Port of Dover - IT Professional Resource Framework
- Buyer
- Dover Harbour Board
- Value
- £3,000,000
- Closes
- 21 November 2026
- Where
- Dover, the South East
- Type
- Sets up a framework (suppliers apply to join)
In plain English
Dover Harbour Board is setting up a framework of approved IT suppliers who can provide skilled IT professionals on a time-charged basis, with work ordered as needed. The main purpose is to support its IGNITE digital transformation programme, with the estimated total value of the framework at £3 million, and it will also cover other IT projects across the Port.
What the buyer wants
• Provide suitably qualified IT professionals across eight equally weighted service areas: architecture and design, cyber security, project and change delivery, data and insight, testing and quality assurance, user experience and design, service transition, and IT support and technical services. • Supply staff on a Time Charge and Work Order basis, meaning people are paid by the hours they work and brought in against specific work orders. • Support the IGNITE digital transformation programme and other Port IT projects as required over the life of the framework.
Likely requirements
Our reading of the notice. Always check the tender documents.
The framework needs a broad range of specialist IT skills across all eight service areas, so a small firm without a deep bench of senior professionals in several disciplines would struggle to show it can meet the requirements.
How to bid
This is a framework: the buyer picks a set of suppliers now and awards work to them over several years. If you are not on it when it is awarded, you usually cannot win work from it until it is re-tendered, so this is the window to bid.
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