{"id":80561,"date":"2017-04-07T13:04:14","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T13:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=5cbbf42dc8a0bcc5009538eceff1c710"},"modified":"2017-04-07T13:04:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T13:04:14","slug":"news-story-new-quality-and-assurance-framework-open-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=80561","title":{"rendered":"News story: New Quality and Assurance framework open now"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Crown Commercial Service is helping the public sector to test the quality of IT services with a new framework agreement, developed in partnership with the Home Office.<\/p>\n<p>Quality and Assurance Testing is <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/ccs-agreements.cabinetoffice.gov.uk\/node\/6872\/revisions\/32152\/view\">live now<\/a>, and gives central government and the wider public sector access to pre-evaluated suppliers of IT testing services.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 42 suppliers on the framework, 26 (62%) are small and medium-sized enterprises.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"what-is-the-framework-for\">What is the framework for?<\/h2>\n<p>If you\u2019re designing and\/or building a digital requirement or cloud service integration, you may need independent, specialist quality assurance and\/or testing before you go live to ensure a smooth implementation.<\/p>\n<p>The new agreement complements other <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/ccs-agreements.cabinetoffice.gov.uk\/procurement-pipeline\/digital-future\">digital agreements<\/a>  such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Digital Outcomes and Specialists (DOS)<\/li>\n<li>G-Cloud<\/li>\n<li>Cyber Security Services<\/li>\n<li>Crown Hosting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The services available will support testing functionality, usability and performance using independent specialist service expertise.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"what-is-on-offer\">What is on offer?<\/h2>\n<p>Buyers can choose from one of four flexible mini competition options, to select their supplier to deliver a wide range of testing and quality assurance services.<\/p>\n<p>Services available under the new agreement are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lot 1: Quality Assurance and Testing Specialists<\/li>\n<li>Lot 2: Automation, Agile and Development Opportunities<\/li>\n<li>Lot 3: Load and Performance Testing<\/li>\n<li>Lot 4: Functional Testing<\/li>\n<li>Lot 5: Infrastructure Testing and Environments<\/li>\n<li>Lot 6: Operational Acceptance Testing and Disaster Recovery<\/li>\n<li>Lot 7: Quality Assurance and Testing Management<\/li>\n<li>Lot 8: Strategic Quality Assurance Consultancy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"buyer-confidence\">Buyer Confidence<\/h2>\n<p>Only Suppliers who have passed the Home Office\u2019s robust evaluation will be able to bid for work under the agreement, giving you an extra level of reassurance.<\/p>\n<p>All Suppliers on this agreement have signed up to government terms and conditions, making tendering simple and effective.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"want-to-know-more\">Want to know more?<\/h2>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/forms\/azgaBiVShxSdcb8x1\">Complete the online form<\/a> to register your interest in the Quality Assurance and Testing for IT Systems agreement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crown Commercial Service and the Home Office have launched a new IT Quality and Assurance framework for the public sector<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}