Published date: 2 August 2021

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 23 June 2021, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support - 72000000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£494,460

Procurement reference

tender_276290/984498

Published date

2 August 2021

Closing date

23 June 2021

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

28 June 2021

Contract end date

27 June 2022

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Call-off from a framework agreement

A mini-competition or direct purchase from a pre-established framework agreement.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

D&A/DaaS have provisioned a combination of both raw and derived benefit data products, supporting both analytics and statistical publications for over 20 years.
A number of those products, including National Benefits Database (NBD) have been around for the whole of that time.
The AC/Client Stats have for a number of years identified the increasing technical debt, gaps and flaws within those products, and as a result have previously raised requests to address and/or modernise those products, which have not been ac-tioned/delivered.
The need for a better approach to servicing cross benefit data products is also seen in key user stories for consumers such as Citizen Event Store, RIS, Centric, ONS and others.
Business Problem:
The technical debt and flaws in the NBD product, and especially the gaps in ena-bling the pipeline of new services to flow into it, i.e. PIP, UC, GYSP etc, has forced multiple bespoke approaches to be taken across user communities to solve under-lying problems.
This both increases storage cost and develop/maintain resource consumption as well as leading to potential for inconsistency, and an overarching proliferation of data not compliant with GDPR.
There is poor knowledge of how NBD was built and the underlying business logic that drives how the data is shaped.
The engineering process is complex and inefficient, and therefore costly to simply update to address key gaps.

Please note:
Initial work was for Discovery Phase, this work has now concluded and all documentation from that activity is available for review by the incoming G-Cloud company as it will form part of the work and potential solution that we want delivering in 2021/22.

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Award information

Awarded date

28 June 2021

Contract start date

28 June 2021

Contract end date

27 June 2022

Total value of contract

£494,460

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

methods

Address

80 George Street Edinburgh EH2 3BU

Reference

Companies House number: 2485577

Supplier is SME?

Yes

Supplier is VCSE?

Yes

About the buyer

Address

Quarry House, Quarry Hill
Leeds
LS2 3UA
England

Telephone

1

Email

PeelPark.DataandAnalyticsCommercialTeam@dwp.gov.uk