C21478 - Data Product Development and Associated Services

The Home Office's Data Services & Analytics (DSA) Unit intends to put in place a new £10m-£15m contract over a 2 year (+ Optional 6 months extension) term, with a single Service Provider for the provision of end-to-end Data Product Development and Associated Services across DSA's current and future portfolio of products and customers.

DSA products are growing in their uptake and business-criticality. They are all at various stages of maturity and are becoming more reusable, with more shared code, and are becoming more able to serve multiple Home Office customers rather than single business areas. Thus, there is a need to grow and mature existing products and to build on the development work done already to deliver new products and services to the wider Home Office.

The Service Provider will be required to provide product team(s) that can deliver new products and enhance existing products. They will be proficient with cloud-based technologies, building and using data pipelines and large data sets, using Agile methodologies, and will also provide third-line support and DevOps product support.

The Home Office intends to conduct a formal Early Market Engagement (EME) event with Digital Outcomes and Specialists 5 (DoS 5) Lot 1 - Digital Outcomes Framework Suppliers.

The event will.

• Provide suppliers with an overview of the requirement, bidding process and aim to address any initial questions.

• Be held remotely via MS Teams or other similar method.

The EME event is expected to be held week commencing 25th October 2021, with a provisional date of Wednesday 27th October (PM) currently scheduled.

Framework Suppliers interested in attending should express their interest via email to [email protected] by no later than Noon on Friday 22nd October 2021.

Additional information: The purpose of this notification is to provide the Digital Outcomes and Specialists 5 (DoS 5) Lot 1 - Digital Outcomes Framework Suppliers with early visibility of the requirement. The Home Office intends to conduct a formal Early Market Engagement (EME) event week commencing 25th October 2021, with a provisional date of Wednesday 27th October 2021 (PM) currently scheduled (TBC). The event will.• Provide suppliers with an overview of the requirement, bidding process and aim to address any initial questions.• Be held remotely via MS Teams or other similar method.Following the event, the Home Office may undertake further EME, via various means (e.g. meetings, questionnaires) with some, or all Framework Suppliers involved in the process. Note: Framework Suppliers may be required to complete a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA).The Home Office reserves the right to change the scope of this notification prior to issuing a notice of the Further Competition; including but not limited to the contract scope, duration, and indicative value. Please note that participation or non-participation in this EME event will not influence or restrict Framework Suppliers from taking part in any resulting Further Competition.Registering to participate in the EME Event:The EME event is expected to be held week commencing 25th October 2021, with a provisional date of Wednesday 27th October (PM) currently scheduled. Framework Suppliers interested in attending should express their interest via email to [email protected] by no later than Noon on Friday 22nd October 2021.