Provision of an ADS Technical Design Office (TDO)

Descriptions

This contract has already been awarded.

Army Digital Services (ADS) wishes to contract a supplier to provide a comprehensive Technical Cloud Architecture Design, Security and Support (TCADSS) Service. The service will be delivered as an outcome-focused, self-managed capability that assures, designs, delivers, and evolves the ADS Army Cloud and related platforms.
In summary (detailed in Schedule 1), the service will provide:

• Technical Cloud Support Service to deliver ADS Army Cloud initiatives, ensuring provision, management, support, and exploitation of the Army Cloud across public, private, and hybrid cloud environments.

• A Technical Design Office (TDO) Service, acting as the through-life design authority for all ADS-owned systems and services. This will deliver Solution, Security, System, and Platform Architecture functions, ensuring alignment to Enterprise Architecture while providing ongoing assurance, governance, and roadmaps.

• Platform Engineering functions spanning the full development lifecycle, including environment provisioning, CI/CD integration, automation, resilience engineering, and 4th line incident escalation.

• Deployable and Land Systems support, designing and delivering mission-ready, secure, and resilient deployable services for tactical and contested environments.

• Cost Modelling & Compliance Functions, including through-life cost modelling for cloud hosting and design services, Software Asset Management (SAM) design and approach for licence compliance, and platform compliance assessments.

• Security Operations Support, including the design and infrastructure management of the ADS SIEM solution, ensuring integration with the SOC and Land mission systems.

• Enterprise Architecture Tools Management, ensuring ADS architecture artefacts, models, and reference patterns are maintained and integrated within a central repository.

• Innovation & Emerging Technology Advisory, including horizon scanning, R&D proof-of-concepts, and AI initiatives, ensuring ADS can adopt, trial, and exploit new technologies securely and effectively.