Quality Assurance and Testing Services RM3810 - Lot 1: QA & Testing Specialists
Department For EducationEstimated Value
Up to £2,450,000
Deadline
6 September 2019
Published
27 February 2020
Type
services
Full Description
Testing Services, to support Data, Digital and Technology (DDaT) projects across the DfE.
The contract will be a "Call Off" and be used as and when services are required, via individual Statements of Work" (SOW).
This contract under Lot 1: QA & Testing Specialists and will ensure that there is
- Access to a flexible and cost effective pool of Test specialist professionals, bought 'as a service' and capable of delivering services across the full life-cycle of your project or design process
- continuity of Testing services across DDaT
- on-going reliability in the provision of testing services.
- a means for individual work requests to be used to request testing specialists professional.
- a means for the contracts to be managed as call-off contracts, where individual project teams will continue to be responsible for demonstrating their own business cases, arranging the appropriate spend controls and following the agreed governance & assurance frameworks to call-off any services they require to support delivery of their project(s).
Requirements
The contract will be a "Call Off" and be used as and when services are required, via individual Statements of Work" (SOW).
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Faculty Science Limited
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Methods Business and Digital Technology
1 contract wonlatest 30 May 2025£9m
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Methods Business and Digital ltd
1 contract wonlatest 30 May 2025£9m
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Department for EducationKey Dates
Published
27 February 2020
Submission deadline
6 September 2019
Notice type
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