English Heritage
Technical Architect
17 Incomplete applications
15 SME, 2 large
18 Completed applications
18 SME, 0 large
Important dates
- Published
- Thursday 25 April 2019
- Deadline for asking questions
- Monday 29 April 2019 at 11:59pm GMT
- Closing date for applications
- Thursday 2 May 2019 at 11:59pm GMT
Overview
- Specialist role
- Technical Architect
- Summary of the work
- We are looking for a technical architect who can produce a detailed infrastructure design to separate our network away from an existing shared network.
- Latest start date
- Tuesday 7 May 2019
- Expected contract length
- Estimated as 4 weeks
- Location
- South West England
- Organisation the work is for
- English Heritage
- Maximum day rate
- To be discussed.
About the work
- Early market engagement
- N/A
- Who the specialist will work with
- The specialist will work with English Heritage's Technology Services (IT) internal team.
- What the specialist will work on
- Design a solution to create an independent, self contained corporate network for English Heritage including the separation of network services, active directory, e-mail, intranet, remote access, internet services and cyber security.
Work setup
- Address where the work will take place
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English Heritage
The Engine House
Fire Fly Avenue
Swindon
Wiltshire
SN2 2EH - Working arrangements
- Office based in Swindon Head Office. Likely 5 days per week.
- Security clearance
- N/A
Additional information
- Additional terms and conditions
- Standard T&C's.
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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- Previous experience of designing Microsoft Azure tenancies.
- Previous experience of designing trust relationships.
- Design strategies for migrating users from legacy tenancy / domain.
- Experience of designing Office 365 deployments.
- Nice-to-have skills and experience
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- Provide evidence of working with Charities.
- Provide evidence of previous similar experience.
How suppliers will be evaluated
- How many specialists to evaluate
- 3
- Cultural fit criteria
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- Work as a team with our organisation and other suppliers.
- Takes accountability and ownership of design.
- Challenge the status quo.
- Assessment methods
- Work history
- Evaluation weighting
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Technical competence
75%Cultural fit
5%Price
20%
Questions asked by suppliers
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1. 1) What is the maximum budget for this task?
2) What is the IR35 status?
3) Is there a current incumbent? -
1) There is no maximum budget at this time for the design phase.
2) Inside the IR35.
3) No. - 2. 1) Will this contract be outside of IR35?
- 1) We believe that because we are asking for a specific deliverable, as a service that the Technical Design is outside of IR35.
- 3. 1) Please can you confirm if there is currently an incumbent in the role?
- 1) No.
- 4. 1) Please can you confirm if there is currently an incumbent in the role?
- 1) No.
- 5. 1) Please can you confirm if the role is inside/outside IR35?
- 1) We believe the role is outside of the IR35 as we are buying a service to design the separation of our network infrastructure.
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6. 1) Please can you confirm if the role is inside or outside?
As on one question it's been deemed inside IR35, the next outside IR35? - 1) I believe that as we are procuring a design service for a specific deliverable (the design) and therefore this would sit outside of the IR35 remit.
- 7. 1) Very grateful if you could confirm if it is Inside or Outside IR35?
- 1) Outside of IR35.
- 8. 1) What is meant by 'Previous experience of designing trust relationships'?
- 1) We need a trust relationship between two networks so that we are able to consume Shared Services such as Service Now.
- 9. 1) Job title of the Person/s reviewing the tender responses?
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1) A panel comprising of:
Head of Technology Services (IT)
Solution Architecture and Development Manager
Technical, Risk and Assurance Manager (inc. Vendor Management)
Service and Operations Manager
Technical Senior Project Manager