C21478 - Data Product Development and Associated Services

The Home Office's Data Services & Analytics (DSA) Unit intends to put in place a new £35m-£40m contract over a 4 year (+ Optional 12 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 Programmes and Specialists (RM6263) Lot 1 - Digital Programmes 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 to be held on the confirmed date of Thursday 30th June (09:30-12:30).

Framework Suppliers interested in attending should express their interest via the link (https://www.techuk.org/what-we-deliver/events/home-office-dsa-market-engagement-event-c21478-data-product-development-and-associated-services.html) by no later than Noon on Wednesday 29th June 2022.

Additional information: The purpose of this notification is to provide the Digital Programmes and Specialists (RM6263) Lot 1 - Digital Programmes Framework Suppliers with early visibility of the requirement.The Home Office will conduct a formal Early Market Engagement (EME) event on Thursday 30th June (09:30-12:30).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.In addition to the event, the Home Office will undertake further EME, via various means including an EME questionnaire) with some, or all Framework Suppliers involved in the process. Note: Framework Suppliers will 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 to be held on the confirmed date of Thursday 30th June (09:30-12:30). Framework Suppliers interested in attending should express their interest via the link (https://www.techuk.org/what-we-deliver/events/home-office-dsa-market-engagement-event-c21478-data-product-development-and-associated-services.html) by no later than Noon on Wednesday 29th June 2022.