Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2021-05-21
Buyer: Anglian Water Services Ltd
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72200000 | 72300000
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
This is a framework for a digital and data services framework, the scope can be broken down into 2 areas:
Resource Augmentation – providing appropriately skilled resources to work collaboratively within multi party/multi disciplinary teams working to develop information management and governance excellence, innovative, advanced data driven models, algorithms, dashboards and visualisations and implement new business applications, services and associated processes as well as delivering changes to existing applications and associated infrastructure, using the skills and capabilities listed with the documentation and the notice thought Leadership within the areas identified in the documentation and notice.
Anglian Water are procuring a data and digital services framework which encompasses broadly the following requirements:
1) Resource Augmentation – providing appropriately skilled resources to work collaboratively within multi party/multi-disciplinary teams working on areas such as:
— design and delivery of multi-experience solutions (i.e. mobile, PWA, conversational, immersive and wearables);
— devops and scrum agile management and delivery, cloud, hybrid (on-prem-cloud) environments, big data cloud and hybrid infrastructures;
— product style delivery of application capabilities packaged as building blocks for app assembly using agile and develops techniques (i.e. microservice architectures using internal libraries or external marketplaces);
— information governance frameworks (principles, guidelines, policies, processes, standards, roles and metrics);
— data and Digital Literacy including information academy and communities formation and co-ordination;
— information management, search and discovery for all data types i.e. time-series, transactional, structured, unstructured, geospatial;
— analytics and data sciences (including geospatial, IoT, stream and event analytics, structured and unstructured i.e. voice, image, content, etc), NLP, conversational analytics, data modelling, meta and master data management, continuous intelligence;
— data and analytics organisational structure design; Curation of information as an asset; Data driven culture change and data storytelling; Data Ingestion tooling (e.g. Attunity).
2) Thought Leadership within the areas identified above. The framework will consist of Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers, who can meet the requirements, however it should be noted that the skills which are highlighted within the scope of the framework documentation are given as examples of those areas which are currently identified, however it should be noted that given the nature of technology, these are fluid and will evolve throughout the life of the contract as technologies and thought leadership develops. This is a framework agreement, and no guarantee of work or spend is or will be given, and will be used to support and enhance our in-house capabilities.


Winner: Anglian water services