IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

Tender description

Hull City Council is seeking tenders from suitably qualified organisations for the supply, installation, integration and maintenance of an Integrated Smart City Platform (ISCP) with consultancy support for itself and on behalf of other Contracting Authorities. Hull City Council seeks a proposal from the interested bidder to bid for project start by 1.3.2019. The length of this contract will be 7 years, with the possibility of extension for 3 more years. The key objective is to design, implement and support an integrated platform that can bring together a wide range of current and future smart solutions and datasets. This data will come from a variety of different sources so that the data needs to be assimilated and analysed on a single platform; consequently resulting in aggregated and combined city level information. Further, this city level information can be converted to actionable intelligence, which will be transferred to relevant services, stakeholders and citizens. The Council wishes to procure an integrated Smart City Platform to gather data that can be analysed and used to promote a better quality of life for residents and gain a variety of operational efficiencies for the Council. Hulls ambition is to become a reference City for Smart City solutions and Internet of Things (IOTs) developments. This Integrated Smart City Platform (ISCP), which is the focus of the procurement, will be the horizontal foundation software platform for integrating, transforming, managing and analysing the data used to control the vertical services and solutions. The platform will analyse and aggregate data from a wide range of devices including sensors, actuators, mobile devices, cameras and line of business 3rd party systems. This data will be combined to provide smart, automated and responsive actions based on artificial intelligence (A.I), prebuilt policies and algorithms that can identify, predict and respond to situations in real time. e.g. adjusting the brightness of street lights based on volume of pedestrians or traffic light controls based on the flows of traffic. The platform will provide secure and safe access to partner organisations and provide public-facing applications to enable city data to be used to make better, more informed decisions in real-time. The Public Sector in Hull already manages large volumes of data. However, until recently data has been managed in silos. Through this project Hull is looking to greatly improve how it uses this valuable resource by bringing the disparate sets of data together, enhancing and enriching it with supplementary data, to a number of systems and solutions in place that provide data and controls for a wide range of City wide functions, these include road traffic signals, car parking, city centre LED lighting, CCTV and traffic monitoring through Mobile phone data. The services to be procured will be made available to other public sector bodies and the Transport for the North authorities.