Published date: 29 November 2023
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Contract summary
Industry
IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support - 72000000
Location of contract
Any region
Procurement reference
tender_399437/1283274
Published date
29 November 2023
Closing date
15 January 2024
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
Yes
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
No
Description
UK MOD is planning to tender for the generation of a software Development Pipeline (DP) early calendar year 2024 via Dstl R-CLOUD (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/r-cloud). The DP will cover the full software development lifecycle from requirements to acceptance and is not a Continuous Integration/Continuous Development pipeline. The DP will be hosted on a MOD infrastructure and unrestricted communication to the Internet should not be assumed. The DP is required to be agile and flexible to support:
1. Different programming languages i.e. C, Ada, Rust, Python etc.
2. Different development and testing paradigms i.e. Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), manual generated software, fuzzing, fault injection, integration to synthetic environments.
3. Different criticalities of software i.e. Prototype, Mission and Safety Critical and Secure by Design (SbyD).
UK MOD is interested in tender responses from organisation wishing to create and manage the pipeline. It is also interested in tender responses from individual tool vendors that wish to form part of the pipeline. Bids from consortia that integrate these two approaches are also of interest.
The DP should automate and use hardware resources as much as feasibly possible to reduce the person in the loop activities to the minimum, including automatic generation of documentation. This will require different tool technologies to be incorporated into the DP. To reduce obsolescence, cyber and safety risk N versions (more than one) of tools may be applied at the same stage in the DP. For example, two different compilers.
The DP should provide flexibility to enable MOD to integrate tools separately and independently from the DP developer and should focus on ease of use and measurement of tool, and pipeline, performance.
This will go out to Safety Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems engineering under Robotics & Autonomous, AI and Data Science and Air systems capability areas on the R-Cloud Framework.
Please consider applying for as many capability areas in R-Cloud that suit your organisation for other upcoming opportunities that match capability for your business
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Porton Down Salisbury Wiltshire SP4 0JQ
Salisbury
SP4 0JQ
England
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