Published date: 28 April 2017
Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.
Contract summary
Industry
Computer-related professional services - 72590000
Location of contract
Any region
Value of contract
£110,000,000
Procurement reference
RM3810/2 AWARD
Published date
28 April 2017
Closing date
6 January 2017
Contract start date
25 March 2017
Contract end date
24 March 2019
Contract type
Service contract
Procedure type
Open procedure
Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
Yes
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
No
Description
DETAILS OF AN AWARD PROVIDED FOR TRANSPARENCY PURPOSES
Crown Commercial Service as the Contracting Authority has put in place a Pan Government Collaborative Framework Agreement for use by UK public sector bodies identified at VI.3 of the Contract Notice (and any future successors to these organisations), which included Central Government Departments and their Arm's Length Bodies and Agencies, Non Departmental Public Bodies, NHS bodies and Local Authorities.
This procurement will provide access to a range of services such as:
- QA & Test Delivery Ownership: responsibility for, and coordination of, all aspects of QA and Test across the business, programme and or project. Includes making QA and test rules, planning; choice of tools; and team leader.
- QA & Test Analysis: analysis, design and execution: covering a variety of test activities, test types and methods. For example, compatibility testing, accessibility testing, functional testing (including exploratory techniques).
- Test Engineering: developing and delivering test automation outlines and services. Typically working as part of a DevOps capability within an Agile development environment. Increasingly, QA & Test specialists are part of and co-located with the development and scrum teams.
- Non-Functional Testing: design and execution of tests to cover non-functional needs, including load & performance and operational acceptance.
- Integration testing: covering the strategy, planning and execution for complex, large scale technical integration testing.
- Assurance: to understand and mitigate risk during third party-led test activities, typically when working in waterfall delivery cycles or legacy contractual environments.
- Consultancy: to provide technical reviews at project, programme or departmental/business unit level to form best QA & Test practices.
Crown Commercial Service reserved the right for an electronic auction to be held by Public Sector bodies during further competition among the parties to the Framework Agreement(s).
More information
Previous notice about this procurement
Quality Assurance (QA) and Testing for IT Systems
- Opportunity
- Published 19 April 2017, last edited 19 April 2017
Attachments
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- RM3810 Call-Off Contract.v1.0.docx
- Contract notice
- RM3810 Call-Off Contract.v1.0
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- RM3810 Mini Competition and Call-Off Procedure v1.0.docx
- Tender notice
- RM3810 Mini Competition and Call-Off Procedure v1.0
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- QA and Testing - Contract Notice - 421843.pdf
- Contract notice
- RM3810 Contract Notice
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- QA and Testing - Award Notice - 153445.pdf
- Award notice
- RM3810 Contract Award Notice
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- RM3810 QA and Testing for IT Systems Framework Agreement REDACTED FINAL V0.1 (1).docx
- Contract schedules
- RM3810 Redacted Framework Representative Example
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- RM3810 Quality Assurance and Testing for IT Systems- Details of Successful Suppliers (1).xlsx
- Winning bid
- RM3810 Details of Successful Suppliers
Additional text
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Candidates were assessed in accordance with Section 5 of the 2015 Public Contract Regulations (implementing the Directive) on the basis of information provided in response to an Invitation to Tender ('ITT').
This procurement was managed electronically via the Crown Commercial Service's e-Sourcing Suite. To participate in this procurement, participants had first to be registered on the e-Sourcing Suite.
SIDGOV was used to facilitate tendering.
Important Notes:
a) All contract values are estimates. Suppliers are not guaranteed business via this Framework Agreement.
b) The Authority has an option to extend this Framework Agreement up to a maximum of a further year beyond the contract end date stated in this Notice.
Award information
Awarded date
24 March 2017
Contract start date
25 March 2017
Contract end date
24 March 2019
Total value of contract
£0
This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.
See spreadsheet attached
Address
See spreadsheet attached
Reference
None
Supplier is SME?
No
Supplier is VCSE?
No
Additional details
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Additional information can be found on the spreadsheet provided as an attachment to this Award Notice
About the buyer
Address
9th Floor, The Capital
Old Hall Street
Liverpool
L3 9PP
England
Telephone
0345 010 3503
supplier@crowncommercial.gov.uk
Website
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Closing: 6 January 2017