Public procurement notice: Periodic Indicative Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2018-06-13
Buyer: Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 48000000 | 48810000: Information systems | 72000000 | 72220000: Systems and technical consultancy services | 72222000: Information systems strategic planning services

Technical requirements: There is a requirement within Network Rail (NR) to more effectively manage information sustainably at an enterprise level. At present, populating an Information Asset Register (IAR) or an Information Catalog at an enterprise level is estimated to be highly manual and time consuming. Therefore NR is keen to have a solution to effectively identify and manage key information assets across the organisation.
Data mining tools that analyse various types of data (structured and unstructured) and automatically classify the data are available and could potentially be used to populate and maintain Network Rail’s IAR. This would allow NR to understand what data exists across the organisation and enable NR to be compliant to regulations, such as GDPR.
The aim of the event is to better understand what the market has to offer in this area, so that Network Rail can better understand and articulate their requirements.
— be able to handle all types of data (structured and unstructured) while discovering potential information assets,
— be able to identify data / information lineage. Identify the source, the areas where the information is subsequently used. This will help in managing data sprawl,
— allow for manual entries of specific information types and should be able to assign ownership for each confirmed information asset within the register,
— allow for data stewards / related personnel to modify the characteristics of the information asset with respect to data quality, security and accessibility attributes,
— automatically — based on periodic configuration - be able to scan data repositories and update the IAR and highlight changes,
— be able to scan data in a distributed network topology, e.g. MS Azure, AWS, multiple NR private and public data centres where XaaS have a footprint.
— demonstrate that they have suitable and sufficient experience in enterprise information management products,
— design and delivery of Artificial Intelligence IT solutions including metadata identification within both cloud and non-cloud environments,
Network Rail will be holding a Discovery Day and Network Rail will notify interested suppliers of this in due course. The aim of the Discovery Day is for interested parties to engage with Network Rail and present their views and potential solutions to this problem.
Organisations wishing to express interest should register their interest in the first instance by providing the following information, via email, to the buyers email address listed and provide the following information.
Suppliers who are interested in this opportunity will also need to register on the Network Rail Technology Supplier Qualification System. This can be done via the opportunity listing for the SQS via the BravoNR homepage (prior to logging in / registration) at https://networkrail.bravosolution.co.uk and choose Software as a Service as a category.
Any discussions which do occur will cease immediately should a formal competition ultimately be announced. Network Rail is committed to ensuring fairness, openness and transparency, and to following EU procurement regulations. The Periodic Indicative Notice is issued solely for the purpose of conducting pre-procurement market engagement and does not constitute any commitment to undertake any procurement in the future. Interested parties will not be prejudiced by any response or failure to respond to the PIN event and a response to this PIN does not guarantee any invitation to participate in this event or any future procurement.