Published date: 2 October 2020

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 16 October 2020, 11:59pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Software programming and consultancy services - 72200000

Location of contract

United Kingdom

Value of contract

£20,000 to £30,000

Procurement reference

RPF-NCCE-02

Published date

2 October 2020

Closing date

16 October 2020

Closing time

11:59pm

Contract start date

2 November 2020

Contract end date

31 March 2021

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Other: Individual contractor recruitment

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

Based: Remote (UK only) with regular meetings at the University of Cambridge
Eligibility: You must be eligible to work in the UK

Raspberry Pi and the University of Cambridge are seeking a contractor to support development of the online teaching platform IsaacComputerScience.org. The platform itself is shared with IsaacPhysics.org and is open source software (https://github.com/isaacphysics/).

The contractor will need to design, build, integrate and test a substantial new feature for the platform. Currently, the platform automatically marks and provides immediate feedback to students when answering questions. We would like to extend the platform to support diagnostics quizzes and summative assessment which require students to complete a set of questions with either limited or no immediate feedback. The solution will require modification of both backend and frontend services and must be fully integrated into the existing platform, including appropriate support for automated testing. The contractor will need significant full-stack expertise in all the relevant programming languages and libraries used by the platform including Java, Jetty, PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch as well as TypeScript, JSON and React.

The contract must be cleared to work for the University of Cambridge with previous experience of working with equipment at the Department of Computer Science and Technology.

For further information please contact mbp36@cam.ac.uk.

How to apply: Please submit your CV and a cover letter outlining your skills and experience to mbp36@cam.ac.uk.

About the buyer

Address

37 Hills Road
Cambridge
CB2 1NT
England

Email

mbp36@cam.ac.uk