Description
Deadline Date:
Monday 29 July 2024
Requirement:
NIRIS Software Developer
Location:
Off-Site
Note:
Please refer to your Subcontract Agreement, article 6.4.1.a, which states “Off-Site Discount: 5% (this discount is applicable to all requirements, and applies when the assigned personnel are permitted to work Off-Site, such as at- home)". Please be sure to price this discount in your overall price proposal when submitting bids against off-site RFQs
Period of Performance: 2024 BASE period: 09 Sep 2024 – 31 Dec 20242025 OPTION period: 01 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025Tentative start date is 09 Sep 2024.
Required Security Clearance:
NATO SECRET
1 INTRODUCTION
The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) located in The Hague, The Netherlands, is currently involved in the development of new capabilities for NATO as well as in the support of existing capabilities. In the light of these activities, the C2 Service Centre is looking for experienced software developers.More specifically, the work will support the full software development cycle of the Networked Interoperable Real-Time Information Services (NIRIS) software. NIRIS has been developed to meet the Minimum Military Requirement (MMR) for receiving, disseminating and providing situational awareness information for Command and Control (C2) and is currently the most widely used system for providing such information in NATO.
2 OBJECTIVES
The main objectives of this statement of work can be summarized is to develop / update NIRIS software modules.
3 SCOPE OF WORK
Under the direction / guidance of the NCIA Point of Contact or delegated staff, the software developer will develop and update NIRIS software modules. This includes the following activities:• Develop / update Java software modules• Develop / conduct unit and (automated) testing of software components• Attend virtual and in-person meetingsThe contractor will be part of a team and will work using an Agile and iterative approach during multiple sprints. Each sprint is planned for a duration of 1 week.
The content and scope of each sprint will be agreed during the sprint-planning meeting.
4 DELIVERABLES AND PAYMENT MILESTONES
The following deliverables are expected from the work on this statement of work:
4.1 2024 BASED DELIVARABLE AND PAYMENT MILESTONES
Deliverable 01: 10 sprints of software developerPayment Milestones: Upon completion of each fourth sprint and at the end of the work.The NCIA team reserves the possibility to exercise a number of options, based on the same scrum deliverable timeframe and cost, at a later time, depending on the project priorities and requirements.The payment shall be dependent upon successful acceptance of the Delivery Acceptance Sheet (DAS) – (Annex B) including the EBA Receipt number. Payment will be provided based on these deliveries as indicated in the table.
Invoices shall be accompanied with a Delivery Acceptance Sheet (Annex B) signed by the Contractor and project authority.
4.2 2025 OPTION DELIVARABLE AND PAYMENT MILESTONES
Deliverable 01: 10 sprints of software developerPayment Milestones: Upon completion of each fourth sprint and at the end of the work.The NCIA team reserves the possibility to exercise a number of options, based on the same scrum deliverable timeframe and cost, at a later time, depending on the project priorities and requirements.The payment shall be dependent upon successful acceptance of the Delivery Acceptance Sheet (DAS) – (Annex B) including the EBA Receipt number. Payment will be provided based on these deliveries as indicated in the table.
Invoices shall be accompanied with a Delivery Acceptance Sheet (Annex B) signed by the Contractor and project authority.
5 COORDINATION AND REPORTING
The contractor shall participate in daily status update meetings, sprint planning, sprint retrospectives and other meetings, physically in the office, or in person via electronic means using Conference Call capabilities, according to project manager’s instructions.For each sprint to be considered as complete and payable, the contractor must report the outcome of his/her work during the sprint.
6 SCHEDULE
This task order will be active immediately after signing of the contract by both parties and will end no later than 31 December 2024.If 2025 option is exercised, the period of performance is 01st January 2025 to 31st December2025.
7 CONSTRAINTS
All the deliverables provided under this statement of work will be based on NCI Agency templates or agreed with the project point of contact.All code, scripts, documentation, etc. will be stored under configuration management and/or in the provided NCI Agency tools.All the deliverables of this project will be considered NATO UNCLASSIFIEDThe contractor shall have a NATO SECRET security clearance.
8 PRACTICAL ARRANGEMENTS
The contractor will be required to provide services offsite. Access to the NCIA code repositories will be provided in coordination with the NCIA Point of Contact or delegated staff.The contractor may be required to travel to NCI Agency, The Hague, the Netherlands and other sites within NATO for completing these tasks.Travel costs are out of scope and will be borne by the NCI Agency separately in accordance to the provisions of the AAS+ Framework Contract.This work must be accomplished by ONE contractor.
9 QUALIFICATIONS
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Requirements
7 CONSTRAINTS
- The contractor shall have a NATO SECRET security clearance.
9 QUALIFICATIONS
The consultancy support for this work requires a software developer with the following qualifications:
- The candidate has relevant and recent experience in software development using Java and Typescript (Angular).
- The candidate has and recent experience in programming at the computer network level.
- The candidate has extensive and recent experience in programming at the network interface level (UDP, TCP) and serial interface level.
- The candidate has relevant and recent knowledge of (programming) Tactical Data Links (TDL), e.g. Link 1, Link 16.
- The candidate is well able to produce efficient, clear, readable, maintainable and high quality code.
- The candidate has experience with developing and troubleshooting near real time systems development.
- The candidate has relevant and recent experience in continuous software integration and automated testing, including knowledge of test automation frameworks.
- The candidate has relevant and recent experience in using development tools (e.g. Maven, Jira, GitLab, Zephyr) and the Scrum methodology.
- The candidate is able to speak and write fluent English since the work is conducted in English
- The candidate must have the nationality of one of the NATO nations.
