Metropolitan Police Service
Metropolitan Police Service Enterprise Architecture Managed Service
5 Incomplete applications
4 SME, 1 large
29 Completed applications
19 SME, 10 large
Important dates
- Published
- Friday 13 April 2018
- Deadline for asking questions
- Friday 20 April 2018 at 11:59pm GMT
- Closing date for applications
- Friday 27 April 2018 at 11:59pm GMT
Overview
- Summary of the work
- To provide a highly flexible, on-demand infrastructure architecture service to the Met Police across its various programmes and projects.
- Latest start date
- Monday 18 June 2018
- Expected contract length
- 2 Years
- Location
- London
- Organisation the work is for
- Metropolitan Police Service
- Budget range
- Payment will be by delivery of outcomes. However the underlying dayrates will be at public sector SFIA day rates
About the work
- Why the work is being done
- The Met Police is going through an extensive period of transformation. Much of this transformation is ICT focused. The Met has a number of projects and programmes where enterprise architects form a key part of the team. The aim of this contract is to deliver Infrastructure Architecture artefacts so that the Met can continue to deliver its transformation programme.
- Problem to be solved
- MPS Digital Policing requires additional architecture resources to deliver the change programme.
- Who the users are and what they need to do
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The end users are police officers and staff who need high quality dependable information systems to support policing in London.
The immediate stakeholders are the Digital Policing enterprise architecture team, project management and senior management who need high quality analysis, design and documentation, consistent with governance, to deliver major IT transformation programmes. - Early market engagement
- Any work that’s already been done
- Existing team
- All work will be done in collaboration with the enterprise architecture team and under DPS architecture governance.
- Current phase
- Not applicable
Work setup
- Address where the work will take place
- Work will be based in the London area. Principle sites will be Empress State Building, Lillie Road, SW6 1TR and Newlands Park SE26 5NF
- Working arrangements
- Engagements will be managed through statements of work listing the outcomes and artefacts to be delivered. A catalogue of standard artefacts will be provided.
- Security clearance
- Staff will need to be cleared through Met Vetting
Additional information
- Additional terms and conditions
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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- Have experience in delivering patterns, policies and standards in an enterprise class organisation undergoing significant transformation
- Have experience of defining transition state architectures in an evolution towards the agreed vision
- Have worked in a secure environment (public or private sector)
- Be able to demonstrate the ability to deliver on an outcomes basis
- Have experience of presenting proposals to technical and non-technical audiences
- Have experince of defining and applying standards and interfaces in a multi-supplier solution
- Have experience of business operation design and capability mapping
- Nice-to-have skills and experience
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- Has experience of organising architecture work according to TOGAF, Zachman or other well known framework
- Has writen business technology strategies for 1 to 5 year horizons
- Experience of generating outputs in an Archimate compliant tool
How suppliers will be evaluated
- How many suppliers to evaluate
- 3
- Proposal criteria
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- Please provide a statement of your understanding of the requirements accompanied by a risk profile covering both risks to the Met and to yourselves as the potential supplier (40%)
- Please provide the process and timeline from draft Statement-of-Work to commencement of work (30%)
- Please explain how staff can commence work quickly after the supplier is commissioned (30%)
- Cultural fit criteria
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- State their account management model through the contract lifetime (10%)
- Explain how the delivery of outcomes and artefacts will be tracked and managed (35%)
- Explain how they will engage with the formation of new projects prior to SoW, including the proposal of new opportunities in Infrastructure (35%)
- Demonstrate past experience of working constructively in a multi-supplier environment (20%)
- Payment approach
- Capped time and materials
- Assessment methods
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- Written proposal
- Case study
- Presentation
- Evaluation weighting
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Technical competence
50%Cultural fit
20%Price
30%
Questions asked by suppliers
- 1. The opportunity is listed as a Digital Outcome, though the skills/requirements suggest a specialist is required. Can the Authority please confirm whether they're seeking an outcome or specialist, and how many specialists are required?
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The MPS is seeking the supply of enterprise architecture outcomes that will be specified in Statements of Work under the contract. These outcomes will principally be the delivery or review of architecture artefacts during the lifetime of a project.
It is expected that the supplier's team will adapt in size to meet the commissioned workload. For guidance purposes only, the MPS anticipate an average team size of 2 people. - 2. Can the Authority please confirm whether bidders are permitted to use subcontractors
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Bidders are certainly permitted to use sub-contractors and/or partners. The MPS do anticipate that our primary contact is able to hold meaningful discussion around enterprise architecture engagements and is empowered to speak on behalf of the contracting party. The contracting party will be responsible for all aspects of the work commissioned.
If the delivery of the service will be dependant on particular suppliers, the MPS will expect that relationship to be declared to the MPS. - 3. Is the opportunity being assessed inside/outside IR35?
- The contract will be compliant with the DOS framework. The MPS will contract with the supplier for outcomes. The supplier will be expected to manage any subcontracted staff in accordance with all relevant tax law.
- 4. Would the Authority accept Home Office SC clearance?
- The contract will be compliant with the DOS framework. The MPS will contract with the supplier for outcomes. The supplier will be expected to manage any subcontracted staff in accordance with all relevant tax law.
- 5. Would the Authority accept Home Office SC clearance?
- The MPS will require all staff active on the contract to have undergone Met Vetting. The MPS will sponsor the suppliers staff (and associates) through this process. If staff have achieved SC then Met Vetting should not be a barrier.
- 6. Could you confirm the assessment method? The evaluation method is stated however the questionnaire, when submitting an application, does not cover all of this. Does the ability to provide a proposal come at a later date?
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Submissions to the questionnaire will be scored to provide a shortlist. Shortlisted bidders will be invited to present a written response against some sample scenarios. These will be scored to give the preferred bidder.
When answering the questionnaire: Firstly, provide reference examples or evidence of particular activities and skills. Answers of the form "Working for XXX, we delivered ...." and "Our staff are certified as XXX by organisation YYY...." give the MPS the reason to give higher scores. Secondly, answers with greater relevance to the question and the context of the MPS, will be scored higher.