Published date: 10 March 2016

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 21 March 2016

Contract summary

Industry

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

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£15,000 to £20,000

Procurement reference

ORR/CT/15-75

Published date

10 March 2016

Closing date

21 March 2016

Contract start date

4 April 2016

Contract end date

29 April 2016

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Not applicable

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The Information and Analysis Team consists of 13 members has responsibility for the collation and preparation of rail data and the transformation of that data into meaningful business intelligence. This is currently being achieved primarily through the Data Warehouse (known as ORRbit) and the dissemination of rail statistics, to the general public via the Data Portal (http://dataportal.orr.gov.uk) and to internal users of data through dynamic Excel-based dashboards
The aim of this consultancy is for ORR to be presented with a range of IT solutions, outlining advantages and disadvantages of each that will address known limitations in the current processes. This will be expected to cover receipt of incoming data, through data loading (ETL) and data validation, to the subsequent report building and dissemination of data to both internal and external audiences.

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Supplier should register their interest on ORR's eTendering portal as early as practical as all further communications, including the submission of clarification questions must be made via the portal. Joining instructions are attached to this notice.

All bids must also be uploaded on to the portal no later than the time and date shown in the ITT.

About the buyer

Contact name

peter gamble

Address

One Kemble Street
London
WC2B 4AN
England

Email

peter.gamble@orr.gsi.gov.uk