Senior Technical and Engineering SME Svcs (CTS) - TUE 7 Oct RELAUNCH

Overview Previously proposed candidates were not compliant for the following reasons:

• Candidate CV indicated that he was more of a program manager. This was not as requested in the SOW. SOW requested a technical lead.
• When checked candidate could not reply to the technical questions, the technical skills from the CV does not match reality

Deadline Date: Tuesday 7 October 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 5 November - 31 December 2025 with possibility to exercise the following options:

1. 2026 Option: 1st January 2026 until 31st December 2026
2. 2027 Option: 1st January 2027 until 31st December 2027
3. 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

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:

• Support for the NCIA Liaison Officer (LO) on Defence Digital (DD) GBR on all technical issues
• Current OPS and new technologies SME Support for NATO Software Tools (NST) Communications and Information Partnership (NST C&IP)
• Technical SME and engineering support and expertise for Multi Year Cooperation Framework Agreements.

Objectives Aligned with the deliverables under Scope of Work section, the objectives of this statement of work are to:

• Support the development and validation of C2 Services Enabling requirements, architectural products and technical specifications;
• Support the Alliance Federation information sharing concepts, services and specifications. This includes support to NATO interoperability exercises;
• 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).
• 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.
• Produce objectives status reports per each NST C&IP syndicate, two times per year

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:

• 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.
• Coordinate workshops and planning meetings with Nations and NCIA.
• 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.
• 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:

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Participate in NST C&IP Syndicate Workshops 1&2 to support the presentations and discussions. Provide technical observation and assessment report following the workshops.
• Participate in NST C&IP Working Groups 1&2 Syndicate Sessions to support the presentations and discussions.

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.

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.

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.

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 6.5.

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 6.5.

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 6.5.

Payment Milestones: Upon completion and acceptance of each sprint

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.

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.

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.
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