Published date: 22 August 2018

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


Closing: 25 June 2018

Contract summary

Industry

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

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£2,000,000

Procurement reference

RD1001509

Published date

22 August 2018

Closing date

25 June 2018

Contract start date

3 August 2018

Contract end date

31 July 2019

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?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Overview:
Data is vital to the DfE achieving its overall vision of improving educational outcomes.

Across DfE there are a number of different systems for data providers to send this data to us. These date back many years; involve business processes which are manually intensive and that by nature incur ongoing risks to data quality.

We want to:

• reduce the burden placed on data providers when it comes to move data;
• streamline our data collection processes;
• improve the DfE's evidence base to enable more effective policy making;
• spot warning signs more readily; and
• provide better, more timely benchmarking information.

Aims:
The project aims to align our data capture functions and provide modern, automated, joined-up services that provide a consistent user experience for sending data to us in a flexible and scalable way; addressing

• data is not always of good enough quality when it first moves
• data does not enable early detection of issues and quick decision making
• collecting and validating data takes too long and involves significant manual effort within the sector and across DfE
• there are inconsistencies between data in school systems and DfE systems
• feedback and reports from data take too long to be of maximum use to schools

Key stakeholders:
Data Providers including schools, LAs, MATs that have responsibilities to provide data to DfE throughout the year. There are around 90 different data collections ranging from small-scale collections through to the termly school census.

Suppliers of systems across the sector who support data providers return data to DfE.

DfE use the data to assist delivery, assess progress, inform decisions and to evidence that the Department is achieving its ambitions.

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Award information

Awarded date

1 August 2018

Contract start date

3 August 2018

Contract end date

31 July 2019

Total value of contract

£2,000,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Capgemini UK Plc

Address

1 Forge End
Woking
Surrey
GU21 6DB

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Address

Bishopsgate House, Feethams,
Darlington
DL1 5QE
England

Email

Karen.Hall@education.gov.uk