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

Digital Interviewing is used by the Home Office Visas & Immigration Directorate to gather additional information to support a visa application or asylum claim.

Interviews are currently carried out in-person and as remote interviews (via telephone or video links).

Other areas of the Home Office also use interviewing to different extents.

The core components of the project include: • Digital Audio Recording Software; Capture the audio from all participants whether they are present in the host room or joining remotely via MS Teams.

It will allow control of the audio (e.g. pause) during the interview and will link to the Interview Record Forms software. • Interview Records Software: Capture typed information during the interview in relation to the interview including information about the interview, the participants and the questions, statements and response made during the interview. • Cloud Hosted Storage: The audio record and the interview record forms will be saved and stored to cloud-hosted storage on completion of the interview or, if offline, when later connected to the network • Management Information: The solution must provide reports of all digital interviews undertaken with filtering and sorting by all metadata data captured during interviewing and any automatically applied grouped by business area/team responsible. • RBAC: The solution shall have Role-based User Access Control which will allow specific user roles to be defined - each with a specific set of permissions within the system • Auto Transcription: Provision of automated transcripts from the recorded interview audio including all audio spoken during the interview in the English language only.