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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Department for Education

IT Research and Advisory Services

IT ServicesCPV 72000000
Value£197k
Awarded4 Nov 2024
Published25 Nov 2024
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£197ktotal contract value
median £120k
this tender£0£3.5m

This sits in the upper-middle of the IT Services band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 36,449 valued IT Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

There is a requirement within the Technology Architecture team for access to an IT research and advisory subscription service, which will be used to provide the following benefits for DfE: Access to Latest Research, Trends and Innovations: Up to date expert knowledge regarding the latest industry research, trends and advancements.

Unbiased Perspectives: Neutral viewpoints, helping to challenge internal assumptions and identify new opportunities.

Specialised Expertise: Deep technical product and service knowledge and experience.

Enhanced Strategic Planning: Access to frameworks and methodologies, to support and enhance coherent strategic planning.

Objective Analysis: Expertise providing objective analysis of the Department's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, leading to more balanced and informed strategic decisions.

These services do not currently exist within DfE.

This introduces a risk to the DfE's ability to make high quality technology delivery, product and service decisions for the betterment of the DfE overall.

To alleviate this risk this case seeks to import outside expert opinion on all aspects of operating technology in professional, mature organisations including what technologies should be employed and how technologies should be employed.

The service is obtained through procurement of a licence to access a subscription service.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

There is a requirement within the Technology

There is a requirement within the Technology Architecture team for access to an IT research and advisory subscription service, which will be used to provide the following benefits for DfE:.

02

Enhanced Strategic Planning: Access to frameworks

Enhanced Strategic Planning: Access to frameworks and methodologies, to support and enhance coherent strategic planning.

03

To alleviate this risk this case seeks

To alleviate this risk this case seeks to import outside expert opinion on all aspects of operating technology in professional, mature organisations including what technologies should be employed and how technologies should be employed.

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