Deadline Date:
Monday 1 September 2025
Requirement:
Senior Technical and Engineering SME Services
Location:
Corsham, GREAT BRITAIN
Full Time On-Site:
Yes
Time On-Site:
100%
Not to Exceed:
2025 BASE SPRINTS: NTE €7,830 / sprint for a total amount of 3 sprints €23,490 for 2025
2026, 2027 and 2028 OPTION
Period of Performance:
2025 BASE: 6 October2025
Required Security Clearance:
NATO COSMIC TOP SECRET
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apply for any NATO contract positions unless you meet ALL the following criteria:
- Current National or NATO SECRET clearance
- Nationality of one of the NATO member countries
- Current work visa for the specific location if applying for an in-country position
Any applications that do NOT meet all the above - and do not CLEARLY show these on the CV - will be deleted.
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:
Aligned with the deliverables under Scope of Work section, the objectives of this statement of work are to:
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:
Practical Arrangements:
Coordination and Reporting:
Security:
The consultancy support for this work requires a project coherence and administrator with the following qualifications:
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.
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
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.
- 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.
- 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.
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 5.5 of AAS+ Framework Contract.
- Services under this SOW must be accomplished by ONE contractor.
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.
Security:
- Services provided under this SOW require a valid NATO CTS security clearance.
The consultancy support for this work requires a project coherence and administrator with the following qualifications:
- Minimum 5 years knowledge of Defence Digital (DD) Corsham activates (including Communication Information & System (CIS) technical delivery mechanisms, Support mechanisms, Network compliance) and structure.
- Minimum 5 years experience in working with NATO/NCIA particularly in technical delivery
- management, assurance of services.
- Proven ability to negotiate with Project teams, chair technical discussion and participate in Capability Planning meetings.
- Knowledge of Microsoft office productivity tools (Office/Excel/PowerPoint).
- Proven ability to integrate and work in a multinational team.
- Fluent business English and the ability to present when called upon to do so.