# QA & Core Systems ADM Partner

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [STUDENT LOANS COMPANY LIMITED](/buyers/student-loans-company-limited/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: [ACCENTURE \(UK\) LIMITED](/contract-winners/accenture-uk/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £20,000,000
- Tender value: £20,000,000
- Award date: 3 April 2018
- Published: 30 May 2018
- Contract start: 3 April 2018
- Contract end: 1 October 2020
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 7516bf29-9634-4879-82fc-74c0f76f079a-219077
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-c3eb87c1-5601-472c-9fb8-a09472c17ae5

## Description

Contract Award Notice for QA & Core Application Development and Services, awarded through the CCS Framework Agreement - Digital Outcomes and Specialists \(RM1043iv\)\. The scope of services within this Call-Off Contract includes but is not limited to: For the provision of Application Development and Maintenance Services and Quality Assurances capabilities as a managed service to support and accelerate the delivery of specific programme outcomes within Buyer's core systems and potentially digital systems\. Services and outcome requirements include, but is not limited to: \* Core Application Development and Maintenance \(ADM\) Services \(including DevOps, testing, project management and QA\); \* Demand management, resource management, planning, change management, delivery performance management, quality management, account management, knowledge transfer, and governance services; \* Full service operation - E2E application delivery and management \(incl\. design, test and architecture services\); \* Transition Services; \* Elicitation and informing strategic options, solution design, solution architecture; \* Programme, project / delivery management, and quality management services; \* Legacy Migration and Remediation Services; \* Data Services including data management, data integration, data modeling, data architecture, data integrity, database management, data mining, big data; \* Platform Services including multi-platform, multi-operating system, multi-database environments \(including open source, Cloud, on-premise, noSQL etc\.\); \* Solution Integration Services including service design, service management, service integration, end user support, training, end-user provisioning, solution integration, service tooling, and security tooling; \* Inbound and Outbound communications technologies \(including scanning, workflow, electronic correspondence, document storage, document formatting\); \* Drive forward existing complex architectures, balancing competing demands of challenging delivery, with effective management of technical debt, and achieving key strategic objectives; \* Work on systems heavily integrated into a complex legacy estate, involving heterogeneous platforms and different delivery methodologies; \* Build complex micro service, service orientated and event based architectures; \* Operate at scale and effectively prioritise and manage significant backlogs of work across a number of Agile delivery teams, including knowledge sharing/transfer; \* Operate in a DevOps culture to deliver effective continuous integration, continuous delivery, nfrastructure automation, test automation and application monitoring leading to tangible business benefits\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/7516bf29-9634-4879-82fc-74c0f76f079a-219077)