National Grid seeks £5m of external help to become “agile digital” organisation

An engineer stands in one of London’s power tunnels. Credit: National Grid. National Grid is seeking external help in a mission to become a “more agile digital organisation” and plans to go to market in early April with a contract worth up to £5 million – with the energy company seeking a partner (or three) to “help us identify… transformation workstreams, intervention areas, and implementation plan(s)”. The contract will help the company deliver a wide-ranging cultural shift, an early public information notice (PIN) suggests, with the partner setting up and driving a “Digital Agile DevSecOps transformation office.” (DevSecOps refers to development, security, and operations and is an “approach to culture, automation, and platform design that integrates security as a shared responsibility throughout the entire IT lifecycle” as Red Hat puts it crisply. It typically means integrating security earlier and more robustly in application development.) National Grid added in the PIN, published on February 10, that it is looking for “a strategic partner who can support our ambition to become an agile digital organisation. The scope of the engagement will encompass all aspects of organisational transformation workstreams; broadly categorized into People, Process, and Tools.” It anticipates publishing a contract notice […]

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