Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-10-05
Buyer: Financial Conduct Authority
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 48000000 | 48600000 | 48610000: Database systems | 48611000: Database software package | 48612000: Database-management system
Estimated value: 1200000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-10-29
Award criteria: The most economic tender
EU fund: ESF

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
The FCA is establishing a contractual mechanism to support data management and architecture needs to the FCA for a period of 2 years with the option to extend for additional period of up to 2 years in yearly increments (i.e. 1 + 1 years), this is currently estimated to commence during March 2021. The contract will be owned and managed by the FCA, with provision for it to be used by itself and other authorities. This procurement is comprised of 5 lots.
The key driver for the data management tools is to help deliver the FCA’s vision to ‘harness the power of data and advanced analytics to support our Mission, to make us more efficient and effective, and to ultimately transform how we carry out financial regulation in the UK.’
Lot 1: Data Modelling: the tool must be either a SaaS tool or one which will run in our cloud data-centre and must allow us to produce different types of models:
• Concept Models: the purpose — entity-relationship that conceptualize the FCA (no data attributes for entities);
• Logical Models: the purpose — logical data models (entity-relationship diagrams – entities are attributed);
The contract duration is for 24 months however the FCA reserves the right to extend the duration of this contract for a maximum of 24 months from the expiry of the initial term.
The estimated value of this lot is still to be determined and the overall estimated value for all lots is GBP 1 200 000 excluding VAT.
Lot 2: Data Mapping — a data mapping tool is required by the FCA for the integration of data models. The acquisition of such a tool will provide a new capability for the FCA as previous work has been in spreadsheets conduction manual mapping between pairs of models. The mapping of models through spreadsheets does not provide a wholistic, navigable view of the interrelationships between models so an appropriate tool is required.
• reference models (no underlying IT systems) both internal to the FCA and with external stakeholder organizations;
Some of the models are conceptual models; there is no corresponding IT system and thus no physical repository which could form the basis for a mapping. This highlights the importance of your tool’s ability to import data models held in data modelling tools. Furthermore, it is crucial that we can map data models of our IT systems to our Enterprise Logical Data Model (ELDM). The ELDM is a reference model for the FCA; there is no corresponding IT system. The ELDM is at the heart of our desire to unify our data through the meaning of our data.
The tool should be able to deal with large scale models. The smallest model to be mapped is expected be a dataset definition composed of a single object with circa 50 attributes. The largest model to be mapped is expected to be composed of circa 500 entities where each entity could have up to around 650 attributes. Similarly, the tool should be able to scale in terms of the number of models it can handle. It is currently believed that there will be fewer than 10 large models.
The contract duration is for 24 months however the FCA reserves the right to extend the duration of this contract for a maximum of 24 months from the expiry of the initial term.
The estimated value of this lot is still to be determined and the overall estimated value for all lots is GBP 1 200 000 excluding VAT.
Lot 3: Data Catalogue — the FCA requires a tool that will provide a fully integrated data catalogue to assist users to identify, locate and use data more efficiently and understand the data that already exists within the FCA (including key characteristics pertaining to that data). The FCA expect the Data Catalogue to support implementation of our data governance capability, including, but not limited to:


Award value: 1200000