Software package and information systems

Tender description

The Financial Conduct Authority is seeking to contract with a single entity to deliver a search and discovery capability to the FCA. The contract will cover the following element, details are: 1) provision of the software; 2) implementation of the base functionality in the FCA cloud; 3) assistance with configuration to meet full FCA requirements; 4) provide integration to the FCA's enterprise data platform; 5) transition to support and service model as defined in the requirements. The FCA is seeking to procure a search and discovery solution, which will be hosted in the FCA cloud to deliver the following outcomes. Objective: • Give the entire FCA workforce (to varying degrees) access to market leading capability to exploit (search, discover and gain insight from) the diverse data the FCA have access to: Our search outcomes include: • an enterprise search that empowers users to conduct powerful and rich context searches across a variety of data types held in a number of locations (within the organisation); • the ability to add external sources such as companies house, partner organisation data, open data sets etc.; • the ability to extend and evolve search models over time; • an intuitive means (low entry barrier) through which to identify results beyond a simple search (e.g. visualisation to help interpretation by non-data/intelligence specialists); • a capability that fosters collaboration among colleagues e.g. capturing and sharing insights gleaned between teams; • support the FCA data strategy through the development of new (and leveraging existing) data management collateral within the FCA. our discovery outcomes include: • discovery analytics that provide users with rich context and intelligence within the data e.g. through inexact matching, visualisations, collaboration, notifications, analytics; • the ability to discover new related data sets as part of intelligent searching; • support programming of rules based alerts that indicate cause for concern, e.g. firms exhibiting behaviours FCA deem to be indicators of risk/harm at any given time; • support FCA information security access controls (e.g. ensuring users see what their authorised to, inheriting security profile of source systems); • to enhance the FCA’s capacity to identify and record new risks, and plough these back into training models; • the ability to track provenance (e.g. demonstrating evidence-based decisions, exhibiting diligence in face of external audit). The contract will be to provide the software, implementation/configuration services and to provide additional services related to the delivery of the solution post go live for the duration of the contract. The value of the contract may increase over the term in light of these additional services additional services. Any such modification shall be in the terms of Regulations 72 of the Public Contract Regulations 2015.