Data management services

Tender description

Subject to Contract. The aim of this Prior Information Notice (PIN) is for the Codification Project to conduct an initial market assessment to help inform the Authority’s future strategy as to how best to proceed with the procurement and support of a replacement for the current Codification Information System. Overview: Codification is the process of capturing key data attributes for ‘Items of Supply’ and ‘Items of Production’ used within Defence in a structured and standardised way across multiple systems and with the other NATO members. The project is seeking to procure a proven, NATO-compliant solution/service which supports both: — NATO Specific data — These are agreed under NATO governance and shared with all member nations, — Supply Management Data — Country specific data used to assist in the management and supply of items across the UK’s Defence Support Network. At this stage the project is investigating the opportunity of procuring an end-to-end managed service, including application, hosting and service management, interfaced with existing logistics applications and wider service management arrangements, but may decide to split this requirement into separate lots. Out of scope: The project is only looking at Codification Information Services to support business processes. The Codification activity itself is not covered by this project. A separate Request for Information (RFI) will be issued in due course.