Awarded to Capgemini UK plc

Start date: Wednesday 17 May 2017
Value: £62,000
Company size: large

NEST (National Employment Savings Trust) Corporation

NEST Corporation Service and Data Transition Specialist

9 Incomplete applications

6 SME, 3 large

14 Completed applications

11 SME, 3 large

• Published: Tuesday 11 April 2017
• Deadline for asking questions: Tuesday 18 April 2017 at 11:59pm GMT
• Closing date for applications: Tuesday 25 April 2017 at 11:59pm GMT

Overview

• Specialist role: Business analyst
• Summary of the work: Define the service and data transition approach to enable NEST to migrate to a new supplier for its pension scheme administration contract, via delivery of a Migration and Service Transition Strategy, Scope and Approach.
• Latest start date: 15/05/2017
• Expected contract length: 3 months with a view to extending a further 9 months
• Location: London
• Organisation the work is for: NEST (National Employment Savings Trust) Corporation
• Maximum day rate: £950 a day exc. VAT

About the work

• Who the specialist will work with: Reporting to the Director of Technology.; ; This role involves working closely with the other teams working on the Long Term Sourcing Programme, as well as with areas across NEST including the Product & Solutions team, Testing team, the Programmes team, and Service Management teams to ensure that future requirements align with the needs of internal stakeholders.
• What the specialist will work on: NEST requires a Service and Data Transition Specialist to join the Long Term Sourcing Programme, and work on defining the service and data transition approach to enable NEST to migrate to a new supplier for its pension scheme administration contract.; ; The Service and Data Transition Specialist will define the methodology and the deliverables required to complete the design and describe this in the new contract requirements.

Work setup

• Address where the work will take place: 2a Southwark Bridge Road; London; SE1 9HQ
• Working arrangements: Onsite 5 days a week

Additional information

• Additional terms and conditions: Digital Outcomes and Specialists 2 call-off contract; ; https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/583666/digital-outcomes-and-specialists-2-call-off-contract.pdf; ; IR35 legislation: resources provided to NEST are either:; ; * Full time salaried employees of the tendering organisation and appear on their companies PAYE. NEST may require evidence.; * Working under an umbrella company. Under the assumption that umbrella companies are exempt from the Intermediaries legislation changes, then we would want a formal response/assurance from the company to confirm their intention to use an umbrella solution for the duration of their engagement with NEST.; ; The opportunity is published on BravoSolution under TEN-1718-001.; https://nesttenders.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.shtml; ; All communication and application must go via the Bravo platform.

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:
  • Must have worked for a financial services (ideally pensions) company and gained an understanding of the breadth of organisational functions that the enterprise wide architecture needs to support
  • Must have played a key role in large (service and data) transformation projects and understand the complexities of migrating data and services from legacy to new solutions
  • Will be able to write functional and non-functional requirements into a contract.
  • Analytical with an eye for detail and timely delivery.
• Nice-to-have skills and experience: • Will ideally have experience of relational databases built for large volumes as well as Hadoop based technology for storage of unstructured data.

How suppliers will be evaluated

• How many specialists to evaluate: 10
• Cultural fit criteria:
  • The ability to influence stakeholders.
  • The ability to see the big picture, as well as understand, elaborate and challenge the detail when required.
  • Finds it easy to work with others, and has good teamwork and communication skills.
  • The ability to explain complex (technical) requirements using clear and unambiguous language.
• Assessment methods:
  • Work history
  • Interview
• Evaluation weighting:

  Technical competence

  40%

  Cultural fit

  20%

  Price

  40%

Questions asked by suppliers

• 1. Is this role within IR35?: Yes, the role falls within IR35 legislation.; ; NEST expects resources provided are either:; • full time salaried employees of the tendering organisation and appear on their company's PAYE. NEST may require evidence.; • Working under an umbrella company. Under the assumption that umbrella companies are exempt from the Intermediaries legislation changes, then NEST would want a formal response/assurance from the company to confirm their intention to use an umbrella solution for the duration of their engagement with NEST. This confirmation could be sought every 3-6months of the engagement with associated PAYE evidence to be provided to support the above assertion.
• 2. Would you require CVs now or after shortlisting suppliers? if you require this now, where/ what email address would you like us to send it to?: CVs are to be submitted as part of the tender response.; ; All tender responses need to submitted on the Bravo platform as described in the Additional Information section of this opportunity.
• 3. What is the lead time for feedback once the application is submitted?: Tenders received are shortlisted: Post 12.00 noon 27 April; Finalised/shortlist communication and candidate interviews arranged: 2nd May 2017; Final evaluation: candidates put forward by shortlisted suppliers are interviewed: 5 -8 May 2017; Tender outcome communicated: 9 May 2017; ; Full timetable available in the tender document on our Bravo procurement platform.
• 4. Can more than one candidate per supplier be submitted for this role?: Yes
• 5. Is there any travel involved in this role and will the travel expenses be paid?: The work is based at our office in central London, and any travel costs to and from our office will not be reimbursed.; ; Travel is unlikely to be needed for the role, but if it is then expenses will be reimbursed as per NEST expense policy.
• 6. Is occasional remote working allowed?: No.
• 7. What is the total number for positions open for this role?: One
• 8. Does the candidate need any type of security clearance before the candidate is submitted?: No. NEST will perform standard employee background checks on the successful candidate. These are described in more detail in the tender document on our Bravo platform.
• 9. 'The opportunity is published on BravoSolution under TEN-1718-001.' Can not seem to find this opportunity on Bravo, can you please check that it is indeed publish?: Apologies, there was a problem with visibility of the tender for unregistered suppliers on our Bravo platform. That has now been resolved and the tender (TEN-1718-001) can be seen via the following link:; ; https://nesttenders.bravosolution.co.uk/esop/guest/go/public/opportunity/current
• 10. Are candidates to be submitted via DOS and the Bravo platform or can we just submit via Bravo?: All candidates must be submitted via Bravo as part of the supplier tender responses.
• 11. "All communication and application must go via the Bravo platform." What does this mean? Do you not require suppliers to apply via this DOS2?: CVs are to be submitted as part of the tender response. All tender responses need to submitted on the Bravo platform as described in the Additional Information section of this opportunity text.
• 12. Is there any SC clearance required for this?: No. NEST will perform standard employee background checks on the successful candidate. These are described in more detail in the tender document on our Bravo platform.