienced in front end application design and development using Oracle Application Express.
  • Skilled and experienced designing and building role based custom security components in Apex.
  • Experience in the use of ORDS 18.3.0 including rest APIs and OAUTH2 security
  • Experienced in Apex architecture, integration and security
  • Extensive experience of Oracle databases, scripting and security
  • Data Warehousing architecture and design
  • Data Integration using extract transform load tools
  • Skilled in Oracle Business Intelligence tools
  • In depth understanding of the HR data sets
  • Multiple full life cycle software project experience from initial design to build, deployment and testing.
  • Agile methodology adoption in projects.
  • Running user workshops and liaising with business users in requirement gathering.
  • Skill in translating business objectives and ensuring the implementation is correctly aligned to requirements.
  • Experienced in the use of Oracle Database 18.0.0.3.
  • Experienced in the use of Oracle APEX 18.1.
  • Experienced in Oracle Linux 7.
• Nice-to-have skills and experience:
  • To be proficient in installation, architecture and migration of Oracle applications
  • Experience with Oracle databases, SQL, PL/SQL, XSLT, HTML, JavaScript, Apache 2.4, Tomcat, WebLogic and Oracle DBA skills
  • Experience in the development and execution of unit tests and automated web browser tests
  • Experience working in development teams, working with the Product Owner, requirements analysts and testers on an ongoing basis
  • Experience in sprint planning, daily stand-ups and retrospectives and demonstrating software solutions to stakeholders during sprint reviews
  • Experience in the production of technical documentation to support the application to the standards specified by the IAS Software Development Standards
  • Experience in the production of user stories
  • Experience of the RN and Army data warehouse structures
  • In depth understanding of the HR data sets for Ministry of Defence Armed Forces (JPA)
  • Experience in ensuring developed applications successfully transitions through system testing for subsequent deployment into a live hosting environment

How suppliers will be evaluated

All suppliers will be asked to provide a work history.

• How many specialists to evaluate: 3
• Cultural fit criteria:
  • Work as a team with our organisation and with other government organisations
  • Be transparent and collaborative when making decisions
  • Have a no-blame culture and encourage people to learn from their mistakes
  • Share knowledge and experience with other team members
  • Can work with customers with low technical expertise
• Additional assessment methods: Interview
• Evaluation weighting:

  Technical competence

  75%

  Cultural fit

  5%

  Price

  20%

Questions asked by suppliers

• 1. How will you assess the specialists?: A Work History in the form of a CV will be required within 2 working days of being notified that a supplier has been down-selected.
• 2. Will this be assessed as inside IR35?: Off-payroll working rules (IR35) do not apply.
• 3. Is there a Cyber Risk Assessment?: The Cyber Risk Level is N/A.
• 4. Is there an incumbent supplier in the role?: There is an incumbent delivering this portfolio management activity.
• 5. Would you accept a DV cleared candidate?: Yes, we would accept a candidate with a DV for this role.
• 6. How crucial is it that this individual needs experience in all of the essential fields?: This is a single requirement for one specialist and we are therefore looking for an exceptional portfolio with a wide range of expertise to deliver outcomes required. Suppliers/candidates will need to provide one example outlining their experience in each essential area.
• 7. Please can you provide the town/city for the work base location?: Remote where possible; Whale Island, Portsmouth for meetings and some travelling to Land HQ at Andover and other Navy sites as required.
• 8. Please can you confirm if there is an incumbent in this role: There is currently no incumbent in this role. This is a new role. Please note the previous answer give at question 4 was incorrect.