Test Engineering Services

Contract summary

Industry

• Computer-related professional services - 72590000

Location of contract

London

Value of contract

£4,956,811

Procurement reference

QAT012

Published date

8 November 2017

Closing date

17 July 2017

Contract start date

1 September 2017

Contract end date

31 August 2020

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Call-off from a framework agreement

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

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Description

Test Engineering services across the Home Office and other government departments:

• Quality & Test Assurance: to assure unit and component testing including, but not limited to, advice on best practice, coverage levels, reporting and tooling.


• Test Automation: to develop or enhance and implement test automation models to support cost effective continuous release methods within agile / devops environments. Areas of testing to be covered include:

o Contract testing: automated API tests to ensure the component under test confirms to service definitions.

o Component integration testing: automated tests to test the integration between two components.

o System Testing: automated testing within sprints to test the story in full, likely based on BDD scenarios.

o System Integration testing: tests features end to end across functionality, including automated regression test capability.

o Security testing: automated security tests in order to find issues prior to health checks.

o Exploratory testing: manual tests to be targeted around complex areas of functionality (APIs) and business-critical areas.

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Award information

Awarded date

1 August 2017

Contract start date

1 September 2017

Contract end date

31 August 2020

Total value of contract

£4,956,811

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Acuma Solutions Ltd

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About the buyer

Address

2nd Floor, Southern House
Wellesley Grove
Croydon
CR9 1WW
England

Email

maureen.gore@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk