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How can technology enable us to collect, measure, analyse, and report evidence to demonstrate impact?

SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT

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Award

10 Sep 2024 at 08:12

Tender

22 Nov 2021 at 14:24

Summary of the contracting process

The Scottish Government, located in Glasgow, United Kingdom, is seeking IT services to enhance its capability in collecting, measuring, analysing, and reporting evidence to demonstrate the impact of various projects. The procurement falls under the services category and specifically pertains to IT consulting, software development, Internet, and support. This tender process, identified as OCDS-h6vhtk-02f8e4, is in the 'Award' stage, with a contract awarded on 3rd October 2022 to PortF.io for a value of £104,000. The project aims to create a streamlined and user-friendly solution for predicting and tracking the impacts of public, third, and private sector initiatives, providing economic, societal, cultural, and environmental benefits. The initiative is part of CivTech, a programme by the Scottish Government’s Digital Directorate, and seeks innovative solutions from smaller businesses to enhance public services and stimulate the Scottish economy.

This tender represents an exceptional opportunity for businesses involved in IT services and project management consultancy. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with expertise in technology and innovation stand to benefit greatly, as CivTech deliberately ensures that a significant portion of its technology expenditure is directed toward SMEs. The CivTech Innovation Flow model encourages the rapid development of practical and impactful products through collaborative public-private partnerships. Winners of this challenge will have the opportunity to secure further contracts, dependent on the success of the Minimum Viable Product and additional funding. This initiative not only promises business growth but also the potential to expand solutions on a global scale, as many challenges addressed by CivTech are universally relevant.

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Notice Title

How can technology enable us to collect, measure, analyse, and report evidence to demonstrate impact?

Notice Description

Across the public, third and private sectors, organisations and programmes need to model the impacts of projects being considered, and once projects are operational to evidence the actual impacts they make. This is required because establishing those impacts, and the resulting value for money are key requirements for all initiatives, large or small. Organisations and programmes are often multi-sector and multi-disciplinary, with a rich breadth of primary and secondary outcomes across a wide range of areas including economic, societal, cultural and environmental benefits. This Challenge seeks a robust, streamlined and user friendly way that enables us to predict impact when planning future projects, and then track the developing outputs and outcomes to evidence and demonstrate the full 'in the round' impact. Please visit our website for information on CivTech, this Challenge, and how to get involved: https://www.civtechalliance.org/civtech-innovation-flow https://www.civtechalliance.org/civtech-6-sprint-evidence-to-deliver-impact

Lot Information

Lot 1

CivTech's mission is to drive daring and innovation in the public sector by collaboratively solving challenges that make people's lives better - and in doing so create generations of sustainable, high growth businesses. CivTech brings together public sector expertise and private sector innovation to solve real problems, develop new products, and deliver better, faster and easier services for everyone. Central to the approach is co-production with the citizen. Part of the Scottish Government's Digital Directorate, CivTech's approach is helping transform public sector engagement with tech and innovation, delivering significant benefits to public services, producing genuine uplifts for the Scottish economy - and along the way, making lives better. Across the country there are problems public sector organisations would like to solve and in the current environment the need for smart, efficient and effective products has never been greater. The Scottish Government is aware innovation is a good way to create them and is committed to ensuring a large part of its tech spend goes to smaller, innovative businesses. This is where CivTech comes in. The CivTech Innovation Flow is designed to create products as quickly and effectively as possible, and uses a true Development model at the heart of its Innovation Flow model. For you - whether you're an individual, team or company - it's an opportunity to take on a Challenge, solve it, and win contracts with a blue-chip public sector organisation. You'll build a product, and a business to take it as far as possible. Because here's the kicker: the Challenges we issue aren't 'single organisation' problems - most exist worldwide. CivTech Sprints: open Challenges are set. Any organisation, team or individual can respond to them. Applications are assessed, and shortlisted proposals go into an Exploration Stage to be held between Monday 14th February - Friday 25th February 2022 where they're developed further. The best go through to the MVP Development Stage, to be held between Monday 14th March 2022 - Friday 3rd June 2022 where you will have 12 weeks to work collaboratively with your Challenge Sponsor to develop a Minimum Viable Product. From there may be an opportunity is for further contracts to develop your solution through to a commercially viable solution. Please note that with this Challenge, the opportunity for pre-commercial or follow-on contracts with the Challenge Sponsor, is not only dependent on the suitability and success of the MVP produced during the development stage; the opportunity for further contracts will be dependent on the Challenge Sponsor being able to secure further funding, which is not guaranteed. We welcome all ideas and applications, and particularly encourage proposals that can make the most of the Exploration and Development stages. The above dates are specific to this Challenge and respondent should be able to commit to the dates outlined. Please note this process is separate to the CivTech 6 Cohort of challenges and is working to a separate timescale. Please visit our website for information on CivTech and how to get involved: https://www.civtechalliance.org/civtech-innovation-flow https://www.civtechalliance.org/civtech-6-sprint-evidence-to-deliver-impact

Renewal: Extensions may be required in order to complete the works

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-h6vhtk-02f8e4
Publication Source
Find A Tender Service
Latest Notice
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/028879-2024
Current Stage
Award
All Stages
Tender, Award

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
Tender Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Open
Procurement Method Details
Open procedure
Tender Suitability
Not specified
Awardee Scale
SME

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support


CPV Codes

72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

72224000 - Project management consultancy services

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
£650,000 £500K-£1M
Lots Value
Not specified
Awards Value
Not specified
Contracts Value
£104,000 £100K-£500K

Notice Dates

Publication Date
10 Sep 20241 years ago
Submission Deadline
10 Jan 2022Expired
Future Notice Date
Not specified
Award Date
2 Oct 20223 years ago
Contract Period
Not specified - Not specified
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Complete
Lots Status
Cancelled
Awards Status
Active
Contracts Status
Active

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT
Contact Name
Leigh Syme
Contact Email
leigh.syme@gov.scot
Contact Phone
+44 7423743010

Buyer Location

Locality
GLASGOW
Postcode
G2 8EA
Post Town
Glasgow
Country
Scotland

Major Region (ITL 1)
TLM Scotland
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLM3 West Central Scotland
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLM32 Glasgow City
Delivery Location
TLM Scotland

Local Authority
Glasgow City
Electoral Ward
Anderston/City/Yorkhill
Westminster Constituency
Glasgow North

Supplier Information

Number of Suppliers
1
Supplier Name

PORTF.IO

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