Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-12-24
Buyer: SSE Services Plc
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 72600000
Estimated value: 50000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2021-02-01
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The authority intends to award a number of framework agreements for digital specialist suppliers across the SSE Group, these will be placed against eight defined lots, (customer channels and data integration x 3; data and analytics x 3; enterprise systems x 2 as described in the Procurement documents), with three frameworks awarded per lot. For the avoidance of doubt the resulting Frameworks will be made available to all of SSE Group.
• to enable Authorities interaction with its customers and delivery partners through a predominantly digital channel. Such interactions may require access to data from either source systems, or the respective business unit’s data hub;
• to develop business customer facing applications along with data integration and where necessary aggregation to support delivery of an effective and efficient collaborative experience.
Typically, delivery will follow an Agile methodology, however other development approaches may be applied. Similarly, change may be delivered within a project, programme or portfolio construct.
• to build upon the already established Azure data lake, following a standards led approach to securely exposing sub-sets of that data to customers, business partners and internal teams;
• to support the enriching of data sets from source systems using advanced analytics to maximise business value and performance.
Typically, delivery will follow an Agile methodology, however other development approaches may be applied. Similarly, change may be delivered within a project, programme or portfolio construct.
• to support the introduction and development of enterprise scale systems where economic do so, for example in areas such as Asset & Inventory Management and GIS;
• to support those systems development, upgrade and integration ensuring maximum value is gained from those systems whilst following the Authority no/minimal customisations policy,
Typically, delivery will follow an Agile methodology, however other development approaches may be applied. Similarly, change may be delivered within a project, programme or portfolio construct.
• to enable Authorities interaction with its customers and delivery partners through a predominantly digital channel. Such interactions may require access to data from either source systems, or the respective business unit’s data hub;
• to develop business customer facing applications along with data integration and where necessary aggregation to support delivery of an effective and efficient collaborative experience.
Typically, delivery will follow an Agile methodology, however other development approaches may be applied. Similarly, change may be delivered within a project, programme or portfolio construct.
• to build upon the already established Azure data lake, following a standards led approach to securely exposing sub-sets of that data to customers, business partners and internal teams;
• to support the enriching of data sets from source systems using advanced analytics to maximise business value and performance;

Eligibility requirements: Conditions are stated in the pre qualification questionnaire which can be requested by emailing: Digitalsolutionsspecialistframeworks@sse.com

Award value: 50000000