PU-17/0100 - Address Index

Tender description

Why the Work is Being Done The Address Index being developed under this beta will be used to underpin the 2021 census and statistical work across ONS. The development is of an address referencing service and includes tools to manage and match complex address data. We estimate the development to deliver the Minimum Viable Product will be around 6 months. Problem to Be Solved Tools to allow management and matching of address data; building a matching & querying service; (controlled) access to stored address data and the matching service via an API Gateway, expanding the use of the index to include attribute data (information about each address), linking to Business Index data. Who Are the Users Users are initially ONS business areas including census - but options for wider use of the service by other government departments are being investigated. Users will be able match individual addresses and batches of addresses as well as extract samples and frames from the data store. Early Market Engagement n/a Work Already Done The Address Index is now moving into Beta Phase. During Discovery and Alpha we have delivered an agreed technical stack and built functional products around query and matching using multiple data sources. Existing Team The team will work with a range of internal product managers who are subject matter experts in index and register development. Currently the team has been assigned an ONS Delivery Manager and an ONS Business Analyst to work alongside the supplier, it is envisaged that two ONS Software engineers will be assigned in August to work alongside the supplier. Current Phase Alpha Work Location The Address Index staff will be located in our Titchfield Office in Fareham Hampshire. It is expected the team will be co-located at this location but willing to travel between our Titchfield and Newport (Wales) locations and potentially other governments departments as required. Working Arrangments The team will be expected to work alongside internal resource to build and develop the required products. Integrated into the supplier agreement will be a knowledge transfer during the transition to a more permanent operating model. The teams will be co-located and expected to work on-site for a five day working week with some flexibility built in for travel arrangements. The teams will be expected to work within an Agile Delivery environment and be able to coach and mentor internal staff. Security Clearance All members of the supplier team must be SC Cleared to the required Civil Service Standard prior to commencing contractual work. Additional T&Cs Skills & Experience Expertise in Agile/Scrum/Kanban = 2 points Expertise in Full Cloudera Stack = 2 Points Expertise in SQL/NoSQL databases (data matching expertise) = 2 points Expertise in Restful API's(inc: security functional and non-functional requirements) = 2 points Elastic Search/Matching expertise (preferably on addresses) = 3 points Expertise of developing in Address/Data Engineering and Data Management Services = 2 points Expertise in Cloud Foundry (Scala,Python,Play,Selenium/BOSH/Manifest or docker) = 3 points Github experience = 1 points Experience of working in sensitive data environment = 2 points Experience in set up, configure and build images = 2 points Development & transformation experience in digital service in 'brownfield' & 'greenfield' estates = 2 points Expertise in Data/Security IT Architecture (both solution and technically focused) = 3 points Experience in automation testing environments & continuous integration & deployment (Jenkins) = 2 points Expert in SOA and mircro services = 2 points Expert in Performance and operating metrics on product service = 2 points Nice to Haves Experience of the GDS Service Manual = 1 point Experience of working across government agencies = 1 point Security knowledge of Cloud Foundry on AWS or local tin = 1 point No. of Suppliers to Evaluate 3 Proposal Criteria Technical Solutions = 5 points Approach & Methodology = 5 points Approach or solution meets user needs = 5 points How the approach or solution meets the organisation policy or goal = 2 points Estimated timeframes = 2 points Identify risks and dependencies, approaches to manage them = 2 points Team Structure = 2 points Value for Money = 2 points Cultural Fit Criteria Work as a team with our organisation and other suppliers = 5 points Transparent & Collaborative when making decision = 5 points Have the user and customer needs at the core of decision making = 5 points No blame culture and encourage people to learn from their mistakes = 5 points Payment Approach Time and materials Assessment Method Written proposal Case study Work history Reference Presentation Evaluation Weighting Technical competence 60% Cultural fit 20% Price 20% Questions from Suppliers Budget range