Awarded contract

National Standardised Assessment of Scotland - Technical Product Owner & Service Delivery Manager

Details

Value
£860,000
Topic
Youth education services
Published
19 January 2024

Tender description

The Scottish Government has a requirement to place a contract with an external service provider for the provision of National Standardised Assessment of Scotland – Technical Product Owner & Service Delivery Manager. A Technical Product Owner is required to manage the technical side of the current assessment platform, and to lead on the scoping, planning and delivery of future platform development work. The Technical Product Owner should be suitably experienced in assessment platform design and maintenance, and be able to lead on planned technical development work both internally within the Scottish Government, and externally with suppliers and partners. A Service Manager is also required to lead on the adherence to and development of service management processes already in place for phase two of the NSA platform. With a focus on improving end user service, the Service Manager will also input heavily on the development and scoping of service management options for the phase three platform and ensuring a smooth transition in due course. It is anticipated that this would be on a 4-days per week basis.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award date18 December 2023
  2. Completed: Award published19 January 2024
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About the buyer

The Scottish Government is a devolved central government department that buys through its Scottish Procurement and Property Directorate. Regulated procurements across the Scottish public sector are advertised on Public Contracts Scotland, the national portal set up in 2008. Bids are usually submitted through PCS-Tender, the national eTendering system it funds. The directorate also runs frameworks covering construction, corporate services, ICT, professional services, utilities and HR. Many of these frameworks are open to the wider Scottish public sector as well as central government. The Supplier Development Programme offers free tender training to SMEs and third sector organisations.

Procurement spend from central entities makes up 66% of overall UK public spend.

Over the past 5 years, most of the Scottish Government's contract awards have been in business services, IT services and research and development.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 80310000 · Youth education services

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