QU493 - Smart city maturity assessment and Roadmap development

The Council recognises the importance of digital technologies in developing its economic recovery plans and enabling digital transformation of council services.

It believes that it could have a multifaceted role in influencing and shaping City developments, projects and programmes that will enable the City to be established as a leading digital city on the global stage.

Therefore it is developing a Digital City workstream as part of its Digital Birmingham brand as an opportunity to address city-wide challenges, and also to create the future proof infrastructure and necessary conditions and ecosystems to enable the City to achieve its strategic outcomes.

It aims to collaborate and consult with city partners and stakeholders to establish an evidence-based understanding of its current digital and smart city levels of maturity benchmarked against the world's leading cities and then use this as a basis for developing a robust Roadmap of deliverable and prioritised projects and programmes that would enable it to achieve the following outcomes; (i) Birmingham is a recognised leading digital city under the Digital Birmingham brand (ii) Birmingham is a preferred place of choice for digital innovation, (iii) Increased levels of digital investment are attracted to the city, (iv) Council services are utilising new technologies and innovative solutions, The successful supplier(s) will be expected to use their knowledge and expertise to deliver the following outputs; (i) Output 1 - Stakeholder Engagement (ii) Output 2 - Smart city maturity assessment benchmarked against the leading digital cities across the world (iii) Output 3 - A phased Roadmap setting out the projects and programmes deliverable over the short term and an outline of long term projects and programmes required over the long term (iv) Output 4 - A recommended digital city governance structure aligned to existing City Governance (v) Ways of Working and delivery of Outputs It is intended that the contract will be for a period of 3 months commencing no later than 21/07/2021 until 21/10/2021.

The contract is a fixed term contract with defined outcomes to deliver.

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