Outsource Software company to produce a POC and then maintain and build the software

Background My client who is based in London, UK has developed an automation testing tool web application in Java with a front end using Google Web Toolkit to test a FX trading system. The client would like to outsource the development to an enthusiastic and motivated team. Technologies Java, jboss, GWT, activeMQ, maven, SVN, jenkins, JMS, jUnit, XML, Oracle Database, linux, windows Sectors: Investment banking, testing and quality assurance, automation tools, Methodology Agile Proof of concept requirements- 2 weeks to take the code base and executables ( I will provide basic technical documents) to understand the code to start it up and make small changes demonstrate the application back to the client - this will give you credibility to start the website and services and demonstrate to operation to the client to make a change to the front end web application and demonstrate the change to the client to demonstrate your development process e.g. agile, svn usage, maven, jenkins to the client Conclusion: If you are successful with the POC then you will win a 6 months contract to maintain the software What I need from the outsource partner? NDA signed idea of team size and costs the above POC requirements met demonstration that you can work professionally Ask questions demonstrates good communications Future requirements: re-factor some of the code consider replacing GWT with Java Swing based front end to make the application stable - connections are dropping and requires frequent restart to produce a test harness and CI environment simplify/standardise the installation and starting/stopping of services. Productise the application To enable web access to the application ( currently only runs as localhost) To build another system/agent that the automation tool can connect with.