Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy

SAS Admin & Developer for Analytical Platform

4 Incomplete applications

3 SME, 1 large

7 SME, 0 large

Specialist role: Data engineer
Off-payroll (IR35) determination
Summary of the work: Opportunity to use your SAS expertise and knowledge on a cloud based analytical platform.
Latest start date: Monday 8 March 2021
Expected contract length: initial contract is up to 12 months. Option of extension dependent of funding
Location: London
Organisation the work is for: Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy
Maximum day rate: up to £300 per day

Early market engagement
Who the specialist will work with: The team is embedded with the Analytical community and serves other external departments, but all users are Analysts (Statisticians, Economists, Operational Researchers and Social Researchers).
What the specialist will work on: 1. Monitoring SAS servers so that they are running in the most efficient state.
2. Support others to develop their own SAS capabilities, including ProcSQL and maintenance.
3. Ensure data stored in SAS server is held securely and stored efficiently.
4. Help develop technology paths so other databases and software packages to access SAS.
5. Using best coding techniques to get the best out of SAS capabilities.
6. Support Analytical Platform support team.

Address where the work will take place: Westminster, London
Working arrangements: Currently working for home during lockdown
Post covid - hybrid work form home and office based (london)
Security clearance: Willing to undergo Security Clearance (SC).

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

Essential skills and experience: Experience of administration of SAS Server - 15 points

Experience of using BASE SAS, Enterprise Guide, Graph and another major SAS component - 15 points

Experience of at least one scripting language, such as VB Script, Python, R, PHP or a similar language - 10 points

Experience of working with OFFICIAL-SENSITIVE data. - 10 points

Experience of using Metacode - 15 points
Nice-to-have skills and experience: Experience of transferring data between SAS and other applications, such as MS SQL Server - 10 points

Experience of MS Excel and MS Access 2010 or later - 5 points

All suppliers will be asked to provide a work history.

How many specialists to evaluate

Cultural fit criteria

Able to work in a small multi-skilled team - 5 points
Willing to help develop other colleagues' capability - 5 points
Able to communicate complex solutions in a simple manner for non-technical users - 10 points
Transparent and able to report back on feedback, positive and negative - 5 points

Additional assessment methods

Evaluation weighting

Technical competence

45%

Cultural fit

20%

Price

35%

1. £300 per day for a Data Engineer, is that correct, as well below market rate for this role and assume this includes agency margins too.: I can confirm that our "up to" rate is £300 per day. This is the amount we pay to the resource supplier.
2. Is this inside or outside IR35?: this is outside IR35.
3. Is there a current incumbent?: Yes
4. 1. Do you have any incumbent vendor? 2. If there is any then please let us know what are the key pain points ?: 1. Yes
2. None