PRO004552-Services-ITT-Work Package B Journey to Excellence

Tender description

United Utilities is looking to obtain specialist digital skills, bespoke consultancy services, related product services and resources to support the ‘Journey To Excellence’ programme within the Digital Services department. There is a desire for these services to 1.Support the functional capability maturity measurement and associated improvements 2. Delivering specialist and innovative digital skills into Digital Services and the wider UU business 3. Supporting enhanced and innovative digital assurance to underpin the digital strategy 4. Helping to build the capability to capture, process and analyse data to support the UU ‘data as an asset’ approach. Lot 1: Bidders for the provision of Work package B Bidders for a single delivery programme or project. The ITN consists of 4 lots and will be awarded in single lots for a duration of two years with the option for an additional six years of extensions, to be taken 24 months at a time at the discretion of the Company. The Lot structure is as follows: Lot Number Lot Description 1 Capability Maturity - Identify and deliver enhancements to mature core capabilities in accordance with the digital business strategy ambition and Target Operating Model. Providing effective and minimal business impact solutions, through a variety of techniques, processes, tools and software to enable transformation. 2 Data as an Asset - Identify and deliver cost effective and minimal business impact solutions relating to the capture, movement, processing and analysis of data through a variety of techniques, tools, software and hardware. 3 Specialist Digital Skills - Supplement the Company’s resource to support and deliver the strategic direction, enhancement, management and maintenance of the digital capabilities, technology solutions and/or data science. Offering specialist skills, knowledge or business processes aligned to future digital agenda and Industry 5.0. 4 Digital Assurance - Identify and deliver assurance activities to support the digital agenda and business strategy, in technology specialisms, best practice delivery methodology and operational processes. Additional scope details will be provided on a per project basis, as and when the requirements are defined and agreed. There is no limitation to the amount of Lot(s) Applicants can apply for and Bidders are able to win multiple Lots. Each individual Lot shall be awarded to a maximum of four Bidders. . The framework Agreement will run for an initial two (2) year period. On completion of the initial term the Company may grant incremental extensions up to a maximum period of eight (8) years in total. Additional information: This PIN is a request for information only at this stage. A future procurement is planned and we estimate the Contract Notice will be published within the next 3 weeks .