Home Office Data Services & Analytics Market Engagement Event

1.30pm – 3pm 8 July 2024 Online

On Monday 8 July from 13:30 – 15:00, techUK is delighted to be hosting the Home Office’s Data Services & Analytics (DSA) Unit for this online-only market engagement event.

The Home Office’s Data Services & Analytics (DSA) Unit intends to put in place a new contract, with a single Prime Delivery Partner and supporting supply chain that will include SMEs for the provision of Data and Analytics Services.

The contract will run for 48 months with an option to extend by up to 12 months. The indicative value is up to £250m if extended over the full 60 month period. (Note that commitment will be via individual Statements of Work and the stated value should be considered an upper limit).

The purpose of this event is to provide potential Suppliers with early visibility of the requirement, bidding process, and address any initial questions. It is also being designed to encourage prime/SME sub-contracting partnering and provide the opportunity for the market to influence the standards, requirements and measures underpinning the competition.

The requirement will be procured via the Crown Commercial Services (CCS) – Digital Specialists and Programmes (DSP) RM6263 Framework – Lot 1 – Digital Programmes.*Suppliers who are not on the framework, but have an interest in potentially partnering with a DSP, Lot 1 supplier on this procurement, are also welcome to join the session.

The requirement

DSA delivers critical matching, analytic, reporting and insight services across all areas of the Home Office and beyond. DSA currently has several major contracts providing a significant proportion of these services all of whose initial term will end at the end of calendar year 2024 and into 2025. It is anticipated that the extension options available under the contracts will be utilised to allow a gradual transition during 2025.

With the major focus on Data and Analytics as described under the SFIA view, underpinned by the Data related roles described under the latest Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework, the contract is planned to provide data related professions on a resource augmentation basis as well as Data and Analytics outcome based pieces of work. Whilst the majority of roles under the latter will be data and analytics related, in order to deliver outcomes, there will be provision for non-data roles (e.g. delivery, architecture, user centred design, etc.).

In addition, to provide data-related professionals, DSA are looking to the new contract to optimise the end-to-end data pipeline: acquiring data sources, loading them, mapping (generally to a Person, Object, Location, Event [POLE] model), matching, enriching, etc. The prime will take accountability for end-to-end delivery but it is planned that specialist Suppliers and SMEs will take responsibility for pipeline components and deliver in alignment with the HO DDaT Strategy.

DSA is looking to increase leverage of native cloud services and enterprise capabilities to expedite delivery, making use of recent developments in analytical techniques (e.g. machine learning and AI) to automate manual data pipeline processes and build trusted, secure data services, using the CDDO Data ethics framework.

DSA is also looking to the new contract to improve performance, metrics and transparency, improve pipeline quality, ensure consistent availability of appropriately skilled professionals, and gain access to specialist SME capability.

The Home Office may undertake further EME, via various means (e.g. meetings, questionnaires) with some, or all Suppliers involved in the process.

Please note that participation, or non-participation in this EME event will not influence or restrict your ability to take part in the further competition.

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