Deadline Date: Monday 1 September 2025
Requirement: Senior Technical and Engineering SME Services
Location: Corsham, GB
Full Time On-Site: Yes
Time On-Site: 100%
Period of Performance: 2025 BASE: starting date ASAP but no later than 6 October – 31 December 2025 with possibility to exercise the following options:
2026 Option: 1st January 2026 until 31st December 2026
2027 Option: 1st January 2027 until 31st December 2027
2028 Option: 1st January 2028 until 31st December 2028
Required Security Clearance: NATO COSMIC TOP SECRET
Great Britain (GBR) C2 Support & Cooperation Project, NATO Software Tools (NST) Partnership Senior Technical and Engineering SME. Role is Off-Site Embedded within GBR Ministry of Defence (MOD) Corsham
1 INTRODUCTION
The NATO Information and Communication Agency (NCI Agency) located in The Hague, The Netherlands, is currently involved in the development of joint, new capabilities/services for NATO and Nations as well as the support of existing capabilities and services. In the light of these activities, the C2 Centre is looking for an experienced Senior Technical Manager and Technical -SME.
Aligned with the deliverables under Scope of Work section, selected candidate will provide:
1. Support for the NCIA Liaison Officer (LO) on Defence Digital (DD) GBR on all technical issues
2. Current OPS and new technologies SME Support for NATO Software Tools (NST) Communications and Information Partnership (NST C&IP)
3. Technical SME and engineering support and expertise for Multi Year Cooperation Framework Agreements.
2 OBJECTIVES
Aligned with the deliverables under Scope of Work section, the objectives of this statement of work are to:
4. Support the development and validation of C2 Services Enabling requirements, architectural products and technical specifications;
5. Support the Alliance Federation information sharing concepts, services and specifications. This includes support to NATO interoperability exercises;
6. Providing technical and engineering support for C2 activities in the area of CIS Federation, NATO/National Gateway (NNG), Alliance Federation Network (AFN), and Federation Mission Network (FMN).
7. Support the completion of NATO SW Tools Communications and Information (NST C&IP) Roadmap objectives for Data Centric Security, Cloud Exploitation and Inclusion of National Requirements.
8. Produce objectives status reports per each NST C&IP syndicate, two times per year
3 SCOPE OF WORK
Under the direction of the NCIA project managers of the GBR C2 Support & Cooperation and NST, the contractor will deliver the following services using Agile methodology:
9. Support and provide updates in GBR / NNG project meetings and provide documentation to support these meetings. Provide status reports in Q2 and Q4 with explicit links to deliverables.
10. Coordinate workshops and planning meetings with Nations and NCIA.
11. Support the NST C&IP Nations in development of current and future capabilities and services. Support development of service definitions for new and updated services in NST C&IP POW.
12. Support GBR C2 Support in GBR drive to rationalise future NCIA connectivity and services. Provide technical status reports in Q3 and Q4 with explicit links to savings to the GBR / NCIA contracts.
Aligned with Appendix A - NST C&IP Introduction Syndicate Activities and Roadmap Objectives:
13. Support NST C&IP Cloud Exploitation Syndicate by addressing 15 roadmap objectives for current year. Provide Cloud Exploitation Objectives Status Report in Q2 and Q4 with explicit links to deliverables per objective.
14. Support NST C&IP Inclusion of National Requirements Syndicate by addressing 15 of the roadmap objectives for current year. Provide Inclusion of National Requirements Objectives Status Report in Q2 and Q4 with explicit links to deliverables per objective.
15. Support NST C&IP Data Centric Security Syndicate by addressing 25 of the roadmap objectives for current year. Provide Data Centric Security Objectives Status Report in Q2 and Q4 with explicit links to deliverables per objective.
16. Participate in NST C&IP Syndicate Workshops 1&2 to support the presentations and discussions. Provide technical observation and assessment report following the workshops.
17. Participate in NST C&IP Working Groups 1&2 Syndicate Sessions to support the presentations and discussions.
4 ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The contractor will be part of a team (NCIA project managers, embedded LOs, and NCIA Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), etc.) and will work using an Agile and iterative approach using multiple sprints. Each sprint is planned for a duration of one month. The content and scope of each sprint aligned with bullets under section 3, will be agreed with the project managers and the embedded LO during the sprint-planning meeting, in writing.
The collective deliverables comprise a Sprint of one month duration. They are to be peer-reviewed ahead of the final version for each product being delivered. Direction and guidance on the reporting format (verbal brief, written brief, report, design, specification etc) will be provided by the project managers and the LO.
5 DELIVERABLES AND PAYMENT MILESTONES
The SPRINT main activities are the following:
1. Support the completion of NST C&IP Roadmap objectives for Data Centric Security, Cloud Exploitation and Inclusion of National Requirements. Produce objectives status reports per each syndicate, two times per year
2. Provide GBR C2 Support driving to rationalise future NCIA connectivity and services. Provide status reports in Q3 and Q4 with explicit links to savings to the GBR / NCIA contracts
3. Contribute to OF5-level GBR C2 and Cooperation Project and NST C&IP Engagement Reports – monthly;
4. Follow-up individual actions generated from the engagement reports, providing deliverables in the format specified by the project managers and / or the LO – weekly;
5. Support the PMs from a technical perspective, to establish and maintain contact with the other domains (Maritime, Land, Air, Cyber, Space). Record and update risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies and opportunities (RAIDO). Capture and log in the RAIDO log – monthly;
6. Support on technical engagements across C2 Support to Nations projects. Drive and collate technical activities with stakeholders on the Engagement Matrix – updated on an ongoing basis;
7. Produce a Sprint Report summarising the sprint activities for the month. Advise on further RAIDO for consideration of the corresponding projects.
6 PAYMENT MILESTONES
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.
The following deliverables are expected from this SOW are described below.
Deliverable: Max 3 sprints, 1 Sprint (Monthly) (Number of sprints is estimated and will be adjusted based on actual starting date.)
Payment Milestones: Upon completion and acceptance of each sprint
2026 Option: 01 January to 31 December 2026
Deliverable: Up to 12 sprints
Cost Ceiling: Price will be determined by applying the price adjustment formula as outlined in CO‐115786‐ AAS+ Special Provisions article
Payment Milestones: Upon completion and acceptance of each sprint
2027 Option: 01 January to 31 December 2027
Deliverable: Up to 12 sprints
Cost Ceiling: Price will be determined by applying the price adjustment formula as outlined in CO‐115786‐ AAS+ Special Provisions article
Payment Milestones: Upon completion and acceptance of each sprint
2028 Option: 01 January to 31 December 2028
Deliverable: Up to 12 sprints
Cost Ceiling: Price will be determined by applying the price adjustment formula as outlined in CO‐115786‐ AAS+ Special Provisions article
Payment Milestones: Upon completion and acceptance of each sprint
7 SCHEDULE
This task order will be active immediately after signing of the contract by both parties.
The BASE period of performance is as soon as possible but not later than 06 October 2025 and will end no later than 31 December 2025.
8 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.
NATO will retain the intellectual property rights for all products developed in relation to this project.
9 SECURITY
CTS level is the highest access to NATO classified information given, for the implementation of this project.
Services provided under this SOW require a valid NATO CTS security clearance.
The expected classification level of the deliverables is NATO Restricted. However, in some particular circumstances it may be decided that a part of the deliverables and the associated work will be classified as NATO COSMIC TOP SECRET (CTS).
Services to be provided may require the consultant to access information, as well as CIS systems, classified up to NATO SECRET.
10 PRACTICAL ARRANGEMENTS
The majority of the services will be performed at MoD Corsham (access to appropriate NATO and UK digital services required, which are not available elsewhere). Any services provided outside of MoD Corsham will be with the agreement of the relevant Project Lead and / or the Liaison Officer.
Extraordinary travel (Purchaser-Directed Travel) may be required to other NATO or non-NATO locations as necessary so agility must be maintained.
Travel expenses will be reimbursed separately in accordance with Article of AAS+ Framework Contract.
Services under this SOW must be accomplished by ONE contractor.
11 COORDINATION AND REPORTING
The contractor shall participate remotely 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, first verbally during the retrospective meeting and then in written within three (3) days after the sprint’s end date. The format of this report shall be a short email to the project manager mentioning briefly the work held and the development achievements during the sprint.
12 QUALIFICATIONS
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Requirements
9 SECURITY
18. Services provided under this SOW require a valid NATO CTS security clearance.
12 QUALIFICATIONS
The consultancy support for this work requires a project coherence and administrator with the following qualifications:
19. Minimum 5 years knowledge of Defence Digital (DD) Corsham activates (including Communication Information & System (CIS) technical delivery mechanisms, Support mechanisms, Network compliance) and structure.
20. Minimum 5 years experience in working with NATO/NCIA particularly in technical delivery
21. management, assurance of services.
22. Proven ability to negotiate with Project teams, chair technical discussion and participate in Capability Planning meetings.
23. Knowledge of Microsoft office productivity tools (Office/Excel/PowerPoint).
24. Proven ability to integrate and work in a multinational team.
25. Fluent business English and the ability to present when called upon to do so.