2025-0209 NIRIS Software Developer Services (NS) REMOTE - 17 Jul

Deadline date:  Thursday 17 July 2025
 
Requirement Title:  NIRIS Software Developer Services
 
Location of Performance:  Offsite but collaborating with team members from NCIA The Hague
 
Cost Not to Exceed:
2025 BASE: NTE/ sprint 2970 EUR (18 sprints, total NTE 53,460 EUR), 2026, 2027 and 2028 Options
 
Period of performance:  2025 BASE: 18 August 2025
 
Required Security Clearance:  NATO SECRET
 
Introduction:

• The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) located in The Hague, The Netherlands, is currently involved in the development of new capabilities for NATO as well as in the support of existing capabilities. In light of these activities, the C2 Service Centre is looking for ONE experienced software developer (minimum 5 years in software development using Java and Typescript (Angular)).
• More specifically, the work will support the full software development cycle of the Networked Interoperable Real-Time Information Services (NIRIS) software. NIRIS has been developed to meet the Minimum Military Requirement (MMR) for receiving, disseminating and providing situational awareness information for Command and Control (C2) and is currently the most widely used system for providing such information in NATO.

• Develop, update and maintain NIRIS software modules.

• Develop / update Java software modules.
• Develop / conduct unit and (automated) testing of software components.
• Develop / update software documentation.
• Contribute to virtual and in-person meetings.

• The development and testing services will be carried out on an Agency-provided laptop while using remotely the engineering and test facilities in the NATO Software Factory hosted in Microsoft Azure. These facilities consists of all necessary development and test services (such as Gitlab, Jira, Zephyr, Nexus...). The contractor shall update the status of the NIRIS development tasks in Jira, commit code in Gitlab, and maintain test procedures and test results in Zephyr. Some of the work could also be requested to be conducted locally in NCI Agency in The Hague, The Netherlands.
• The contractor will be part of a team (Service Delivery Manager, Project Manager, Solution Architect, Technical Lead, Software Developers, Testers, etc.) geographically distributed and working using an Agile and iterative approach using multiple sprints. Each sprint is planned for a duration of one (1) week.

• Performance of the services described in this SOW require a valid NATO SECRET security clearance provided by the national security organization and valid at the time of submission of the bid covering the period of the requirement.

• All the documentation provided under this statement of work will be based on NCI Agency templates or agreed with project point of contact.
• All scripts, documentation and required code will be stored under configuration management and/or in the provided NCI Agency tools.

• The contractor is expected to work off site. Work on-site can also be arranged with the Project Manager.
• It may be required to travel to NCI Agency The Hague and other sites within NATO for completing these tasks.
• Travel costs are out of scope and will be borne by the NCI Agency separately in accordance to the provisions of the AAS+ Framework Contract.
• This work must be accomplished by ONE resource. In the event the contractor leaves during the contract period, he or she shall be replaced by a new contractor who has the required qualifications and is acceptable. AAS Framework contract Terms and Conditions apply.

• The candidate has relevant and recent experience of minimum 5 years in software development using Java and Typescript (Angular).
• The candidate has relevant and recent experience of minimum 3 years in programming at the computer network level (TCP/IP, UDP, multicast).
• The candidate has relevant and recent knowledge of minimum 3 years of (programming) Tactical Data Links (TDL), e.g. Link 1, Link 16.
• The candidate is well able to produce efficient, clear, readable, maintainable and high quality code.
• The candidate has experience with developing and troubleshooting near real time systems.
• The candidate has relevant and recent experience of minimum 3 years in continuous software integration and automated testing, including knowledge of test automation frameworks.
• The candidate has relevant and recent experience of minimum 3 years in using development tools (e.g. Maven, Jira, GitLab, Zephyr) and the Scrum methodology.
• The candidate is able to speak and write fluent English since the work is conducted in English.
• The candidate must have the nationality of one of the NATO nations.