Department for International Trade
LITE Programme to replace SPIRE licensing import system
4 Incomplete applications
1 SME, 3 large
3 Completed applications
1 SME, 2 large
Important dates
- Published
- Tuesday 3 July 2018
- Deadline for asking questions
- Tuesday 10 July 2018 at 11:59pm GMT
- Closing date for applications
- Tuesday 17 July 2018 at 11:59pm GMT
Overview
- Summary of the work
- Department for International Trade require a supplier for the 'LITE' programme to deliver specific work packages which will create a new licensing platform for exporting and importing strategically controlled goods.
- Latest start date
- Wednesday 1 August 2018
- Expected contract length
- 8 months with an option for a further 6-12 months extension at DIT's discretion
- Location
- London
- Organisation the work is for
- Department for International Trade
- Budget range
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The budget is in the range £0.9-1.1M to cover a design, content and development team. Delivery management will be delivered in house.
This budget that has been approved by DIT and HMT for LITE 2018/19
About the work
- Why the work is being done
- DIT has an existing contract for the delivery of a new controlled goods licensing system due to expire at the end of July 2018. Under this contract a private beta has been developed and DIT now need a new contract to carry forward the private beta into a public beta. The intention is to replace the current legacy service with a modern application which gives DIT the tools to approve (or not) the export of controlled goods while improving the exporting process for traders. The control of these goods is a statutory requirement under the Export Control Act 2008.
- Problem to be solved
- The LITE programme requires a design and development team to deliver to specified work packages. The scope covers design, application development and system testing. Work package 1 will focus on exporting goods and people assessment tools including assessment by DIT, MOD and FCO. Work package 2 will focus on re-platforming the importing system away from SPIRE and onto GOV.uk PaaS. Work Package 3 will focus on understanding if the future requirements for import licensing can be developed using the designs and technologies created for export licensing public Beta.
- Who the users are and what they need to do
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Internal users include but are not limited to staff in Export Control Joint Unit and associated staff at the MOD and the FCO.
External users range from one-person businesses to SMEs to large corporations who manufacture controlled goods and export them to other countries. - Early market engagement
- Any work that’s already been done
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Phase 1 of LITE has been built with aim to release a private beta in summer 2018.
This comprises a tool that assesses Military controlled goods and helps with registering to export them if a licence is not needed. - Existing team
- There is an existing digital team in place but contracts run out in July 2018 after the delivery of the private beta. A service manager and delivery manager will remain as internal DIT staff to ensure continuity. A legacy system (SPIRE) is currently live, with a support team currently in place who will remain so under a separate support contract. The replacement system (LITE) is currently progressing into private BETA.
- Current phase
- Beta
Work setup
- Address where the work will take place
- Windsor House, 50 Victoria St, Westminster, London SW1H 0TL
- Working arrangements
- Working arrangements are expected to be flexible and best configured for the project and supplier teams. Onsite work in Windsor House with regular meetings at 3 Whitehall Place and occasional visits to other UK sites for engagement with customs staff, e.g. ports and airports.
- Security clearance
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Supplier shall apply employee screening controls including verifying:
- Identity
- Nationality and Immigration Status
- Employment history
- Criminal History
All staff must hold or be prepared to undergo SC Security Clearance to operate on this project.
Additional information
- Additional terms and conditions
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DOS2 Framework terms and conditions apply subject to elaborations, clarifications, additional terms and conditions identified at ITT stage for shortlisted suppliers and:
•Rate card and Travel & Subsistence.
•Conflict of Interest/Ethical Walls safeguards (applies to all sub-programme and ‘spin off’ activities whether procured via DOS or other contracting route).
Main charging approach:
Agreed deliverables against the defined phases on a roadmap to a live service. This roadmap is to be approved by the programme board.
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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- Data led transformation of an existing service, taking advantage of more modern approaches to licensing e.g. following the GDS principle of “design with data” (1%)
- Team experience of development using an Agile Scrum methodology, operating in sprints and aligning their development activities to the GDS Digital Service Standard (1%)
- Practical experience of working within a complex test environment ensuring appropriate test coverage (1%)
- Experience of secure development practices for high integrity systems, working with mature and controlled software development processes and legacy systems. (1%)
- Evidence of working closely with a business unit that operates in a complicated regulatory environment (1%)
- Credible and referenced proof of experience and excellent technical competence in Java using Play or Python and Django (1%)
- Experience of development pipeline tooling, specifically Git source code repository, defect tracking systems (JIRA and Confluence), continuous integration tools (Jenkins) and automated testing frameworks (1%)
- Evidence of complex content design activity particularly using triage models from detailed specification content eg a licensing or classification process (1%)
- Nice-to-have skills and experience
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- Teams should be self-motivated, having an ability to work on their own initiative and without constant direction, but also be able to work collaboratively with DIT staff (1%)
- Experience of working in relevant business domains i.e. Licensing and international trade (1%)
- Experience of working within a good governance model using agile, user centred development iteration (1%)
- Migration of SSO, profiles and identity management tools from legacy to new service design led approaches (1%)
- Contribution, development and maintenance of a common department wide taxonomy, using internal and international reference data (1%)
- Experience of service design led approaches to transformation in government with multiple government departments at beta phase (1%)
How suppliers will be evaluated
- How many suppliers to evaluate
- 3
- Proposal criteria
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- Service design capability (10%)
- Delivery Capability – Development & Test (10%)
- Support Capability - Level 3 support to production (10%)
- Resourcing table and CVs - core team roles (6%)
- Transition and Exit (10%)
- Cultural fit criteria
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- Experience in multi-department transformation (3%)
- Experience working with public sector organisations (3%)
- Ability to work collaboratively with key stakeholders (2%)
- Collaboration Approach (2%)
- Payment approach
- Capped time and materials
- Assessment methods
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- Written proposal
- Case study
- Work history
- Reference
- Presentation
- Evaluation weighting
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Technical competence
60%Cultural fit
10%Price
30%
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