Digital Professional Services, Technical Expertise and Rapid Resource Deployment

Ofgem will engage the Supplier to provide a managed service for the provision of digital specialists and consultancy resource.The Supplier shall provide individual experts and highly skilled project teams on a fixed delivery model, and be able to manage, deliver and assume responsibility for the outcome of various projects / programmes / requirements.

The nature of requirements will include 'Statement of Works' (SOW) consultancy and professional services to research, test, design, build, release, iterate, support, project manage or retire digital services.It is also expected that the Supplier will aid Ofgem in its efforts to resolve the in-house technical skills gap through both the upskilling of existing staff members in digital capabilities.Specialist resource (individuals or teams) will be required to complete individual milestones or specific project deliverables related to the programme(s) of work.

These will be communicated by Ofgem's contract manager via a SOW on an individual project basis.It is a mandatory requirement for Ofgem that every specialist(s) onboarded via this engagement must be Baseline Personal Security Standard (BPSS) Certified and, in special cases (Ofgem to advise if applicable to the role and circumstances), Security Clearance (SC) approved.