Published date: 6 February 2020

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 19 November 2019

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development services and related consultancy services - 73000000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£23,394.68

Procurement reference

ONR421

Published date

6 February 2020

Closing date

19 November 2019

Contract start date

14 January 2020

Contract end date

31 May 2020

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Call-off from a framework agreement

A mini-competition or direct purchase from a pre-established framework agreement.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

ONR is seeking to engage one of the Technical Support Contractors (TSC) appointed on Lot 2 of its Technical Support Framework. The TSC is required to develop a training course for the purposes of training ONR inspectors in software analysis techniques, recognising the needs of inspectors, including:
• Inspectors will have attended a pre-requisite course on the causes of failures of software based systems, so inspectors will understand how software can contribute to failures, but not what can be done to efficiently identify and eliminate the causes of failures. This course should fill this gap.
• Inspectors will not be able to undertake significant pre-reading due to operational demands, so the training course should be stand-alone.
• Inspectors will have a range of previous levels of understanding and experience of software analysis techniques, from very limited to significant knowledge in a specific technique. The course should be sufficiently detailed to allow inspectors less experienced in software analysis to learn, whilst giving the more experienced inspectors the information they need.
• Inspectors are likely to be presented with a wide range of proposals from licensees or requesting parties regarding how software analysis techniques will be used, and claims of their efficacy. After attending the course inspectors should be better able to understand the benefits and disbenefits of a number of commonly used techniques, and the reasonable practicability of different techniques for risk control, allowing them to make informed regulatory judgements.
• The training course should be formatted so that the material can be used as a reference source by inspectors in future assessment work. For this reason the material should be available in a suitable electronic format and machine searchable to allow inspectors to quickly access the information in it.
• Inspectors should be provided with material for making notes during the training course.

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Award information

Awarded date

3 January 2020

Contract start date

14 January 2020

Contract end date

31 May 2020

Total value of contract

£23,394.68

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

TUV SUD

Address

Sinclair Building
Janetstown Industrial Estate
Thurso
KW14 7XF

Reference

No reference - other

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Address

Redgrave Court
Merton Road
BOOTLE
L207HS
England

Email

tenders@hse.gov.uk