UK Research and Innovation

UKSBS DDaT20306 UKRI Website

3 Incomplete applications

3 SME, 0 large

6 SME, 0 large

Specialist role: Developer
Summary of the work: 1. System support and maintenance
2. Issue resolution
3. Managing Git repositories
4. Managing and maintaining server environments
5. Monitoring and reporting of performance
6. Produce and maintain system configuration documentation
7. Produce and maintain disaster recovery documentation
8. Building and configuring new systems within Amazon Web Services
Latest start date: Friday 1 January 2021
Expected contract length: 12 Months with the option to extend for 3 months
Location: No specific location, for example they can work remotely
Organisation the work is for: UK Research and Innovation
Maximum day rate: £500

Early market engagement: N/A
Who the specialist will work with: UKRI Digital Data and Technology, and Communications and Public Engagement teams
What the specialist will work on: Support and maintenance of the UKRI website and UKRI partner websites. Building and configuring new services within the UKRI cloud environment

Address where the work will take place: Polaris House, North Star Avenue, Swindon in line with current government guidance in response to COVID-19
Working arrangements: Offsite working with remote access. Main support hours between 09:00 to 17:00 weekdays with a facility to resolve emergency issues out of normal working hours. 4 working days per week
Security clearance: Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS)

Buyers will use the essential and nice-to-have skills and experience to help them evaluate suppliers’ technical competence.

Essential skills and experience: Detail your skills and experience of the Mura Content Management System (version 6.2 onwards) - 9 points

Detail your experience in the use of ColdFusion and Lucee - 9 points

Demonstrate your experience of building and configuring applications on Amazon Web Services - 9 points

Demonstrate your experience of the WordPress Content Management System - 6 points

Demonstrate your experience in Elasticsearch, including management, configuration and development - 5 points

Detail you experience in the use of Jenkins (or equivalent tools for Continuous Integration) - 4 points

Demonstrate your experience in web design technologies including CSS, HTML5, JavaScript, jQuery, jQuery UI, Bootstrap and Angular - 4 points

Detail your experience in good development and deployment practices, and working with source control repositories especially Git, GitHub and Git submodules - 4 points

Demonstrate your experience of Microsoft SQL Server (or equivalent) - 3 points

Detail your skills and experience of managing conflicting and competing priorities and delivering results within set timeframes - 3 points
Nice-to-have skills and experience: Detail your experience of MySQL or MariaDB - 2 points

Detail your experience in PHP - 2 points

All suppliers will be asked to provide a work history.

How many specialists to evaluate

Cultural fit criteria

Demonstrate how you will work as part of a team with our organisation and other suppliers throughout the project
Demonstrate how, when making decisions, you will work transparently and collaboratively with the team and other project stakeholders throughout the project.
Demonstrate how you will implement a no-blame culture and encourage people to learn from their mistakes.

Additional assessment methods

Interview

Evaluation weighting

Technical competence

60%

Cultural fit

10%

Price

30%

1. Is there a current incumbent?: Yes there is an incumbent supplier.
2. Would you consider someone working remote in Europe?: In order for us to assess in advance weather there may be security constraints associated with the location of remote working, please could you email DOS@uksbs.co.uk with the location so that we can advise further.
3. The tech stack you have listed is quite lengthy. Once our team ran a search within our associate base and LinkedIn the only person that appeared currently works for UKRI. We obviously cant speak for other suppliers but if we get closer to the deadline of the 3rd. Could you list some a more relaxed list of tech if you aren't getting applications you need? Or is the stack a definitive list?: This is a definitive list.
4. Would role be inside or Outside IR35?: The role is outside of IR35.
5. Is there an incumbent?: Yes there is an incumbent supplier.
6. Would you consider someone working remote in Europe?: There are no additional constraints to any candidates working remotely in Europe.