The purpose of this Prior Information Notice is to alert interested parties that HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) are considering tendering for a partner to work alongside internal technical specialists in the development of a web data analysis skills capability to enhance risking and compliance activity.

HMRC is the UK's tax authority.

HMRC's objectives are to bring in the maximum amount of tax owed to the Exchequer and bear down on avoidance and evasion; transform tax and payments for our customers; and design and deliver a professional, efficient and engaged organisation.

To assist HMRC to bring in the tax owed, we are seeking support from an external partner for the development of a web data analysis skills capability solution that will be able to deploy a range of data analysis skills and analytical tradecraft to maximise exploitation of web/open source data to the same level as private/commercial sectors.

The external partner must have recent relevant experience of delivering web data analysis skills capability on three major projects of similar scale for other organisations.

The contractor must provide analytical personnel, including a senior person who will direct activities and monitor/report on progress, with the necessary skills, knowledge and experience to deliver web data analysis skills capability solution and provide HMRC staff with the knowledge, skills and technical documentation to operate, modify, adapt and further develop the skills development solution without on-going support.

The contractor must use a partner approach to support HMRC to develop web data analytical skills capability alongside its own technical specialists.

The solution must be developed in a manner that will allow it to be readily integrated into and used on HMRC's existing business processes.

The delivery of the solution must be complete by 31 March 2018.

During the development the partner will be required to work in an agile and flexible manner, including working on HMRC premises at the appropriate times, to facilitate a 'knowledge transfer' approach to provide our staff with the knowledge, skills and technical documentation needed to iterate and adjust the web data analysis skills capability solution with little or no ongoing support.

A requirement will be for HMRC to own the Intellectual Property Rights for the web data analysis skills capability solution and all documentation and supporting materials produced for the purpose.

As part of a market engagement process HMRC intend to hold a supplier day on 31st July 2017 in London to present an overview of the outcomes required from the web analytical solution.

Interested parties wishing to attend the supplier day will need to register via the eSourcing portal, which will also be used to post further information.

Full details about the registration process are provided in the additional section below.

In addition to an open forum Q&A session on the day.