PU-17/0383 - Customise My Data (beta)

Tender description

Why the Work is Being Done This work will deliver a beta phase to take the work done in Alpha and expand it into a stable and performant system. The system will be ready to be put into full operational service by the end of the beta. The beta will be part of the ONS website and API and this work will have to integrate everything that it does with the current ONS website and API. It will also support the full variety of datasets and supporting metadata that ONS produces. Problem to Be Solved We currently have no means of allowing users of the ONS website to navigate through data to choose data to download. The only option open to users is to download all data. This causes issues with publishing data in a number of areas, most noticeably with data that use geographical hierarchies. The 2016 customer satisfaction survey showed this to be a major cause of user dissatisfaction with the current website. This work will cover the provision of a system to ingest the data/metadata internally as well as the publishing of this data on the website and API. Who Are the Users As an ONS website or API user I need to find data and metadata and customise it so that I can download data that meets my needs. [This epic would include "As an ONS website or API user I need to find data and metadata and customise it to consist of data relating to geographic areas so that I can download data and metadata that meets my needs."] A full set of epics for the beta will be made available at the next stage of this process. Early Market Engagement n/a Work Already Done Alpha phase due to finish March 2017 (Alpha requirements https://www.digitalmarketplace.service.gov.uk/digital-outcomes-and-specialists/opportunities/798) The Alpha will prove the ability to load a representative selection of datasets into our (cloud) infrastructure and make them available to end users of the ONS website. Users will be able to navigate through and select dimensions (including geographical dimensions) of these datasets and to download their selected data. The dataset will also be available through the API. Alpha work available on GitHub here: https://onsdigital.github.io/dp-prototypes/ and repos prefixed with dp-hyhpen at https://github.com/onsdigital Existing Team The supplier team will be working as part of an in-house multi-disciplinary team who have end-to-end responsibility for the ONS website and publishing platform. Current Phase Alpha Work Location Office for National Statistics, Government Buildings, Cardiff Road, Newport, NP10 8XG Working Arrangments The team is expected to be on-site and co-located with the in-house team. Security Clearance All team members must be in possession of a current Disclosure Scotland clearance prior to starting contractual work. Additional T&Cs Standard Framework Ts and Cs Skills & Experience Expert in delivery of solutions that utilise micro services (2 points) Expertise in development/delivery using PaaS, Go and Java (2 points) Expertise in development using event driven architecture (e.g. Kafka and RabbitMQ) (2 points) Expertise in the design and delivery of internal and public facing RESTful APIs (inc: security reqs) and use of appropriate tooling such as Swagger (2 points) Expert in cloud technologies: design, planning. security, integration, whilst remaining Cloud provider agnostic (2 points) Experience in relational and non-relational databases in multiple formats (2 points) Experience in using automated (testing) environments and continuous integration, delivery & deployment, particularly GitHub and Jenkins/Concourse (2 points) Expertise in Agile delivery as outlined in the Government Service Design Manual using BDD and TDD as well as iterating on the outputs from user research (2 points) Experience of delivery in Data Architecture Services, especially in a sensitive data environment (2 points) Demonstrable experience of providing the training, coaching and assurance necessary to develop relationships and manage phased handover to an internal team (2 points) Experience in performance testing and tuning cloud based services and databases for optimum performance (2 points) Able to respond to, prioritise and resolve incidents on the service during normal working hours (1 point) Expertise in delivering services that follow GDS design patterns (as laid out in the Service Standard) a mobile first design approach, meeting accessibility standards (2 points) Nice to Haves Experience of working across government agencies (1 point) Knowledge of working with geographic data (1 point) Experience of working with 'linked data' technologies (i.e. triple stores, GraphDB, SPARQL) (1 point) No. of Suppliers to Evaluate 3 Proposal Criteria Technical Solutions (7 points) Approach and methodology (7 points) How you ensure the product meets user needs (7 points) Team structure and cultural integration (7 points) Value for money (4 points) Cultural Fit Criteria Work with existing staff within our organisation (4 points) Be transparent and collaborative when making decision (4 points) Have the website and API user and ONS needs at the core of decision making (4 points) No blame culture and encourage people to learn from their mistakes (4 points) Skills and knowledge transfer and coaching/mentoring of team members (4 points) Payment Approach Capped time and materials Assessment Method Written proposal Case study Work history Presentation Evaluation Weighting Technical competence 60% Cultural fit 20% Price 20% Questions from Suppliers Budget range n/a